Trump Promised to Release His Medical Records. He Still Won't Do It. - The New York Times
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Via: jbb • one month ago • 77 commentsBy: Emily Baumgaertner and Maggie Haberman (nytimes)
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If elected again, he would become the oldest president by the end of his term. Yet he is refusing to disclose even basic health information.
Former President Donald J. Trump told CBS News in August that he would "very gladly" release his medical records to the public after President Biden dropped out of the race.Credit...Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times
By Emily Baumgaertner and Maggie Haberman
Oct. 3, 2024Leer en espanol
As a presidential candidate in 2015, Donald J. Trump declined to release his medical records, instead offering a four-paragraph letter from his personal doctor proclaiming that he would be "the healthiest person ever elected to the presidency."
In 2020, when he was hospitalized with Covid and running for re-election, Mr. Trump's doctors gave minimal information about his condition, which, it emerged later, was far more dire than their public descriptions let on.
In 2024, days before becoming the official Republican presidential nominee for the third time, he was grazed by a would-be assassin's bullet, yet his campaign did not hold a briefing on his condition, release hospital records or make the emergency physicians who treated him available for interview.
Now, just over a month from an election that could make Mr. Trump, 78, the oldest person ever to serve as president (82 years, 7 months and 6 days when his term would end in January 2029), he is refusing to release even the most basic information about his health.
If he wins, Mr. Trump could enter the Oval Office with an array of potentially worrisome issues, medical experts say: cardiac risk factors, possible aftereffects from the July assassination attempt and the cognitive decline that naturally comes with age, among others.
Age became a major point of concern for voters weighing the capabilities of President Biden, and a poor debate performance that showcased him struggling to articulate sentences ultimately forced him to withdraw from the race. Suddenly facing an opponent nearly 20 years his junior, Mr. Trump told CBS News in August that he would "very gladly" release his medical records to the public, saying he had recently had a medical exam.
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Trump's mental and physical health is collapsing in front of our eyes!
no medical document needed for proof that he's a sick fuck ...
A really demented stupid sick fuck...
He nodded off in front of his rally tonight!
I saw that somewhere but thought it was from an older event. He's exhausted. Non-stop hate tires a person. It's physically and emotionally draining.
Looks like he's prepping for Dancing With Duds 'N Dodos.
Have you ever had a video of Biden doing this at 78?
Doing what?
Maybe you should look at the post I responded to. That will probably help you. s/
Standing up? Doing a little dance?
Not hard to do at 78 or any age I imagine.
Is that supposed to be some sort of accomplishment at 78?
OK....Biden is 81. Do you have a video of him doing this at 78? JBB seems not to have one where he is able to do what Trump is doing.
trump's age is the same as his IQ now ...
That sounds about right - uneducable, mentally retarded
or at 81?
.....not running for president.
Biden still rides a bike and runs at 81, can't trump even spell, "bike"?
lol, they think he is
You mean cutting a Q&A town hall meeting short by 40 minutes just to play lame music and prove that he can't dance? Nope, don't recall Biden ever doing that.
how soon they forget
I got KC and the Sunshine Band in my head:
"Do a little dance! Make a little love! Get down tonight!"
Whenever he lowers his arms like that-- and then moves both hands side to side and back and forth, -- it makes me think he's imagining he's got two nude men, one on either side-- and he's imagining he's jerking them off!
he's playing the invisible maga squeezebox, which is a "tell" for lying thru his teeth ....
that's hilarious - I heard it described as 'accordion hands' or something like that - which is so spot on
also whenever he opens his mouth
Crooked Donald is a damn liar who is playing the Right-wing into the ground. Trumpists are so content to try and ruin their fellow citizenry that they are not even noticing the greedy "mouthy' LIAR that is eating all their brand "alive."
Crooked Donald has not changed much at all since 2016. The GOP can not say the same. It is unrecognizable at this point!
"Breaking News" - CNN SEARCH FOR TRUMP "Swiss-made" watch origin leads to a shopping center in Northern Wyoming
(Told you. And this kind of lying will only get worse if Crooked Donald is put 'in charge' of the world ever again!)
Actually he has-- his mental health has gotten worse with age. With age his mental health has gotten worse-- more and more he forgets theings he should remember.....
Crooked Donald has not forgotten how to lie or remembered how to tell the truth.
Its not a question of whether or not he has "forgotten" how to lie. After all, lying isn't all that difficult (if one is inclined to be a frequent liar).
All you have to do is decide what you want people to believe-- and then keep saying it!
(Of course thekey to sucess if have a large enough group of people that are fanatic fans-- and believe everything you say!
A seedy guy walks up to you on the street and whispers "pssst, hey buddy want to buy a Rolex?"
Called my long-time Rolex mechanic at Tivol the other day and he said that he had stripped one down and that the Trump watch was a cheaply made watch favored by Russian and Chinese scam artists that usually say Rolex on the face.
Does Trump have no shame whatsoever? Everything he sells, including himself, is worthless!
If you what you have shared is true - t's a shame. The damnedest of shame, because trumpists are betting their time, energy, lives. . . and money on Crooked Donald doing right by them if not by liberals. They are his 'buying' public. That is, they are his target audience for his products, goods, and services. . . and he shows them what the thinks of them by selling them (in this specific case) fake watches wildly and exorbitantly priced.
Crooked Donald is a 'monster' without any redeeming value. Just imagine, a former leader of the country, thinks so less of those who supported him in the past. . . and he hopes to support him in the upcoming election. . . that while the campaign is still ongoing he risk selling them 'sucker-ism' and making marks out them.
A continuous stream of reasons for why Crooked Donald is unfit to lead this great nation and its ever greater/better people.
At the end of the day, the youth of tomorrow don't deserve to have to undo the damages Crooked Donald plans for us all 'today.'
If you doubt me do your own research.
Friend Cjcold, I don't doubt it. NP.
BTW, it is pretty 'telling' when we have a former president so 'thirsty' for gain that he would sell knock-offs to his supporters, fans, and rich friends and take their wealth for it. There is no honor in doing this, unless it is between thieves.
Does Trump have no shame whatsoever?
silly goose
Where have you been? He's a lifelong conman grifter thug thief. Of course, those watches are knockoffs.
He's been doing this shit his whole 'campaign'
Where is that a requirement?
Hilarious that all of the accusations of Trump of alleged mental and physical decline started after it was impossible to hide what was really happening physically and mentally to Biden.
The left believes that since it worked with Biden (because it was true), then maybe it would work with Trump (it won't).
So you won't be voting for Biden, cool, me either.
This may come as a shock to some people...but many candidates have won because they mentioned various powerful things that were not actually required by law-- but still had an extremely powerful impact!
(I'm surprised that many people don't actually know that!)
Sorry. Still don't see the requirement.
I [✘] would like to know that my vote would last for a month or two.
Trump says Kamala can't be president because she has seasonal hay fever. Hell! Pretty much EVERYBODY has it to a certain degree. Benadryl is my drug of choice!
As a long-time paramedic I can just look at Trump and tell that he is a heart attack just waiting to happen. His lifestyle, diet and obesity are setting him up for a big AMI.
(Hey Mal I'm single, handsome and wealthy. Lets get together).
if elected, he would never finish his term ...
And exactly what does ANY of that have to do that have to do with my comment?
If he's elected I bet a dollar that he gets 25th amendmended
I'm thinking those that want to see the ordeal done in a fraction of a second outnumber those that are willing to wait for it to go thru the justice system. my money is on a military member taking one for the team.
Both Trump and all of his minions need to check themselves in to a mental care facility. Fascism is a disease.
Weren't you complaining that Biden was too old and not healthy enough to serve a 2nd term? Why doesn't that pertain to 78 year old Trump who is clearly having physical and mental issues?
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Does "keeping up" mean ignore everything that was previously said in MAGA terms? Were displaying birth certificates mandatory?
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Anyone who has seen or heard Trump recently, and is honest about it, can only come to the conclusion that he is an obese, unhealthy, demented and rapidly declining elderly man (not to mention a lying sack of shit and, as Gen. Milley accurately stated, a fascist to the core) who has no business running for President of the United States. Of course he won't release his medical records. They would undoubtely confirm he's a mess, although maybe he'll release them when he releases his health care plan but don't hold your breath.
But Bidennnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL
Still waiting for him to release his financials as well.
Have to assume his financials are as bad as his body.
the only info trump wants made available is what fails out the biggest hole on his lying face ...
Maybe he's concerned the medical report will indicate he has no bone spurs in his feet/ankles. But then, what difference would another lie make to his sheep anyway?
We do know that beside his physical condition that his mental condition is, ‘’weird’’.
you'd think that finding a maga Dr to fake a medical document would be as easy as finding a thumper to justify trump's blasphemy ...
Whether some folks like it or not, there is no law in this country that states presidential candidates or serving president's are required to release their private medical records/information to the public.
We know that, the point is that he broke yet another promise/lied yet again.
Politicians of all stripes break promises routinely. It is the nature of the beast that is politics.
He's not a politician though. lol. He never keeps any promise except to those who 'donate' to his campaign like Musk
Anybody who holds or seeks to hold public office is a politician by default. It goes with the territory.
Ed, we want our presidents to play 'nice' with us as their constituents and not use tactics, schemes, and strategies which lead them to lying and deceitfulness with the citizenry. We are so entitled to want good things from those we elect to lead us. . . even when we don't vote for them upfront. Ultimately, at the end of the day. . .our national community is ONE. It is not a version of "survival of the fittest." At least, it should not be so. Because that would mean 'raw capitalism' and acceptance of rank oppression for those not in power. We are a nation of immigrants trying to become one as a people. Moreover, we have a rule of law, customs, protocols, that work when we let them do so that we agree to follow.
The problem being, for better or worse, is that presidents just don't have that much power.
Do you want to make the Imperial Presidency even more powerful?
A certain far right wing orange fascist would.
I'd prefer a bit more balance.
How ever the campaign traditions are pretty powerful. If candidate A goes to a State Fair, candidate B is expected to do the same. It started with financials, now as we were dealing with the two oldest candidates ever it is appropriate to know Trumps base lines without Ronnie Jackson lying for Trump.
The current White House doctor gave both Biden and Harris clean bills of health but we chose to believe
the inuendo in an unrelated report by a special prosecutor who declined to prosecute Biden.
Bottom line is that Trump is the only modern candidate who has refused to surrender Medical Exams, financial reports and tax returns.
Seems that Kamala is in perfect health other than a bit of seasonal hay fever (which most of us suffer from).
Benadryl is my friend.
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And yes, Biden continues to ride his mountain bike every day.
Doubt Trump could even mount one.
he had a car and driver before he ever had a bike...
It’s probably disclosure of his micropenis condition that worries him the most.
he just signed arnold palmer up as an organ donor ...
He and most of maga went through their lives feeling so cheated.