On Monday, Trump opined that Hillary Clinton did not have the mental or physical stamina to be president. This was playing off of a conspiracy theory that has been pushed in the conservative media and by Trump supporters for weeks.

Trump's medical "report":On December 4, 2015, the Trump campaign released… something.It purports to be a medical letter, but it is one of the most ridiculous documents ever to emerge in any political campaign.

First, the letterhead is in the same font as the letter, which appears to have been created using Microsoft Word.

The signature from the doctor is several inches past the signature line—the result you might get if the document had been signed as a blank and filled in later. 

The letterhead includes a Gmail address—something doctors say is extremely unusual, since doctors do not want patients contacting them directly by email as a substitute for scheduling an appointment.

There is also a website listed, but if you follow the URL (haroldbornsteinmd.com), it takes you to cdn.freefarcy.com, a blank page that asks if you want to upload an update to a Flash program onto your computer (the domain name, freefarcy.com, is still for sale.

 If you decline, it does so anyway and, based on the response of the security system on my computer, the “program” on the doctor’s supposed website is a virus. Then, there is the doctor who allegedly signed this document. His name is Harold N. Bornstein, and he is a gastroenterologist; a physician  who treats the digestive tract.

This is not an internist, who is trained specifically in providing full histories and physicals of patients.

The letter signed by Dr. Bornstein, who did not return an email he has treated Trump since 1980.

However, it mentions no history of the gastrointestinal problem that led the Republican candidate for president to seek out his help.

In fact, the letter says Trump has had no significant medical problems.

So why has he been seeing a gastroenterologist for over 35 years?

The letter,does not contain a full medical history for Trump. The letter also has problems with sentence structure and major typographical errors, such as the opening line, “To Whom my concern.”

Most amusing, it says that his medical examination of Trump has “only positive results.”

In medical terms, if the test is positive, it confirms the existence of disease.

Is this doctor saying Trump has every medical ailment that could be found in examination?

Does he not know the meaning of the word?

Or, was the letter written by someone in the Trump campaign?

Here's the payoff:

The letter says results were “extraordinarily excellent.” (Not a medical term.) It says, “His physical strength and stamina are extraordinary.” (Again, not a medical term.)

Then, in the most hilarious, Trump-esque line of all, it says, “If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest person ever elected to the presidency.”

In other words, this letter purports to show that a doctor has assessed the health of 43 people he has never examined, including the four who are still alive.

Last edited by DollyLongstaff (8/16/2016 8:39 pm)