Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump released details from a recent physical Thursday morning.
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Trump is also set to discuss the results of the exam on a television show scheduled to air Thursday afternoon, bringing his health to the fore of the presidential race.
He later said he wrote it in five minutes without giving it much thought. Trump takes a lipid lowering agent (rosuvastatin) and a low dose aspirin.
Clinton will resume campaigning on Thursday, appearing at a rally in Greensboro, N.C., according to her campaign.
At 70, Trump would be the oldest president to enter the White House.
Other than Donald speaking in generalities and claiming his doctor, Dr. Harold Bornstein, M.D. said he would be the “healthiest individual ever elected”, the former Celebrity Apprentice star hasn’t revealed many specifics about his health.
Mrs Clinton’s bout of pneumonia – diagnosed last Friday but only disclosed by her campaign on Sunday after she was filmed stumbling into her van – has turned the spotlight on the health of both candidates. Bornstein has been Trump’s physician for more than three decades. In fact, Trump’s numbers were apparently so impressive that the TV host said only a young person would have levels that good. But Ivanka Trump was on hand “to speak further about the child care and maternity leave initiative that the Trump campaign announced Tuesday night”, the statement said.
As Trump was focusing on fitness, Eric Schneiderman, New York’s attorney general, announced he was looking into possible “impropriety” at the Trump Foundation charity after allegations that it spent $12,000 on an autographed American football helmet and $20,000 on a 6-foot portrait of the billionaire himself. Trump has declared Flint’s water problems “a horror show” and said “this is a situation that would have never happened if I were president”.
Trump said that some women “just aren’t in a position to go get a prescription”.
Here was the 70-year-old Republican nominee, known to exercise little and indulge regularly in fast food, giving more information about his health to a celebrity doctor than the press that has always been requesting it. News organizations were left scrambling Wednesday afternoon to reach audience members about what Trump revealed, including his weight (which differed depending on the source). “She continues to remain healthy and fit to serve as president of the United States”, said Dr. Lisa Bardack, Clinton’s doctor.
Over many months, Trump has sought to raise questions about the health of Clinton, 68, and his supporters have asserted that she is hiding something about her health (her aides have denied this).
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Presumably thanks to the drugs, Trump’s cholesterol level is now normal.
