Trump Promised to Release His Medical Records. He Still Won't Do It. - The New York Times
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Via: jbb • 8 hours ago • 5 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 ...
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.