United States: sleeping pills and stimulants handed out like candy at the White House
The
Washington Post
reveals this Sunday, February 18 that the medical team of the American presidency under Obama and Trump provided drugs at all costs. According to an internal investigation at the Pentagon, the American Department of Defense, a man was at the heart of this system: Ronny Jackson, a Republican elected official very close to Donald Trump.
Ronny Jackson at the White House (archive image). AFP
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In the corridors of the White House, he was nicknamed "Candyman" or "Dr. Feelgood", the "candy dispenser" or doctor "I'm better". Ronny Jackson had a habit of giving drugs without a prescription and to employees who were not allowed to do so. The former US Navy doctor himself acknowledges this in his memoirs: “
Everyone who worked there was my patient
”.
Practices now stopped
Sleeping pills, stimulants... Ronny Jackson was very generous with his pharmacy, especially to the most powerful people in the entourage of the presidents he served. After the departure of Barack Obama, he was openly pro-Trump. It was he who praised the
ex-president's “
good genes
” at the time when he was attacked over his health.
In a press release, the Pentagon affirms that this type of practice no longer exists. Ronny Jackson has been well rewarded for his services: he was elected Republican deputy in 2020. He is today one of Donald Trump's most fervent supporters. And he never misses an opportunity to ask Joe Biden to take tests on his mental abilities.
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