Ousted Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin is ripping the “toxic, chaotic, disrespectful and subversive” environment of Washington after being canned by President Trump this week.
“As many of you know, I am a physician, not a politician,” Shulkin wrote in a blistering New York Times op-ed published after his firing. “I came to government with an understanding that Washington can be ugly, but I assumed that I could avoid all of the ugliness by staying true to my values.”
On Wednesday, the president announced plans to replace Shulkin with Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, the White House physician.
In February, the VA's internal watchdog found that Shulkin had improperly accepted Wimbledon tennis tickets and his then-chief of staff had doctored emails to justify his wife traveling to Europe with him at taxpayer expense. Shulkin agreed to reimburse the government more than $4,000 in that case.
But in his op-ed, Shulkin claimed to be the victim of “politically-based attacks.”
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"...I am a physician, not a politician." Why did you accept the job numbnut?
ReplyDeleteFrom here on out, Shulkin's needs to by his pant in the mens section rather than the little boy's area!
The heck with shulkin, he used V.A. money for his personel gain. The money should be for treatment of veterans ,period.
ReplyDeleteHe was a horrible administrator, ask any veteran! All of them that I know were hoping he'd be canned, & are celebrating that he was.
ReplyDeleteHe STOLE money from OUR Veterans. He needed to go!
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