More than 230 doctors, nurses and medical professionals have called on former President Donald Trump to be transparent about his health “given his age” and to release his medical records. I’m looking for.
In a letter dated Oct. 13 and first obtained by CBS News, the 238 signatories said, “Mr. Trump falls alarmingly short of any standard of fitness for office and exhibits alarming characteristics of impaired vision.” “I am,” he wrote. “In the limited opportunity we have to investigate his actions, he provides a very worrying snapshot.”
The letter was sponsored by Doctors for Harris, a group unaffiliated with Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign. Doctors and nurses point out that presidential candidates have traditionally made their medical records public, including that of Arizona Sen. John McCain during his 2008 presidential campaign. In the 2020 election campaign with President Biden, Trump announced the results of his medical exam in June, before Election Day.
The letter pointed to the lack of detailed health records and said, “We can only make assumptions based on public opinion.”
“We all lose our sharpness as we grow older and revert to our baser instincts,” he said. We are witnessing this because of the current situation,” the doctors wrote.
The letter comes as Ms. Harris is pressuring Mr. Trump to release medical records, with her campaign viewing the age difference as a salient point. Mr. Trump is 78 years old, and Ms. Harris turns 60 on Sunday.
Harris released a doctor’s letter to the vice president on Saturday, saying she is “physically and mentally resilient” to serve as president. He also detailed her medical history and vitals, saying her recent health condition had been “unremarkable.”
Harris renewed her call for President Trump to provide details about his health in an interview published Monday.
“I produced my medical records and he wouldn’t produce his medical records. And you have to ask why this staff member would do that. And that’s because he was simply… “Maybe it’s because they think they’re not ready, they’re unfit, they’re unstable. And they shouldn’t have that level of transparency with the American people,” Harris said. He told journalist Roland Martin in an interview with Star Network.
The Trump campaign responded to Harris’ release with a letter from her doctor, Dr. Ronnie Jackson, which included a letter from her doctor, Dr. Ronnie Jackson, stating that Harris was “not the commander in chief” following the assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. “He is in perfect and excellent health, as he deserves.” The letter does not provide details about his health.
If Trump is elected, he will be the oldest president in history by the end of his term.
Mark Lopatin, a former rheumatologist in Pennsylvania who signed the letter, said he considers President Trump to be “rambling” and “off the rails.”
“You’re talking about the most powerful man, or woman, in the world. You’re talking about a job that’s probably more stressful than any other job I can imagine. The problem is that the person who takes that job Do you have the health, physical, mental and emotional resources to deal with it?” Lopatin said. “At the end of the day, it’s about transparency and intent and these kinds of things that I see from one candidate rather than another.”
On Monday, President Trump questioned Harris’ intellectual ability and said she should undergo cognitive testing. “Her actions have led many to believe that there may be something very wrong with her,” he wrote in a post on Truth Social. A letter from the vice president’s doctor said that Harris “remains in good health.”
President Trump said in an August interview with CBS News that he was “willing” to release his medical records and that he “passed” two cognitive tests. Asked Monday if details of those cognitive tests or more recent medical results would be released, the Trump campaign pointed to a statement from the weekend.
Before Biden withdrew from the race, polls showed voters had doubts about his mental and cognitive health. That changed when Harris became a candidate.
A September CBS News poll in the “blue wall” states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin found that between 64% and 68% of registered voters in those states said they wanted Harris to serve as president. It found that 47% believe Harris has sufficient mental and cognitive health to serve as president, while 47% believe she has sufficient mental and cognitive health to serve as president. % of voters said the same about Trump, 49% of voters.
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