Thread by @SethAbramson

Looking around today for the full medical history of Donald Trump, completed by an independent nonpartisan physician and including a full neurological workup and an accurate statement of his height, weight, and prescription drug use. Can anyone direct me to it? Thanks in advance!

PS/ I'm not looking for the report Trump wrote himself and then had a doctor sign, which lied about his height, weight, coronary disease, illicit prescription drug use and cognitive abilities. I'm looking for the full professional workup. It exists, right? npr.org/sections/thetw…

PS2/ I am also not speaking of the medical reports that an army of Trump thugs ransacked his doctor's office for so they could never be seen by voters. I fully understand those were long ago destroyed in burn pits due to how horrifying their contents were. nbcnews.com/politics/donal…

PS3/ Obviously I'm not referring to reports from the rogue doctor Trump used for years before installing him in Congress.

I realize the price for that aid was Jackson lying about Trump's health as Jackson ran an illegal pill dispensary in the White House. cbsnews.com/news/trump-whi…

PS4/ Ah—I see your confusion now. You may mistakenly think I'm referring to the records created at Walter Reed during the 2019 visit there that Trump lied about every aspect of. But obviously I don't refer to those public records, as Trump had all those doctors sign illegal NDAs.

PS5/ It goes without saying that I'm not referring to the two concussion-protocol "cognitive tests" Trump had to confirm he doesn't have a concussion. I know he lied about every aspect of those tests and how he performed on them—but I think his problem is worse than a concussion.

PS6/ I'm not referring to COVID, either. Obviously Trump had at least one life-threatening case of COVID—and COVID is known to have longterm neurological effects—and obviously one of the times he had it he tried to infect Biden with it at a debate, but I don't mean COVID records.

PS7/ I'm just referring to the normal, human-person medical records all of us have, which have been written by an actual doctor who's not under an illegal NDA.

There can be no doubt, surely, that such records exist for a man running for President?

Can someone direct me to them?

PS8/ Some of you note that journalists must be in possession of these records, as if they weren't they'd be talking daily about their absence—and what Trump often being incoherent in public suggests about their content. But weirdly, no one in media seems to have *ever* seen them?

PS9/ Someone pointed out that Trump would soon be speaking to ABC News about his cognitive state, as ABC News did just reach out to him this week to ask him for an interview on that subject.

Ah—no, my bad. Just looked it up and it appears that Trump refused to do that interview.

UPDATE/ OK—it sounds like all Trump medical records have been destroyed via concerted effort. I don't find that suspicious. So I guess I'll just ask if anyone knows why he often slurs his words and loses his train of thought, can't finish sentences and never speaks without lying?

UPDATE2/ Some things we can rule out:

(1) An STD that causes dementia. He has been faithful to all his wives, so there is no reason for him to have a hidden STD.

(2) Physical frailty to the point he needs help down a wheelchair-accessible ramp. He is 6'4", 175, he says, so no.

UPDATE3/ Some other conditions we can rule out with Trump:

(3) Any genetic condition. One of the reasons Trump is clear in private about his admiration for Adolf Hitler is because he and Hitler both enjoy(ed) perfect genes. So obviously Trump couldn't have any genetic condition.

UPDATE4/ More medical conditions we can rule out for Trump, even in the face of any legit medical records related to him having been destroyed as part of a decades-long conspiracy:

(4) Anything COVID-related. Yes he was airlifted from the White House and put on a ventilator. So?

UPDATE5/ I think the main thing you all are missing is that the guy has never lied about medical stuff and is deserving of our trust. When he draft-dodged to have his own "personal Vietnam" as a sex addict, his bone spurs hurt as he slept with *every mistress*. Have some respect.

MORE/ And look, I'm sick of the hundreds of doctors who've diagnosed Trump with Malignant Narcissistic Sociopathy using the textbook definition in the DSM. It's not like Sanjay Gupta is on CNN implying President Biden is senile without being his doctor, right? Get a grip, folks.

MORE/ Maybe this thread was a bad idea. Records aside, I have total confidence in Trump being physically, mentally, psychologically and emotionally healthy. Just look at him! Svelte, carrying his own golf clubs, never driving his cart on fairways. Also super-coherent in speeches.

MORE/ But...—sorry to continue—I *do* feel like, as a journalist, I'd be shaming myself and my profession if I didn't have in hand a valid professional medical workup for Trump? I feel like any journalist anywhere would demand that and not stop talking about it until they had it?

MORE/ Does anyone have an email for the NYT or Atlanta Journal-Constitution ed boards? I know they asked the sitting President of the United States to resign despite full professional medical workups saying he's fine, so they must have Trump's in hand and they must be way better?

END/ Gosh—I'm so confused as a retired journalism professor. I feel like it wasn't great how Trump didn't know the name of his doctor—or when he said he'd never heard of a huge project all his aides are working on—but also feel like surely US media wouldn't fucking betray us all?

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