Cray-cray o' the day
by digby
Trump's Dr Feelgood dropped a little bombshell today:
Dr. Harold Bornstein told NBC News he felt "raped, frightened, and sad" when three men, including former White House aide Keith Schiller and a lawyer at the Trump Organization, showed up at his New York City office on Feb. 3, 2017, to collect the president's medical records.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday confirmed that officials "took possession" of Trump's medical records, but said it was "not her understanding" that it was a raid.
"It would be standard procedure for a newly elected president's medical records to be in possession by the White House medical unit," Sanders told reporters.
CNN also later reported, according to anonymous sources, that the doctor has misconstrued the situation and that it wasn't a raid.
Bornstein said he was not provided with a form authorizing the release of the records, which, if true, could be a violation of patient privacy laws.
Bornstein also told NBC that the men asked him to take a photo of him and Trump off of his wall.
A New York police spokesperson told BuzzFeed News on Tuesday that the department had no complaint on file in relation to the incident.
Bornstein did not return BuzzFeed News' requests for an interview. He later told a CBS News reporter, "Sweetheart, this is Watergate, goodbye!"
He also told a CNN reporter that he was "robbed" of the medical records.
When they asked the White House snowflake Sarah Huckabee Sanders about this, this is what she said:
“As is standard operating procedure for a new president, the White House medical unit took possession of the president’s medical records.”
Right. Every four or eight years the new president sends in his private thugs to break the law and seize his medical records from his private doctor. Everybody knows that.
Is it just me or is this president's essential thuggishness becoming more obvious every day?
And, by the way, as it becomes more obvious that the country has a criminal mobster in the White House, conservatives in the media and the congress are circling the wagons ever tighter.
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