Former White House Doctor Calls Trump Hospital Visit ‘Unusual’

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 19 article by Alex Henderson from AlterNet on the National Memo website here.

We need a second opinion on the president’s health

Washington Post logoThe only thing of which we can be fairly certain about President Trump’s mysterious Saturday-afternoon trip to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center is this: The White House is not telling the truth when it claims the president was there “to begin portions of his routine annual physical exam.”

We know this because — well, because those people lie about pretty much everything.

And the compulsion of Trump and his team to contradict the obvious reality that we see with our own eyes is particularly egregious where the president’s health is concerned.

View the complete commentary by Karen Tumulty on The Washington Post website here.