Posted on 07/22/2024 4:31:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
After weeks of intense focus on President Biden’s health and age that ended with his withdrawal from the campaign on Sunday, the script has flipped: Former president Donald Trump is now the oldest presidential candidate in history — and one who has been less transparent about his medical condition than his former opponent.
Trump, a 78-year-old with a history of heart disease and obesity, according to experts, has not shared any updated bloodwork results or other specific information during this campaign to help experts assess his ongoing medical risks.
Instead, he has released a vague, three-paragraph letter from his primary care physician, Bruce A. Aronwald, who wrote in November that the former president was in excellent physical and mental health, and who later said in a statement released by campaign officials to The Washington Post that “there is no need for President Trump to release another medical report in addition to the one he recently made public.”
Seven days after the attempted assassination against him on July 13, Trump released a letter from his former White House physician, Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Tex.), who described treating a two-centimeter-wide wound to Trump’s right ear and said he had a CT scan of his head and other tests but did not release the results. Jackson said in the letter that Trump was initially treated by the medical staff at Butler Memorial Hospital in Butler, Pa., and that he saw the former president later that night at the Trump’s golf course in Bedminster, N.J. Jackson, who is one of Trump’s most loyal supporters, did not respond to a request for comment. A hospital spokesman could not be immediately reached for comment.
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No they’re not. This is just Desperate Democrats trying anything possible to give their cackling simpleton of a candidate a chance. She has none.
Laughable.
AS USUAL THE WP IS FULL OF BS.
Securitize away. Every President should be vetted mentally and physically. Trump appears fit and able.
Of COURSE bhe did! :-)i
Post is a fake news outlet.
“You Betcha,”
The leading sentence is a lie. Didn’t Biden start at 81 and DJT is 78 now?
Have I missed something ?
I think they are right. Trump didn’t look well when he giving that fist pump shouting fight, fight, fight, after being shot in the head..........he didn’t look well. :)
Where did this “heart disease” and “obesity” come from? First I’ve heard of it. This is just one of those “facts” that are made up in somebody’s imagination, expecting it to be taken up and repeated until nobody questions it.
A heart problem are not what is going to eventually kill Donald Trump, it shall be something much more arcane and unsuspected, and that not for many, many years yet.
The media are as predictable as Brandon pooping his depends.
Compost stirring the feces.
The Pubbies need to get on top of this.
The issue is not age it is disease.
Simply looking at this in terms of age with regard to Trump is discriminatory. It is AGEISM.
Biden has Parkinson’s Disease with dementia. It’s not that he’s simply old, it’s that he is DISEASED.
Republicans get a handle on this issue and fight back. This is about competency regardless of age.
I think that by him taking a cholesterol medicine is equivalent to heart disease.
Of COURSE he did!
(((Wow...I’m Tired!)))
Precisely. Well done.
Yes it is.
Everything in the WP except the weather and sports scores is lies. Even if they say they are lying they are lying, because then they’d be telling the truth.
IMO-—TRUMP IS HEALTHIER THAN 80% of American citizens
LMAO
good luck with that leftists!
anyone with half a brain always knew none of this was about age, or the debate, but about Joes dementia.
Shot, then gives a 1.5 hour convention speech days later with no water and not even so much as a pregnant pause.. LOL... these people.
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