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I hope this isn’t true but it looks really really bad that they’re not being fully transparent on his health of all issues.
Even before his heart attack, I always thought the main objection from a lot of apolitical people and independents and others to a Sanders candidacy was more likely to be his age and health than any of his policy proposals - his ‘socialism’! - which actually have massive support.
Politics 101: don’t give your opponents an easy stick with which to beat you, especially when you have a lot of (bad faith) opponents. #justsayin
Don’t get mad at me, trolls in my timeline, get mad at the candidate for making a pledge he doesn’t want to keep: “The people do have a right to know about the health of a senator, somebody who's running for president of the United States -- full disclosure." - Bernie, 2019
For the record I think anyone and everyone running for the world’s most powerful job should have to, by law, release all their tax records and all their medical records.

And I think it’s a scandal the media and Democrats allowed Trump to get away without doing either in 2016.
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