Exclusive: Bornstein claims Trump dictated the glowing health letter

[ET Awful]

Source: 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.

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Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/01/politics/harold-bornstein-trump-letter/index.html

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Hope this isn't a dupe. I could've sworn we all said this a while back

[jpak]

1. This is what we elect to POTUS

dystopia is here.

yup

[marble falls]

2. Now he wants to rat cheetolini out.

[yallerdawg]

3. It's still kind of shocking...

when any of this cast of amoral liars actually admit the truth on occasion.

[ButSeeYa]

4. What fresh hell are we living in?

[left-of-center2012]

5. The raid on this doctor's office reminds me of Nazi Germany

We have a Hitler wannabe in the White House.

[GusBob]

6. Lies about his health, his wealth, cheats on his wife, steals from contractors

He is proud he fucked them porn stars, it's something he don't have to lie about

[exboyfil]

51. And he is the second coming of Cyrus

For the Evangelicals.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. At the time there was much RW nonsense about Hillary at death's door. So many suckers believed it.nt

[mpcamb]

8. It was all written in 'trump-speak'- bombastic 8th grade superlatives! Why did the press swallow it?

No medical professional would ever have written that swill.
The wording was straight out of Bozo's campaign speeches.
How could that pass without raising a question?
Granted, he lies at a very rapid rate, but this was supposed to be a professional opinion.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Why? Profit. Media thought they were safe pumping up underdog keeping race close. . . nt

[catrose]

36. And I remember people on this site suggesting that T wrote it himself

Somehow I don't feel the glee of being right

[Dave Starsky]

46. It was obvious to anyone that Dipshit had written it.

Well, anyone except for the goddamn useless US news media, who accepted it without question.

[catrose]

47. Exactly!

I keep wondering if they're really that stupid, or they're just pretending.

[lagomorph777]

52. It was pretty obviously Turd's words at the time.

I have always assumed that. Same with Ronny Jackson's glowing review.

[Girard442]

9. So, if Trump's health reports from Bornstein and Jackson were dictated by him...

...what would a real report on Trump's health look like?

[mpcamb]

18. Let's measure and weigh him for starters. Obama's 6' 2 1/2". He towers over (Hah!) 6'3" trump.

His 46" waist puts him a high risk for coronary artery disease.
All his numbers are lies.
Like his crowd estimates.

[Girard442]

19. The man is a walking Potemkin Village.

[lagomorph777]

53. Nice wordcraft!

[smb]

49. I Honestly Don't Understand...

...how he's lasted this long without having a heart attack or stroke during one of his temper tantrums.

[Rorey]

21. I doubt he had a physical.

He sure as hell didn't step on the scale.

[NanceGreggs]

10. Who didn't know this all along?

And yes, it was discussed here and elsewhere at the time it was released.

Anyone who read it (other than the idiots in the MSM) recognized immediately that the language used was Trump's own.

In addition, medical practitioners who opined on the letter at the time pointed out that Bornstein used terms and phrases that no (legit) doctor would use.

[LoveMyCali]

25. Seriously

To begin with all of his tests were positive? I'm not a doctor nor do I play one on TV but I know enough to hope for negative results when they test for serious illness.

[NanceGreggs]

32. Exactly.

I was just discussing this with my son, and pointed out that Dr. Bornstein stated that all of Trump's test results were positive.

My son replied, "You mean the tests for VD, herpes, dementia, morbid obesity, and mental incompetence? Yeah, I've no doubt they all came back 'positive'."

[catrose]

48. HA HA HA HA

Your son is smart. Must take after his parents.

[Chemisse]

44. We all knew it instantly.

And it's an embarrassment and a disgrace that the MSM didn't shred it to pieces.

[BigmanPigman]

11. Apparently he is not in extraordinary health

and doesn't have astonishing stamina. In fact, his health is probably not so great. The doctor said that the moron's people called him and said he would no longer be the moron's doctor right after he told the world that the only meds he takes is a prostate medication that grows hair as a side effect. I had a doctor's appointment today so I asked my doctor about this and he said that this is all illegal (breaking and entering, HIPAA rules and guidelines, threatening him, going through other people's files in order to find the moron's, etc.) and he said that the medicine DOES grow hair.

[vlyons]

12. Wait a minute. Let me put on my shocked and surprised face

[still_one]

13. As a physician he should have never signed it uless he agreed with it

[C Moon]

15. A strange thing to do in the middle of a term.

I wonder what they are up to.

[RhodeIslandOne]

16. No shit

[dchill]

23. ", Sherlock."

[rpannier]

17. Pretty much everyone knew that when it first came out

Kind of like Dr. Pillshill's exam report on il douche was also written to appease his highny-ness

[More_Cowbell]

20. Sarah Palin did the same thing, released her own medical letter

The night before the election. It was copied crookedly on the doctor's letterhead. It had the birth year wrong for Piper.

http://palingates.blogspot.com/2011/04/sarah-palins-medical-records-too-much.html

Must be a Republican thing.

eta: I tried to find just a copy of the letter, with no commentary, but the places that had archived it (like the LA Times, originally) no longer have it.

[Happyhippychick]

22. Well doc what does this say about you?

[Paladin]

24. Suspicions confirmed. (nt)

[onecaliberal]

26. In other news water is wet.

[GeorgeGist]

27. Old news.

To anyone with a functioning brain.

[cstanleytech]

28. Wait, is this letter considered an official government document and could Donald

now be charged with falsifying government documents?

[Brianhrvey]

29. License

Can’t he lose his medical license over this?

[no_hypocrisy]

30. No surprise here.

The letter had the word choice, tenor, and cadence of Donald Trump. It was obvious.

[Gothmog]

31. Who is surprised by this?

[33taw]

33. Why did he sign it? My guess - money. Two years too late.

[SergeStorms]

35. I imagine.......

Trump's bodyguard "suggested" he sign it, under penalty of broken legs.

[BobTheSubgenius]

34. I didn't believe it for a second.

Doctors don't describe their patient's health as being "super-duper" or "peachy."

[Enoki33]

37. Shocked the hell out of me when Rachel and the NBC reporter

who broke the story disclosed that TRump’s medical records illegally seized by the goons were under a pseudonym. Wonder why?

[Firestorm49]

38. There's something wrong here.

If, in fact, Bornstein’s office was raided by three characters without credentials or a subpoena, why didn’t Bornstein or someone from his office call the police. Something stinks.

[Still In Wisconsin]

39. And while we're at it no EFFING WAY Trump is the 6'3" 239# he claims to be.

Here's a SI article that shows guys who are about the size TRUMP claims to be:

LULZ!


https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2018/01/16/donald-trump-height-weight-tim-tebow-mike-trout

[rury]

40. I always thought that crap

originated with Don The Con.

[dalton99a]

41. Kick

[FailureToCommunicate]

42. But but he LOOKS like an honest doctor...

[smb]

50. He Looks Like The Nutty Professor Brent Spiner Played In "Independence Day" nt

[FailureToCommunicate]

54. "As you can imagine, they don't let us out much..."

[Hugin]

43. Well, this explains why there was no mention of the clockwork orange's...

Obvious Neurosyphilis.

Why the revelation now? Is someone threatening to yank Dr. Waterwand's license?

[truthisfreedom]

45. So he admits to being a dr feelgood quack.

WTF else is he saying here? If shitler wrote his own health reports, he certainly wrote his own prescriptions.

[duforsure]

55. If his goons

Were instructed to do this without the proper signed documents they broke the law, and at the request of a sitting president, which is another charge that he'll have to defend.

[Gothmog]

56. Who is surprised by this?