‘Skeptical is the right word’: Dick Cheney’s cardiologist explains why Trump’s lack of transparency over unannounced visit to Walter Reed is ‘worrisome’

President Donald Trump’s two previous trips to Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland for annual physicals were announced ahead of time, but an unexpected examination of Trump at Walter Reed on Saturday had not been — which raises concerns. And CNN’s Brooke Baldwin, Monday on CNN, discussed the matter with Dr. Jonathan Reiner, the cardiologist who treated Vice President Dick Cheney for heart disease in the 2000s.

Baldwin asked Reiner (who practices cardiology at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C.) what he had been hearing about Trump’s Walter Red appearance. Reiner responded, “I reached out to some contacts inside the White House…..  A person at the White House authorized to talk about the president’s medical condition told me that this had been something that they had been thinking about doing for a while — that the president had some down time on Saturday afternoon…. According to this source, there was really no sophisticated testing done.”Reiner went on to say, “It’s a little bit unusual. Almost everything that is usually done in a presidential physical like this can be done in the White House at the White House medical unit. So, it really doesn’t make a lot of sense why the president would travel up to Walter Reed on a Saturday afternoon for this kind of testing.”

View the complete November 18 article by Alex Henderson on the AlterNet website here.