The New Yorker:

Since the beginning of his Presidential campaign, in 2015, Donald Trump has claimed that helping America’s military veterans is one of his highest priorities. “We will take care of our great veterans like they have never been taken care of before,” he said, at the Republican National Convention, in 2016. Last August, he claimed that his Administration was following through on his promise. “You see what’s been happening,” he told the national convention of the American Legion. “Now you have a true reformer in [Veterans Affairs] Secretary David Shulkin. He’s done an incredible job.”

Shulkin, a seasoned medical administrator who used to run New York’s Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center, had done such incredible work that, last month, Trump decided to fire him, and replace him with his White House physician, Ronny Jackson, a U.S. Navy medic who has no experience running a large organization but does have experience giving the President a glowing medical report. Ostensibly, the reason that Trump got rid of Shulkin was because he became embroiled in a scandal after using public money to take his wife with him on a trip to Europe. But, as I pointed out at the time, the back story was that Trump got played by a group of conservative insiders who were annoyed at Shulkin’s resistance to the privatization agenda that right-wing think tanks and Republican donors have been pushing for years.

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