AP Reporter Calls Trump’s Doctor For A Quote, Wasn’t Expecting This Response
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President Donald Trump’s former personal physician, Dr. Harold Bornstein, is a colorful guy. When a reporter called him this week to ask for a quote, Bornstein shot back with the last response the reporter expected.
Dr. Harold Bornstein made the news during Donald Trump’s campaign for the White House when he said in his report that Trump “will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.” Bornstein made headlines again this week for telling the media that the president’s bodyguard entered his office to retrieve Trump’s medical records after his election. Bornstein said he felt “raped, frightened, and sad” when Trump’s bodyguard took the records.
In February 2017, a top White House aide who was Trump’s longtime personal bodyguard, along with the top lawyer at the Trump Organization and a third man, showed up at the office of Trump’s New York doctor without notice and took all the president’s medical records.
The incident, which Dr. Harold Bornstein described as a “raid,” took place two days after Bornstein told a newspaper that he had prescribed a hair growth medicine for the president for years.
In an exclusive interview in his Park Avenue office, Bornstein told NBC News that he felt “raped, frightened and sad” when Keith Schiller and another “large man” came to his office to collect the president’s records on the morning of Feb. 3, 2017. At the time, Schiller, who had long worked as Trump’s bodyguard, was serving as director of Oval Office operations at the White House. [Source: NBC News]
“They must have been here for 25 or 30 minutes. It created a lot of chaos,” said Bornstein. However, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders explained that the confiscation of the president-elect’s medical records is a matter of national security and standard procedure.
The White House said Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s former bodyguard did nothing out of the ordinary when he took possession of the president’s medical records last year, despite a claim by Trump’s former doctor that the episode felt like a “raid.”
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders disputed the doctor’s characterization of the episode. “As is standard operating procedure for a new president, the White House Medical Unit took possession of the president’s medical records,” she told reporters at a White House briefing. [Source: Miami Herald]
According to The Daily Caller, when AP reporter Jonathan Lemire reached out to Bornstein on Wednesday for extra comment on the matter, he received an unlikely response. Apparently not a big fan of reporters, the doctor told Lemire to go check his “toilet” before hanging up.
“I just reached out to Dr. Harold Bornstein on the phone and identified myself as a reporter,” Lemire explained on Twitter. “His response: ‘Oh, you’re a reporter? Well, go back and report on how your toilet bowl works.’ He then hung up.”
I guess Dr. Bornstein doesn’t like reporters any more than President Donald Trump does, which is understandable. After all, Bornstein was running a nice, quiet practice until the media found out he had been treating the president. And, because the press has made it a habit to report on nothing-burgers, like Trump’s hair medication instead of real news that is actually important, they latched onto Dr. Bornstein, creating chaos in his office.
Indeed, the media might as well be reporting on how their toilet bowls work. They refuse to cover real stories, like the instrumental role President Donald Trump has played in bringing peace to the Korean Peninsula, and instead, they hound the doctor who prescribed him Alopecia for hair growth. Give me a break!