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The Latest: Trump wants Tester to quit over VA nominee role

FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2018 file photo, Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., arrives for voting at the Capitol in Washington. With a flat-top haircut, three missing fingers and a quite-wide girth, Tester has somehow kept a low profile in Congress. Then he caught the attention of Americans, and President Donald Trump, with startling allegations that toppled Veterans Administration nominee Ronny Jackson. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2018 file photo, Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., arrives for voting at the Capitol in Washington. With a flat-top haircut, three missing fingers and a quite-wide girth, Tester has somehow kept a low profile in Congress. Then he caught the attention of Americans, and President Donald Trump, with startling allegations that toppled Veterans Administration nominee Ronny Jackson. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2018 file photo, Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., arrives for voting at the Capitol in Washington. With a flat-top haircut, three missing fingers and a quite-wide girth, Tester has somehow kept a low profile in Congress. Then he caught the attention of Americans, and President Donald Trump, with startling allegations that toppled Veterans Administration nominee Ronny Jackson. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

By Associated Press 2 min read

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Latest on White House doctor Ronny Jackson’s withdrawal from consideration to be secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs (all times local):

9:05 a.m.

How angry is President Donald Trump at the Democratic senator who went public with what Trump says are baseless allegations that derailed his Veterans Affairs nominee?

So angry that Trump says Montana’s Jon Tester “should resign.”

The White House says internal records raise doubt about some of the most serious allegations against White House doctor Ronny Jackson, who withdrew his nomination Thursday.