Ledger · 2016 campaign · № 26
The "healthiest individual ever elected" medical letter Trump wrote himself
Broken“If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.”
- Promised
- , Letter released by the Trump campaign, signed by Dr. Harold Bornstein
- Topic
- Transparency & records
- Era
- 2016 campaign
What happened
Trump offered the four-paragraph letter in place of the detailed medical records other candidates release. In May 2018 Bornstein told CNN and NPR that Trump had dictated the letter himself: "He dictated that whole letter. I didn't write that letter." Bornstein said Trump read out the language over the phone and then sent a car to collect it. No comprehensive medical records were ever released in 2016.