SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VA: “The chairman of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee refused Monday [4-30-18] to agree with President Donald Trump’s criticism of the panel’s top Democrat, Sen. Jon Tester of Montana, nor the President’s call for the Montana Democrat to resign in the wake of the Dr. Ronny Jackson scandal. ‘I’m not in the critiquing business,’ Sen. Johnny Isakson, a Georgia Republican, told reporters in the Capitol after overseeing a short pro-forma session of the Senate, which is otherwise recessed…Isakson said that since Jackson had withdrawn his nomination to be veterans affairs secretary, the committee is no longer investigating allegations about the White House doctor and problems at the White House Medical Office. Asked if he thought they were true, Isakson pointed to a letter he and Tester sent to the White House last week seeking information about the charges and noted that the White House never responded to it.”
–Ted Barrett, “Sen. Isakson distances himself from Trump’s attack on Tester,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, April 30, 2018 6:14 pm