Rep. Ronny Jackson was demoted by Navy after scathing Pentagon review, records show

Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, was quietly demoted by the Navy after a Defense Department inspector general report found he'd engaged in “inappropriate conduct” while serving as the top White House physician for Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, records obtained by NBC News show.

Jackson, who was a rear admiral when he retired from the Navy in 2019, is now listed as a captain, his service record shows.

A spokesperson for the Navy declined to comment on Jackson's rank, but said in a statement to NBC News that the “substantiated allegations in the DoDIG investigation of Rear Adm (lower half) Ronny Jackson are not in keeping with the standards the Navy requires of its leaders and, as such, the Secretary of the Navy took administrative action in July 2022.”

The spokesperson would not elaborate on what the administrative action was. A current defense official and a former U.S. official who spoke on the condition of anonymity told the Washington Post, which first reported the demotion, that it was the reduction in rank.

A spokesperson for Jackson did not immediately respond to NBC News' request for comment. In a page on his congressional website, Jackson still refers to himself as "a retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral with nearly three decades of military service."

Completed in 2021, the inspector general’s review found Jackson drank alcohol, made sexual comments to subordinates and took the sedative Ambien while working as White House physician. It also found he mistreated subordinates and “disparaged, belittled, bullied and humiliated them.”

Jackson pushed back against the findings, telling reporters Democrats were “using this report to repeat and rehash untrue attacks on my integrity” because "I have refused to turn my