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AS A PRESIDENTIAL candidate, Donald Trump quoted a letter from his former personal doctor gushing about his apparently excellent health — a note the physician now says Trump dictated himself.
Speaking to CNN, Dr Harold Bornstein said Trump “dictated that whole letter”.
“I didn’t write that letter. I just made it up as I went along.”
In December 2015, the Trump campaign released the glowing missive which said that “if elected, Mr Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency”.
The Manhattan-based doctor months later said he wrote the note hastily as Trump’s car waited.
‘Chaos’
Bornstein’s new comments come as the physician finds himself back in the spotlight after he told NBC that a bodyguard visited his Park Avenue office in New York last year and confiscated the president’s medical records.
“They must have been here for 25 or 30 minutes. It created a lot of chaos,” Bornstein told NBC, saying the incident on 3 February 2017 made him feel “raped, frightened and sad”.
Bornstein said the original and only copy of Trump’s medical charts, including lab reports under the president’s name and various pseudonyms, were taken.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said the incident was “standard procedure”.
According to Bornstein, the “raid” came two days after the New York Times quoted the doctor as saying he had prescribed Trump hair-growth medicine for years.
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Stephen and David would make the marriage of the century, I love them they are fantastic.
I’m sure Stephen’s husband will thank you for that one!
The advice Norris gives at the end is spot on. And even if you’ve already read it the audio book is definitely worth checking out.
Yeah a version with lone narrator would be a bit jarring. But I think the audio book I have is the 1982 recordings, it has a complete cast of voice actors, sound effects, music etc. It’s very well put together.
try this audio tour , worth a listen me thinks ! https://archive.org/details/TheJamesJoyceHistoricalAndLiteraryTourOfMullingar
Or just find a quiet spot to yourself and read it aloud?
Don’t think it’s any of those Pontius, it’s an rte version so it’s probably not up on YouTube. I got a digital copy ages ago so not too sure where to get it now. I’m sure it’s available to download somewhere, can have a proper look when I get out of work
I haven’t read anything yet from Joyce, it’s on my bucket list though.
That aside, i would love to meet with Stephen Fry and Senator Norris for a chat.
Have to watch that
I have an audio book of Ulysses read by Jim Norton (Bishop Brennan). I highly recommend it!
a pair of headbangers.
I have time for Fry but none for Norris…
have your say