{"id":52591,"date":"2018-05-10T20:14:44","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T03:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/?p=52591"},"modified":"2018-05-10T20:14:44","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T03:14:44","slug":"did-trump-fake-his-bill-of-health-ahead-of-2016-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/did-trump-fake-his-bill-of-health-ahead-of-2016-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Trump Fake His Bill of Health Ahead of 2016 Election?"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump participates in a meeting on trade with governors and members of Congress at the White House, April 12, in Washington, D.C. (Chris Kleponis – Pool\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n

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For long, President Donald Trump has criticized the media for publishing \u201cfake news\u201d about him. Now it has emerged that he may have faked his own bill of health in 2015, ahead of the presidential election.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s former doctor Harold Bornstein has said he did not write a glowing letter in December 2015 declaring the then-Republican presidential candidate\u2019s \u201castonishingly excellent\u201d health, according to a media report.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe dictated that whole letter. I didn\u2019t write that letter,\u201d Bornstein told CNN about 71-year-old Trump, who became the oldest president to be elected in U.S. history.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just made it up as I went along,\u201d Bornstein, a gastroenterologist, best known as Trump\u2019s personal physician for more than three decades, told the network, May 1.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis (Trump\u2019s) physical strength and stamina are extraordinary,\u201d he had crowed in the letter, which was released by Trump\u2019s campaign in December 2015.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency,\u201d Bornstein had said.<\/p>\n

The missive did not offer much medical evidence for those claims beyond citing a blood pressure of 110\/65, described by Bornstein as \u201castonishingly excellent.\u201d It claimed that Trump had lost 15 pounds over the preceding year. And it described his cardiovascular health as \u201cexcellent.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s black humor, that letter. That\u2019s my sense of humor,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s like the movie \u2018Fargo\u2019: It takes the truth and moves it in a different direction.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said Trump read out the language as Bornstein and his wife were driving across Central Park.<\/p>\n

\u201c(Trump) dictated the letter and I would tell him what he couldn\u2019t put in there,\u201d he said. \u201cThey came to pick up their letter at 4 o\u2019clock or something.\u201d<\/p>\n

The White House did not respond to a request for comment about Bornstein\u2019s claim, CNN said.<\/p>\n

It is not clear why Bornstein is making these allegations now.<\/p>\n

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, CNN commented.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ahead of its release, Trump had tweeted that Bornstein\u2019s medical report would show \u201cperfection.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am fortunate to have been blessed with great genes,\u201d Trump wrote on Facebook at the time.<\/p>\n

In January this year Trump had a three-hour examination amid speculation over his mental health.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Bornstein also said that Trump\u2019s ex-bodyguard Keith Schiller had carried out a \u201craid\u201d on his offices in February 2017, removing all of Trump\u2019s medical records.<\/p>\n

The incident happened two days after Bornstein told a newspaper that he had for years prescribed Propecia, a hair growth medicine, for Trump.<\/p>\n

Bornstein told NBC News that he was not given a form authorizing him to release Trump\u2019s records, and that Schiller, along with Trump Organization lawyer Alan Garten, took the originals and copies of Trump\u2019s charts and lab reports, including records filed under pseudonyms.<\/p>\n

The raid left him \u201craped, frightened and sad,\u201d Bornstein said.<\/p>\n

But White House press secretary Sarah Sanders later insisted that the incident was not a raid and that it was \u201cstandard procedure\u201d for the White House Medical Unit to take possession of the president\u2019s medical records.<\/p>\n

Trump has been highly critical of some of the U.S. media outlets for not toeing his line.<\/p>\n

He also instituted \u201cThe Fake News Awards\u201d this year to point out the news outlets he said were responsible for misrepresenting him or producing false reports both before, and during, his presidency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump participates in a meeting on trade with governors and members of Congress at the White House, April 12, in Washington, D.C. (Chris Kleponis – Pool\/Getty Images) For long, President Donald Trump has criticized the media for publishing \u201cfake news\u201d about him. Now it has emerged that he may have faked his own…<\/p>\n

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