The
doctor who has produced the only public medical record about Donald
Trump during his presidential campaign reportedly said he spent only
five minutes writing it.
Harold Bornstein, Trump's doctor who wrote a four-paragraph note
last December declaring the GOP nominee to be the "healthiest
individual ever elected to the presidency," said Friday that he spent
very little time on the note.
"I try to get four or five lines down as fast as possible so that they would be happy," he told
NBC News, explaining that he penned the note as he waited for a limo to
pick him up. "In the rush, I think some of those words didn't come out
exactly the way they were meant."
Bornstein
said he added some hyperbole to the note because "I think I picked up
his kind of language and then I just interpreted it to my own."
Asked
about Trump's health, Bornstein told NBC: "I don't think he's in any
better or worse (shape) than the average person that goes and exercises
every single day," he said. "Doesn't smoke, doesn't drink -- and that's
simply the best advantage you can have to live -- and he's got a good
family history."
Trump
and his allies have raised suspicions about Hillary Clinton's health in
recent days, but he and his campaign have released virtually no other
records about his own health beyond Bornstein's note. As CNN's Brianna
Keilar put it on "The Situation Room" this week, "There is nothing that
would lead you to believe he is healthy. ... His letter from his doctor
is borderline ridiculous when you talk to other doctors who look at it."
Trump, at age 70, would be the oldest man
to assume the presidency if elected in November, about eight months
senior to Ronald Reagan when he was first sworn-in more than 35 years
ago. But both he and Clinton, according to a federal life expectancy
model from 2013, are statistically likely to live comfortably through
and beyond potential second terms in the White House, well into their
80s.
There is little in Trump's personal medical history or lifestyle to suggest he is disproportionately disposed to future risks.

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