Donald Trump dictated his own health report, says his former doctor

New York doctor Harold Bornstein told CNN that Mr. Trump “dictated that whole letter. I didn’t write that letter”.

U.S. President Donald Trump listens to Oval Office operations director Keith Schiller at the White House on June 12, 2017. Mr. Trump’s former doctor, Harold Bornstein, said on May 1, 2018, that a bodyguard visited his Park Avenue office on February 3, 2017, and confiscated the President’s medical records. The doctor identified Mr. Schiller as the bodyguard, who until September 2017 worked at the White House as operations director.

As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump quoted a letter from his former personal doctor gushing about his apparently excellent health — a note the physician now says the President “dictated” himself. Speaking to CNN on Tuesday, New York doctor Harold Bornstein said Mr. Trump “dictated that whole letter. I didn’t write that letter”. “I just made it up as I went along.”

‘Healthiest candidate’

In December 2015, the Trump campaign released the glowing missive which said that “if elected, Mr Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency ”.

Mr. Bornstein’s new comments come as the physician finds himself back in the spotlight after he told NBC that a bodyguard visited his Park Avenue office last year and confiscated Mr. Trump’s medical records.

“They must have been here for 25 or 30 minutes. It created a lot of chaos,” Mr. Bornstein told NBC, saying the February 3, 2017 incident made him feel “frightened and sad”.

Mr. Bornstein said the original and only copy of Mr. Trump’s medical charts, including lab reports, were taken. But White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said the incident was “standard procedure”.