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Ronny Jackson 'Bullied' Subordinates And Broke Alcohol Rules, Pentagon Report Finds

During a presidential trip, the report says, the former White House physician made inappropriate comments about a female subordinate, then got drunk and banged on her door in the middle of the night.
Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, failed to "treat subordinates with dignity and respect" while he was a White House physician, a Pentagon report states. The inspector general's office says Jackson also made sexual and denigrating statements about a female subordinate.

Rep. Ronny Jackson made sexual and denigrating statements about a female subordinate, smelled of alcohol while on duty, and humiliated his staff during his long stint as a White House physician, according to a scathing new report from the Defense Department's inspector general.

In one incident, the report states that when Jackson was on

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