The man pictured above is Dr. Harold Bornstein. Prior to the 2016 election, he was Donald Trump’s personal physician, a title that, if I’m not mistaken, he had held for several decades. He was, if you’ll recall, the man who put our collective mind at ease back in December, 2015, when he announced that, despite what our eyes might had told us, Donald Trump was a physical specimen the likes of which mankind rarely sees. “His physical strength and stamina are extraordinary,” Bornstein said in his public report on Trump’s health. “If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.”
Well, as it turns out, Bornstein didn’t write that letter. In an interview with CNN this afternoon, the doctor – who looks to me like Bruce Vilanch playing Dr. Lawrence Jacoby in a community theater production of Twin Peaks – said that Trump “dictated that whole letter.”
And here’s the crazy thing. This isn’t even Bornstein’s most shocking reveal over the past 24 hours, as, prior to talking with CNN, he let it be known that, this past February – two days after he’d told a newspaper that he’d prescribed a hair growth medication for his former patient – his office was raided by three men, who absconded with Trump’s medical records. These men, according to Bornstein, were Trump’s long-time bodyguard Keith Schiller, Trump Organization attorney Alan Garten, and a third unidentified and intimidating “large man.”
White House smokey-eyed spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders said today that this was nothing out of the ordinary. It was just “standard operating procedure,” she said.
Sadly, I think Sanders is probably right about this being standard operating procedure… maybe not for a president of the United States, but certainly for a low-level mob boss the likes of Donald Trump.
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Totally normal. Name one president who hasn’t sent enforcers to strong arm doctors out of patient medical records.
The doctor felt raped when Trump sent an attorney and two other men to the doctor’s office, to get Trump’s medical records, two days after the doctor told media sources about a medical (hair loss) treatment he had been giving Trump? The doctor was blabbing illegally (?) about Trump. Why wouldn’t Trump demand his own private records to be handed over when that trust was broken?
I think simply asking for the records might suffice, but sending “muscle” to retrieve them is what mob bosses do, not Presidential candidates.
It won’t be so amusing when Trump sends his private goons to raid the FBI, or the Justice Department, or CNN …
Who can forget that time when Obama sent Van Jones, flanked by a pair of imposing armed men, into the administrative offices of Columbia University to secure his academic records?
Obama sent his dance troupe/private army instead.
Female employee who works for Dr. Bornstein says she was in the office alone at 7AM & called the doctor to tell him she was scared because 3 men were here.
https://twitter.com/nickiknowsnada/status/991677505215041536
Washington Post: “Trump’s medical deceptions should be a scandal”
Read more:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/05/02/trumps-medical-deceptions-should-be-a-scandal/
Of course, the Trump supporters refuse to believe that their guy could at all be unscrupulous despite having made a brand out of it over the course of decades.