Arthur J. Villasanta – Fourth Estate Contributor
Washington, DC, United States (4E) – The confession by Dr. Harold Bornstein (former private doctor to Donald Trump) that the latter — and never he — wrote the absurdly flattering evaluation of Trump’s well being in 2015 raises doubts a few equally fulsome ranking of Trump’s well being by the White House doctor, Dr. Ronny Jackson.
If each “medical” assessments are pretend information, the query now could be “How healthy really is Donald Trump?”
Trump fired Dr. Bornstein as his private doctor in February after the latter gave an interview stating Trump has for years used a prescription hair progress drugs to maintain from going bald. Dr. Bornstein, a gastroenterologist, had been Trump’s private doctor since 1980.
In response to questions on his well being, Trump in December 2015 instructed Dr. Bornstein to concern a “full medical report” saying it ought to present his “perfection.” Dr. Bornstein two days later signed a letter stuffed with superlatives, saying Trump’s “laboratory results are astonishingly excellent” and that Trump “will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.”
The Trump marketing campaign bragged concerning the four-paragraph letter, which stated Trump’s “health is excellent, especially his mental health.” The letter additionally stated that “If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.”
In August 2016, nonetheless, Dr. Bornstein recanted this model and stated he had written the letter in 5 minutes whereas a automotive waited for it. Yesterday (May 1), nonetheless, Dr. Bornstein lastly got here clear, and admitted Trump really dictated the letter himself over the telephone, after which despatched a automotive to choose it up.
“He dictated that whole letter. I didn’t write that letter. I just made it up as I went along,” stated Dr. Bornstein.
His falling out with Trump seems to have been triggered by a raid on his workplace by Trump’s safety chief final February. Dr. Bornstein stated that on the morning of Feb. three, Trump’s long-time bodyguard, Keith Schiller; the Trump Organization’s chief authorized officer Alan Garten and one other man barged into his Manhattan workplace, eradicating all the president’s medical data. The incident, Bornstein stated, left him feeling “raped, frightened and sad.”
“They must have been here for 25 or 30 minutes. It created a lot of chaos,” recounted Dr. Bornstein.
On Feb. 1, Dr. Bornstein had instructed a reporter that Trump makes use of a prescription hair progress drugs to maintain from going bald. He stated Trump fired him after the raid on his workplace.
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