Past allegations led to a pointed statement from a congressman “briefly detained” Saturday when attempting to render aid to a young girl having a medical emergency.
Serving much of the Texas panhandle since being elected to Congress in 2020, Rep. Ronny Jackson (R) is well-known for his critiques of President Joe Biden’s cognitive state as well as for taking a blowtorch to The Science™ on COVID shots and the origin of the virus.
However, the physician who served three presidential administrations, including as doctor to Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, came under fire after an apparent misunderstanding at a rodeo positioned him on the wrong side of the law in a “very loud and chaotic environment.”
With congressional recess underway, lawmakers returned to their districts and Jackson was attending the White Deer Rodeo on Saturday outside Amarillo, Texas when he reportedly was sought for assistance as an unidentified girl was experiencing an undisclosed medical emergency, according to a statement provided to the Texas Tribune.
As explained by a spokesperson from the representative’s office, a concert was underway during the annual event when Jackson was “summoned by someone in the crowd to assist a 15-year-old girl who was having a medical emergency nearby.”
“While assessing the patient in a very loud and chaotic environment, confusion developed with law enforcement on the scene and Dr. Jackson was briefly detained and was actually prevented from further assisting the patient,” the statement said after the Texas congressman had found the girl being helped by a relative who happened to be a nurse who accepted his offer of help while there were “no uniformed EMS providers on the scene at the time.”
Carson County Sheriff Tam Terry confirmed that an individual was “temporarily detained” but did not go into further details while his department was “reviewing the incident” and Jackson’s spokesperson noted, “He was immediately released as soon as law enforcement realized that he, as a medical professional, was tending to the young girl’s medical emergency.”
Speculation about the incident was heightened by the fact that the statement made note that the legislator was, “in the stands during the entire rodeo, in full view of the assembled crowd, and was not drinking.”
I heard a rumor that our esteemed representative, Ronnie Jackson, was maybe arrested this past weekend at the White Deer rodeo…I’m guessing public intoxication or something similar. @JackieKingston1 ?
— Kimmy (@kimmyshay) July 31, 2023
He was drunk or high. EMS told him to get back because of it. I guarantee he was impaired.
— Mr. International (@andywhite4321) July 31, 2023
The fact that his official statement includes “in the stands during the entire rodeo, in full view of the assembled crowd, and was not drinking.” tells me that he was for sure seeming impaired to the law enforcement.
— Brett Spalding (@brettspalding) July 31, 2023
Worth noting, the White Deer Rodeo is billed as a BYOB event, but that didn’t prevent old allegations to resurface for the former White House physician.
In 2018, Jackson had stepped away from a nomination to be the secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs after Montana Sen. Jon Tester (D) had released a two-page document alleging the doctor not only over-prescribed medication, but drank excessively while on the job.
Ronny Jackson will not be returning to his old job as Trump’s doctor https://t.co/3Ssm3j3fJk pic.twitter.com/dprXhB9hLX
— BizPac Review (@BIZPACReview) April 30, 2018
Additionally, in 2021 a 37-page Department of Defense report was released with the findings of an inspector general who had looked into claims that Jackson had behaved inappropriately while traveling with Obama on a presidential trip to Manila, Philippines in 2014. The report mentioned “alcohol” 56 times as the doctor was accused of drinking, taking sleeping pills and making comments about a female colleague’s figure.
“Democrats are using this report to repeat and rehash untrue attacks on my integrity,” he had said at the time of its release.
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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