Trump’s former doctor reports office raided
President Trump’s former doctor says he felt “raped, frightened and sad” when three Trump associates turned up at his office and took all of the president’s medical records without warning.
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump’s former New York doctor said he felt “raped, frightened and sad” when three Trump associates turned up at his office in February of last year and took all of the president’s medical records without warning.
Dr. Harold Bornstein, in an interview with NBC News, recalled the morning of Feb. 3, 2017, when Trump Organization chief legal officer Alan Garten, Trump’s personal bodyguard Keith Schiller, and a third “large” man “raided” his office and took lab reports and Trump’s medical charts.
“They must have been here for 25 or 30 minutes,” Bornstein told NBC. “It created a lot chaos.”
Schiller, who left the White House in 2017, at the time was serving as the director of Oval Office operations.
The 70-year-old doctor said Schiller never offered an explanation but noted the incident did occur just two days after he told the New York Times he’d prescribed the president medication for hair growth.
“I couldn’t believe anybody was making a big deal out of a drug to grow his hair that seemed to be so important,” he told NBC.
Trump cut ties with Bornstein shortly after the article. He’d been Trump’s personal doctor for more than 35 years.
During the presidential campaign, Bornstein in a letter released by the Trump campaign in 2015 declared “unequivocally” that Trump would be the healthiest president ever. On Tuesday, Bornstein told CNN that Trump dictated the letter.
“His physical strength and stamina are extraordinary,” the letter stated. “If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.”
Bornstein also noted Schiller never provided a form authorizing the release of the records, signed by the president — which is a violation of patient privacy law.
At the daily press briefing Tuesday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the medical records were taken “as is standard operating procedure for a new president.”