Remember the 2015 letter from Trump’s hippie doctor that suggested he was in “astonishingly excellent”? Well it turns out hippie doc didn’t actually write the letter:
CNN – When Dr. Harold Bornstein described in hyperbolic prose then-candidate Donald Trump’s health in 2015, the language he used was eerily similar to the style preferred by his patient.
It turns out the patient himself wrote it, according to Bornstein.
“He dictated that whole letter. I didn’t write that letter,” Bornstein told CNN on Tuesday. “I just made it up as I went along.”
The admission is an about face from his answer more than two years when the letter was released and answers one of the lingering questions about the last presidential election. The letter thrust the eccentric Bornstein, with his shoulder-length hair and round eyeglasses, into public view.
“His physical strength and stamina are extraordinary,” he crowed in the letter, which was released by Trump’s campaign in December 2015. “If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.”
The missive didn’t offer much medical evidence for those claims beyond citing a blood pressure of 110/65, described by Bornstein as “astonishingly excellent.” It claimed Trump had lost 15 pounds over the preceding year. And it described his cardiovascular health as “excellent.”
He said Trump read out the language as Bornstein and his wife were driving across Central Park.
“(Trump) dictated the letter and I would tell him what he couldn’t put in there,” he said. “They came to pick up their letter at 4 o’clock or something.”
The White House didn’t respond to a request for comment about Bornstein’s claim.
All of you are shocked into silence, right? LOL, of course this is no big surprise from the man who would say almost anything to get elected.
This is making the rounds now because Trump had his former doc’s office raided last year after Bornstein revealed to a journalist that Trump was using Propecia to stimulate hair growth. Bornstein had said he wanted to be Trump’s White House doctor, but once he broke doctor/patient confidentiality, that was the end of that.
So I guess this is his way of getting back at Trump.