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| Donald Trump speaks at a rally on Aug. 25, 2016, in Manchester, N.H.Add caption |
On Monday morning, Clinton tweeted a link to her campaign website with a post titled “Donald Trump got a clean bill of health from a physician who sounds remarkably like Donald Trump.”
The letter — which was originally released in December — said Trump would be the healthiest president in history. But it has come back into the spotlight after NBC News interviewed the doctor who wrote it Friday.
Dr. Harold Bornstein told NBC that he wrote the letter in five minutes while a limo waited to take it to Trump.
The Clinton campaign begins its 13-point takedown by rattling off a series of issues with the letterhead and greeting: The letterhead includes the name of another doctor, Jacob Bornstein, who passed away in 2010. The medical abbreviation next to Trump’s doctor’s name includes "P.C." which the Clinton campaign says usually means a firm or medical practice rather than a practitioner.
The letter also includes a website that no longer exists. The Clinton campaign writes that the mention of an email address is uncommon because “usually doctors’ letters released publicly do not include email addresses, in order to avoid HIPAA violations.”
And the letter begins with “To Whom My Concern," presumably a typo.
Clinton's team then goes through a series of claims made in the letter, questioning why a doctor would use certain phrasing.
In one instance, Bornstein said Trump’s lab results were “astonishingly excellent,” which the Clinton campaign writes is strange because a doctor shouldn’t be astonished by good results.
When Bornstein claimed Trump would be the “healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency,” the Clinton campaign shoots back: “What a whopper of a closing statement! We feel confident saying Dr. Bornstein has never examined George Washington.”
The issue of candidate health has become more prominent in recent weeks after Trump supporters and surrogates have been circulating debunked conspiracies about Clinton’s health.
While Trump has not outright discussed the claims, he has danced around them — often hitting Clinton's lack of “stamina” on the trail.
On Sunday, Trump, who has declined to release his tax returns, called on Clinton to release another kind of document: her health records.
Like Trump, Clinton has also released a doctor’s letter, though with a different tone that Trump's. Her doctor concluded that, citing Clinton's age at the time the letter was written, the Democratic candidate was a “a healthy 67-year-old female whose current medical conditions include hypothyroidism and seasonal pollen allergies.”
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