The New York Times is calling for Trump to release his medical records

[Dennis Donovan]

Sara Spector
The New York Times is calling for Trump to release his medical records! We can all see his frailty, the decline in his mental acuity! Not to mention his worsening psychopathy! He’s deliberately hiding his health issues.

7:33 AM · Oct 3, 2024

NYT (archived) - Trump Promised to Release His Medical Records. He Still Won’t Do It.

If elected again, he would become the oldest president by the end of his term. Yet he is refusing to disclose even basic health information.

By Emily Baumgaertner and Maggie Haberman

Oct. 3, 2024, 5:01 a.m. ET

As a presidential candidate in 2015, Donald J. Trump declined to release his medical records, instead offering a four-paragraph letter from his personal doctor proclaiming that he would be “the healthiest person ever elected to the presidency.”

In 2020, hospitalized with Covid and running for re-election, Mr. Trump’s doctors gave minimal information about his condition, which, it emerged later, was far more dire than their public descriptions let on.

In 2024, days before becoming the official Republican presidential nominee for the third time, he was grazed by a would-be assassin’s bullet, yet his campaign did not hold a briefing on his condition, release hospital records or make the emergency physicians who treated him available for interview.

Now, just over a month from an election that could make Mr. Trump, 78, the oldest person ever to serve as president (82 years, 7 months and 6 days when his term would end in January 2029), he is refusing to release even the most basic information about his health.

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Given his mental decompensation, it's necessary!

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[displacedvermoter]

1. The day after Jack Smith drops his bomb

the Times shifts to Trump's medical records. Bob and weave, keep shifting the focus.

[durablend]

6. At least it's still on him

They could've gone with "BOMB DROPPED ON TRUMP, WHY IT'S BAD NEWS FOR HARRIS"

[displacedvermoter]

8. True

Or maybe, "Harris not among those named in Smith filing, how this is bad for the VP".

[Ray Bruns]

40. Oh that's good. You should get a job at the NYT

[usaf-vet]

44. This is JD Vance's play to get them in the White House to wait for Trump to die. And/or implement the 25 Amendment.

[Attilatheblond]

63. It's Peter Thiel's play to get his puppet Vance in the White House

There, I fixed if for you.

My brother always said I am the person who will flat out say what others are only thinking.

[usaf-vet]

64. And a good fix it was!

[Charging Triceratops]

76. That's it exactly

The real fascists are laying the groundwork to quickly dispose of TFG if he wins.

[mucholderthandirt]

91. Wait? He'd be lucky to last the week. Sudden stroke. Fell down the stairs.

Slipped and busted his noggin on that fancy desk. Fell from an it's-not-suspicious-at-all open window in the residency. Another sniper, can you believe it? Bad luck, buddy. Hello, President Vance.

[paleotn]

11. Maybe they want to be on the right side of history.

[NNadir]

35. It's far too late for that. n/t.

[erronis]

50. You forgot the snark tag.

[wnylib]

65. Or maybe they are setting the stage for MAGA backers to dethrone Trump

and crown Vance as his successor.

[agingdem]

57. Years of NYT legitimizing Trump's insanity..

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cleaning up his verbal vomit, giving his toxic spew gravitas...and now the NYT wants his medical records...why is that more relevant than Trump's four years admitting his guilt, confessing his crimes and Jack Smith throwing 165 pages of receipts in Trump's bloated face?...

[Swede]

2. I don't know when that picture was taken, but his decline to his latest picture is hard to miss.

Him keeping track of all his dozens of scams must destroy the mind and body.

[wnylib]

21. His decline could be from Alzheiner's, which his father had.

Or it could be long term, mental fog aftermath from covid. Maybe a combination of both.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

29. Perhaps a cocktail of those you mentioned plus syphilis.

And drug addled.

[wnylib]

31. Sounds about right. I just hope that he has

enough lucid moments to realize what a decrepit blob he is now. Karma.

[erronis]

52. Don't forget that trump bragged about his affairs as being his "Vietnam" - Agent Orange indeed.

[GreenWave]

79. Drinking coke from the can is asking for it.

[Cha]

90. That's funny.. I was thinking

"All those Diet Cokes.'

Seems he's been on Adderall, too.. and what was causing all those sleep hangovers when he was in Court waiting to be Convicted on 34 Felony charges?

[Vinca]

3. If pressed, he'll just lean on Dr. Feelgood to release another letter proclaiming him the healthiest

human being to ever walk the earth.

[PatSeg]

18. He'll have to find a new Dr. Feelgood

I believe the original one died.

[radical noodle]

27. He's still got Ronnie Jackson

who will praise trump's health and mental abilities as being the best he's ever seen.

[Mopar151]

36. So, Ronny is still drunk? nt

[radical noodle]

41. Drunk or sober

he's still trump's fanboy.

[PatSeg]

85. Ah yes, Dr. Feelgood the Second

[Lovie777]

4. I don't know about the NYT's..........................

the trust factor is at -0-.

[Ferrets are Cool]

5. OMG, did hell finally freeze over???

First, they endorse Harris, then they do this.

[dameatball]

7. We must be patient. He is still working on releasing his taxes.

[PatSeg]

19. That's what I was thinking

Apparently he's been under audit for over eight years now and people just quit asking him to release them.

[BWdem4life]

9. He can start by explaining why his skin is turning brown

just on his face.

[dchill]

56. It just looks better with the purple hair.

Admit it.

[CrispyQ]

80. I thought it was the blue stage setting at the debate, but the blue appears to be semi-permanent.

He's definitely gone from orange to brown, but the ears are still pink. I'd like to know how he applies his makeup to that wattle under his chin. Sponges? Spray? His shirt collars must be a mess. He's a mess.

[dchill]

82. 'Sponges? Spray?' Dip.

[Wednesdays]

66. IKR?

He looks like he's just smearing on shoe polish now.

[Diraven]

72. Maybe he "happened to turn black"

[NQCowboy68]

10. It would be some fabricated bullshit from Dr Ronny PillMill

[William Seger]

12. I'd bet a lot of Republicans are hoping that Trump wins, then immediately dies

... leaving Vance at the wheel.

[LiberalArkie]

15. And Mike Johnson as VP

[NYC Liberal]

55. I don't think Johnson would ever get confirmed as VP though

[Katinfl]

25. Read somewhere that's the plan.

Some right -wing group is pushing for trump to get elected then they “25th amendment” him and Vance is in. You know they always plan for the long game, like stacking the courts. Vance is being groomed to take over if and when. He’s trump with brains. He may be even more dangerous.

[William Seger]

34. He's definitely more dangerous

Trump's obsession with maintaining his ridiculously bloated but extremely fragile ego caused a lot of problems for the country, such as his tragic mishandling of the pandemic, but Vance is a right-wing zealot who literally wants to convert our democracy to a fascist state.

[Ananda62]

73. I think you're right

Maybe the NYT’s Op-Ed is the just a step to help “the public” get onboard with Vance’s eventual 25th Amendment plan? They know Trump won’t release his medical records, but why not lay the seeds of his possible mental incompetence now, so it’ll be easier when the time comes to use the 25th?

[MorbidButterflyTat]

77. I guess they forgot

to factor in the Congressional Democrats.

[wnylib]

28. That's the plan, I think. Vance was chosen to be Trump 2.0.

Not likeable enough to get elected on his own, but someone to take over after getting Trump through the election. Someone who will implement Project 2025.

[dchill]

83. I'm hoping that Trump loses, then immediately goes to jail.

[Lovie777]

13. Gut feeling....................

RWers are setting up Vance for eventual takeover of the cult, and he is more insane than shithole.

[TBF]

51. This. I think it's been the plan all along. nt

[bucolic_frolic]

14. How many more weeks can this go on?

[Omnipresent]

16. Dumpster fire needs bed rest...

In prison!!

[NNadir]

17. What?!??!!! The New York Times has discovered the Donold Trump is old and senile? Now THAT is news!!!!

[Bev54]

69. I think they are bleeding subscriptions and possibly advertisers with their antics.

I read that even CNN is going to put its online news on subscription because they no longer have enough viewers so I am sure their advertising dollars are getting lower. It is just about time to get some very rich dems to buy them up and turn them around to actual news sites.

[NNadir]

78. They certainly bled away my subscription. When I called to cancel and they asked me "Why?" I told the rep...

...why and my general impression was that he had been hearing this quite a bit. It's hard to tell over the phone what a person's reaction, but after hanging up, I had the feeling the rep sort of agreed.

It was after they published a "news" piece reporting how tall and handsome the convicted intellectually impaired fat senile felon was.

[redstatebluegirl]

20. He will just pay a quack to say he is healthy as a horse.

[TNNurse]

22. Do any valid records exist???

[mopinko]

39. yes. at walter reed.

i suspect he had long term damage from his bout of covid. but at any rate, there r brain scans, from that and from his ‘midnight run’ when they thought he had a stroke.

[TNNurse]

43. Thanks, had forgotten or

suppressed that memory.

[mopinko]

45. i've been licking my chops about those mri's for a lonnnnggg time.

i want them on the front page of the nyt at some point. when he dies i want a public report of a thorough autopsy.

[BOSSHOG]

23. The best medicine I need is your vote

Keep me out of jail, where many hatefully say I belong, and I’ll be fine. My medical record will bore you like you’ve never been bored before.

[HAB911]

24. Better late than never?

[ECL213]

26. Trump is just trying to hide his pindickitis.

[doc03]

30. That is like 8 years too late and the audit on those tax forms should be done by now too. nt

[dalton99a]

33. +1

[Bev54]

70. At this point who the hell cares, we know he is not rich, we are more interested in his crimes

and they know it, this is a distraction.

[Freethinker65]

32. Trump's mental and physical decline far surpassed Biden's

NY Times and others didn't give a damn. Same with releasing his taxes.Trump promises things "soon" or in "two weeks" for things everyone knows will never happen and the media gives him a pass. Art of the perpetual delay.

[Generic Brad]

37. He'll get right on that very soon

But first he has to do Infrastructure Week followed by the unveiling of his health care plan. Very soon. Any day now.

[hatrack]

38. Oh, so nine years in and the NYT is "calling for" his medical records . . .

Another rhetorical popcorn fart from the Gray-Faced Lady.

[mdbl]

54. Perfect!

The truth of your quip made me LOL IRL.

[spanone]

42. K&R

[Silent Type]

46. Is that crazy looking doctor from 2016 still alive. He wrote the letter that said trump is superman or something.

[keep_left]

86. No, he's deceased. Trump's goons also busted into his practice...

...one day and took all of Trump's medical records. I guess Trump felt there was something damning in them, which there probably was.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/nyregion/harold-bornstein-dead.html

[Evolve Dammit]

47. What are they doing?? Like Charlie Brown and the football

[usonian]

48. Doctor says: He can never have a heart attack!

[Funtatlaguy]

49. Kamala should release hers/challenge him to.

[dlk]

53. Why the rush asking for Trump's medical records at this late stage?

The NYT is seriously behind the curve. They wasted no time, however, beating the drum about President Biden’s months ago.

Looks like far too little, far too late.

[BattleRow]

61. Surreptitiously laying groundwork for

his defense over Jack Smith revelations ..well..he wasn't in control of his faculties on Jan.6. yada yada yada yada.

[Old Crank]

58. He won't

It doesnt matter what he said. He just lies about everything.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

59. They're still being audited

Wait, that's his taxes.

[bullimiami]

60. Weak. They should be demanding his dropping out and facing his consequences.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

62. His ENORMOUS EGO and his VANITY will not allow hiim.

Which is why tRump looks like shit all the time, LITERALLY!!!

The man is ill and we all know it!

[PortTack]

67. How can anyone call the NYT news? Are we sure Murdock doesn't own it too?

[ShazzieB]

68. He'll never release his medical records, but I still think it's good that this is happening.

I like that the NYT is drawing attention to his failing health, because it's bound to make him uncomfortable. Anything that adds to his stress is a good thing, afaic.

[Torchlight]

71. Trump Campaign Motto:

"It's unfair holding us to the same standards we demand of everyone else (Shhh, sit, Lindsey, sit. Good boy) "

[live love laugh]

74. 😂😂😂😂😂

[usonian]

75. Look on a potential bright side to the request.

The request exposes the fact that Trump is close to completely breaking down, and the oligarchs' plan was get Vance in office ASAP.

Better yet, by exposing the plan, get a family feud going in the GOP ranks.

A little Caesar and Brutus play.
Will little Caesar bequeath the citizenry his golf courses and resorts?

(Admins! This is not a conspiracy theory. I'd give the plan even odds of happening within 4 years. )

[LetMyPeopleVote]

81. TFG will never release his real medical records

[demosincebirth]

84. Internet hackers seem to be able to hack into any system any where any time. Why don' t they do democracy favor?

[Rob H.]

87. "We are a nation that just recently heard that Saudi Arabia and Russia

will, will ree-pee-deu...aahhhh," should've been enough to make them call on Orange Foolius to release them months ago.

[applegrove]

88. Vance too. He may suffer from congenital heart condition as Elizabeth Taylor

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did her whole life. Those people with the naturally occurring double eyelashes can suffer from it. Here is the link:

https://healthland.time.com/2011/03/26/elizabeth-taylors-killer-beauty/

[Cha]

89. Wow.. the NYT... bet TSF & Faux are Pissed. And all those Tax Cut hungry Billionaires.

TY!