Major questions about Trump’s “doctor”, the medical report and even his own health have emerged in recent days. The doctor who wrote his medical report admitted that he did so in 5 minutes while Trump waited outside in a limo.
Let’s explore these issues:
BNR:
BUSTED: Sanjay Gupta Dismantles Trump’s ‘Bizarre’ Medical Letter and Its Mystery Author
Hillary has released a full, professional medical assessment detailing that she “is in excellent physical condition and fit to serve as President of the United States.” Meanwhile, Trump refuses to disclose a similarly detailed medical report, even as he tries to spread false rumors about Hillary’s health.
CNN’s Sanjay Gupta questions Trump’s doctor — Bizarre, questionable
Sanjay Gupta Calls Bullsh*t on Trump’s ‘Questionable’ Doctor and Hyperbolic Letter of Health
Despite the fact that Donald Trump — and his surrogates — have tried to recently put the focus of emphasis squarely onto Hillary Clinton‘s health, the tactic seems to be backfiring in a disastrous way.
Rather than a full-throated investigation into Clinton’s health woes, the media have begun poking holes into a bizarre letter written in December about Trump’s health instead. The letter — from a Dr. Harold Bornstein of New York — reads as if Trump himself blurted out honorifics about his health and had a quack doctor sign his name to it. The deeper that Trump pushes into Clinton’s health questions, it seems that more and more is coming to light about the strange language contained in Bornstein’s letter.
“There are some things in the letter with regards to his qualifications that are questionable,” he continued.
The letter, dated December 4, 2015, firmly states, “If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency,” something Gupta thought was completely off.
This doctor Bornstein is a gastroenterologist, which is a highly unusual source for a candidate’s medical report. Usually the primary physician gives a report about the overall health of the individual. A gastroenterologist knows about the “gut” of the person, not much more.
Then there is also the fact that the medical report was put together in 5 minutes by this “doctor” while waiting for a limo:
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NBCNews:
Trump Doctor Wrote Health Letter in Just 5 Minutes as Limo Waited
Donald Trump's personal physician said he wrote a letter declaring Trump would be the healthiest president in history in just five minutes while a limo sent by the candidate waited outside his Manhattan office.
Dr. Harold Bornstein, who has been the GOP nominee's doctor for 35 years, told NBC News on Friday that he stands by his glowing assessment of the 70-year-old's physical state.
In his letter, Bornstein said there were no "significant medical problems" in Trump's history and that a recent examination "showed only positive results."
"If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency," Bornstein wrote.
Asked how he could justify the hyperbole, Bornstein said, "I like that sentence to be quite honest with you and all the rest of them are either sick or dead."
Bizarre. “Showed only positive results”? “will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency”. Trump wrote this, from the looks of it, the hyperbole in this letter has Trump’s finger prints all over it. “The best ever”. “Believe me, the best”.
The bizarre nature of the letter, and the shady qualifications of the doctor, are also explored in this Newsweek piece:
Newsweek:
DONALD TRUMP TESTS POSITIVE FOR EVERYTHING, ACCORDING TO HIS OWN DOCTOR
On Monday, Trump opined that Hillary Clinton did not have the mental or physical stamina to be president. This was playing off of a conspiracy theory that has been pushed in the conservative media and by Trump supporters for weeks.
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On December 4, 2015, the Trump campaign released…something.
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It purports to be a medical letter, but it is one of the most ridiculous documents ever to emerge in any political campaign. First, the letterhead is in the same font as the letter, which appears to have been created using Microsoft Word. The signature from the doctor is several inches past the signature line—the result you might get if the document had been signed as a blank and filled in later.
Looks to me that Donald Trump had the doc put his signature on a blank sheet, and then he himself wrote the rest.
The letter also has problems with sentence structure and major typographical errors, such as the opening line, “To Whom My Concern.” Most amusing, it says that his medical examination of Trump has “only positive results.” In medical terms, if the test is positive, it confirms the existence of disease. Is this doctor saying Trump has every medical ailment that could be found in examination? Does he not know the meaning of the word? Or, as I suspect, was the letter written by someone in the Trump campaign?
Anyone reading the letter can make a good guess about who that person might be. It says results were “extraordinarily excellent.” (Not a medical term.) It says, “His physical strength and stamina are extraordinary.” (Again, not a medical term.) Then, in the most hilarious, Trump-esque line of all, it says, “If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest person ever elected to the presidency.” In other words, this letter purports to show that a doctor has assessed the health of 43 people he has never examined, including the four who are still alive.
Unbelievable. I think Trump has been caught writing his own medical report here. No doctor, even a gastroenterologist, would write “showed only positive results” (“positive” is BAD, means you HAVE an ailment, “negative” is the right term for no disease, no finding of “something bad”.)
“extraordinarily excellent”
“If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest person ever elected to the presidency.”
Trumpesque hyperbolic language, to be sure.
Another component of this is Trump’s own health. He is 70 years old and why exactly did he not seek a full standard physical evaluation from his doctor, a primary care physician, instead he bizarrely chose his gastroenterologist, a “gut” doctor, who “wrote” the “medical report” in 5 minutes while Trump waited in the limo? As explored above, there are major questions whether this gut doctor even wrote the thing, 5 minutes or not, seeing the strange placement of the signature and the extreme hyperbolic language used.
Red flags everywhere on that stunt.
So, not far fetched to wonder about the why and look at Trump’s own health.
Politicususa:
Questions Grow About Trump’s Health As GOP Nominee Cancels 4th Event This Week
For the fourth time this week, Donald Trump has canceled a planned campaign event. The campaign event that was scheduled for the competitive battleground state of Arizona was canceled and replaced with nothing but thin air.
The Phoenix event has joined the growing list of rallies that Trump has canceled. The Republican nominee has already canceled rallies in Colorado, Nevada, and Oregon.
The cancellation of a string of campaign events comes at the same time as NBC News is reporting that Donald Trump’s doctor did not do a full health evaluation on him. According to NBC, the only medical letter that Trump has released was written by his doctor in five minutes while a limo waited outside. Trump’s doctor stands by the letter that he wrote, but the letter is not the same as medical records or proof of Trump’s physical health.
Donald Trump has tried to make Hillary Clinton’s health and stamina a campaign issue, but it is the Republican nominee who has not released any medical records while canceling events less than three months before Election Day.