After shooting, Team Trump keeps medical care info under wraps

[LetMyPeopleVote]

It's weird that Donald Trump's team hasn’t provided the public with information about his medical care in the wake of Saturday’s shooting.

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https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/shooting-team-trump-keeps-medical-care-info-wraps-rcna162705

When the White House announced on Wednesday that President Joe Biden had tested positive for Covid, his team issued a written statement noting his symptoms and self-isolation plans. It was accompanied by a message from the Democrat’s physician describing Biden’s condition in more detail, including information about the president’s respiratory rate, temperature and pulse oximetry.....

It also stands in contrast to Biden’s Republican rival. The Associated Press reported:

Four days after a gunman’s attempt to assassinate former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally, the public is still in the dark over the extent of his injuries, what treatment the Republican presidential nominee received in the hospital, and whether there may be any long-term effects on his health. Trump’s campaign has refused to discuss his condition, release a medical report or records, or make the doctors who treated him available, leaving information to dribble out from Trump, his friends and family.

The AP’s report quoted Jonathan Reiner, a professor of medicine and surgery at The George Washington University, saying, “It’s an understatement to say that it’s bizarre that a presidential candidate has sustained an injury from an attempted assassination and no medical report is issued to describe his evaluation and the extent of his injury.”.....

Indeed, it started before he took office. As regular readers may recall, in late 2015, during the race for the Republican presidential nomination, Team Trump released an unintentionally hilarious, four-paragraph letter from the late Dr. Harold Bornstein, asserting that Trump’s “physical strength and stamina are extraordinary” and his lab tests results were “astonishingly excellent.” The doctor added at the time, “If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.”

We learned several months later that Bornstein wrote the letter in five minutes while a limo, dispatched by Trump, waited for the document.

In the years that followed, disclosures did not improve.

Last fall, Trump released the first updated report on his health in more than three years, but it came by way of a statement issued by one of his golf club customers, and it omitted basic details such as his blood pressure and medications.

It’s against this backdrop that Team Trump also hasn’t provided the public with information about the Republican nominee’s medical care in the wake of Saturday’s shooting. There might be a benign explanation for this lack of transparency, but for now, I have no idea what it is.

[GreenWave]

1. If a Trump hurting conspiracy flowers from this, so be it.

[Prairie Gates]

2. King of the Birthers hiding documents: "It's my right not to release it!"

History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme... And God's got a sense of humor.

[dalton99a]

3. Kick

[patricia92243]

4. Trump wants it to look like he was maimed for life - rather than a small flesh wound.

[intrepidity]

5. "Ask him no questions, he'll tell you no lies."

Where are the journalists asking him?

[sarisataka]

6. This is how someone reacts to an ear injury

[4139]

7. There was actually only a little blood so likely butterfly tape and no stitches

[4139]

9. Addendum.... I think I've had bloodier kitchen knife wounds

[BoRaGard]

8. The repubes are either hiding something super stanky

or they are playing games, just jerking America around for the hell of it, like raging a-holes.

My hunch is the repubes are hiding something foul.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. Compare the medical disclosures by the Biden campaign

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