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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe Need A Real Doctor Team To Do A Real Physical On Trump
Period.
He has the codes.
onecaliberal
(32,855 posts)Siwsan
(26,262 posts)I'm convinced the fast trip to the hospital, last November, had NOTHING to do with starting the process. Did he have a 'mild' stroke?
Joe should release information on his health and demand trump* do the same. Maybe they could both have evaluations by the same facility by a CIVILIAN medical staff.
handmade34
(22,756 posts)people covering for trump just as they did for Reagan's alzheimers
we are in dangerous territory
Lesley Stahl writes about a White House visit in 1986...
"Reagan didn't seem to know who I was. He gave me a distant look with those milky eyes and shook my hand weakly. Oh, my, he's gonzo, I thought. I have to go out on the lawn tonight and tell my countrymen that the president of the United States is a doddering space cadet."
in '84 a reporter asked Reagan about arms control...
Reagan: "Well, we uh, well... I guess, uh, well, we uh ..."
Nancy Reagan, (softly): "We're doing the best we can."
Reagan: (with a big smile): "We're doing the best we can!"
DanieRains
(4,619 posts)Kinda.
Under The Radar
(3,401 posts)The President that directed the development of the first atomic weapons had no control of his legs and misled the American public about it his entire time as president. Yet he makes my list as the greatest American President who created the social safety nets that we have today that republicans have been trying to demolish ever since.
Perhaps FDRs legs failed him because his brain required so much energy from his body, which is certainly not the case with Donald Trump.
SWBTATTReg
(22,121 posts)have no vested interests, in certifying whatever rump is mentally and physically able to be president...all candidates should pass such an independent physical and mental examination.
After all, the office of the presidency requires one to be in good health. Enough of these quacks that no one has ever heard of, and damn privacy rules, when one is in the highest office of the land, we deserve to know the full truth of one's quirks and health issues. I just want to make sure that rump doesn't pull a fast one on us again, using some doctor from who knows where, to certify that he's the best human being ever to walk the earth (or some other nonsense like this).
The same thing should apply to financial records too, I think rump has acted a lot with regard to his and only his financial interests at heart, while ignoring others. And most candidates have revealed their financial records. Why does rump object to revealing his financial history / assets / tax returns / etc.? Me thinks it's obviously fraud, big time.
kskiska
(27,045 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Are they certain it was djt?
ARPad95
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