Trump Doctor: Trump Bodyguard and Trump lawyer raided his office and took medical files...

[HipChick]

Dr. Harold Bornstein said he felt "raped" after White House aide Keith Schiller and lawyer Alan Garten showed up unannounced and took Trump's files.

In February 2017, a top White House aide who was Trump's longtime personal bodyguard, along with the top lawyer at the Trump Organization and a third man, showed up at the office of Trump's New York doctor without notice and took all the president's medical records.The incident, which Dr. Harold Bornstein described as a "raid," took place two days after Bornstein told a newspaper that he had prescribed a hair growth medicine for the president for years.

In an exclusive interview in his Park Avenue office, Bornstein told NBC News that he felt "raped, frightened and sad" when Keith Schiller and another "large man" came to his office to collect the president's records on the morning of Feb. 3, 2017. At the time, Schiller, who had long worked as Trump's bodyguard, was serving as director of Oval Office operations at the White House.

"They must have been here for 25 or 30 minutes. It created a lot of chaos," Bornstein said, who described the incident as frightening.
A framed 8x10 photo of Bornstein and Trump that had been hanging on the wall in the waiting room now lies flat under a stack of papers on the top shelf of Bornstein's bookshelf. Bornstein said the men asked him to take it off the wall.

Bornstein said he was not given a form authorizing the release of the records and signed by the president —known as a HIPAA release — which is a violation of patient privacy law. A person familiar with the matter said there was a letter to Bornstein from then-White House doctor Ronny Jackson, but didn't know if there was a release form attached.Donald Trump and his personal physician Harold Bornstein in a photo that used to hang on his office wall. Bornstein said he was asked to take the photo down.Courtesy Harold Bornstein

Bornstein said the original and only copy of Trump's charts, including lab reports under Trump's name as well as under the pseudonyms his office used for Trump, were taken.

Another man, Trump Organization Chief Legal Officer Alan Garten, joined Schiller's team at Bornstein's office, and Bornstein's wife Melissa photocopied his business card. Garten declined to comment on this story.Schiller, who left the White House in September 2017, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Bornstein said that Trump cut ties with him after he told the New York Times that Trump takes Propecia, a drug for enlarged prostates that is often prescribed to stimulate hair growth in men. Bornstein told the Times that he prescribed Trump drugs for rosacea and cholesterol as well.The story also quotes Bornstein recalling that he had told Rhona Graff, Trump's longtime assistant, "You know, I should be the White House physician."After the story ran on February 1, 2017, Bornstein said Graff called him and said, "So you wanted to be the White House doctor? Forget it, you're out.' "

Two days after the story ran, the men came to his office."I couldn't believe anybody was making a big deal out of a drug to grow his hair that seemed to be so important. And it certainly was not a breach of medical trust to tell somebody they take Propecia to grow their hair. What's the matter with that?"

Bornstein said he is speaking out now after seeing reports that Ronny Jackson, who has allegedly been called "the candy man" for loosely prescribing pain medications as White House doctor, will not return to his post after being considered to run the Veterans Administration."This is like a celebration for me," he said.Jackson has denied improperly prescribing drugs.Bornstein, 70, had been Trump's personal doctor for more than 35 years.

During Trump's presidential campaign, Bornstein wrote a letter declaring "unequivocally" that Trump would be the healthiest president in history. He called Trump's health "astonishingly excellent." The Trump campaign released the letter in December 2015.Bornstein told NBC News in 2016 that he wrote the note in just five minutes while a limo sent by the candidate waited outside his office.
Asked how he could justify saying Trump would be the healthiest president ever, Bornstein said, "I like that sentence to be quite honest with you and all the rest of them are either sick or dead."



https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-doc-says-trump-bodyguard-lawyer-raided-his-office-took-n870351

[awesomerwb1]

1. Wonder if this Dr still thinks

Dump is the healthiest president in history.

[Botany]

2. Donny has a drug habit

"some people say"


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[lapfog_1]

3. highly illegal without the signed release form

These guys act like they really are the mob.

Wouldn't be surprised that the second guy was a Russian mobster muscle.

[spanone]

6. they REALLY ARE the mob.

[lapfog_1]

8. not nearly as smart as the real mob

whether it's the traditional mob or Russian mob or any of the drug cartels.

[Sanity Claws]

4. Another example of thuggery and bullying by Trump

BTW, I think Bornstein did violate ethics and HIPAA by revealing the drugs he prescribed for Trump. However, this does not justify the response. A justified response would be a HIPAA complaint and a signed release demanding that the records be turned over.

[Tanuki]

5. Bornstein should not have turned over the original medical records and should not even have given

a copy absent a written release from Trump or his designated medical power of attorney. I am a healthcare provider and would have called the police if I felt intimidated by someone who was trying to pressure me to violate the law and professional ethics. He was probably relieved to get potentially damaging records out of his office. Nobody in their right mind would hand over their only copy of the original records. This is fishy on both sides.

[lostnfound]

7. One unprofessional nitwit deserves another. Nt

[gratuitous]

9. Bornstein kept quiet about this for more than 14 months?

Wowsers. There is so much wrong with this story, it's hard to know where to begin, but Bornstein's complete silence about the matter for more than a year says a lot to the discerning information consumer.

Any other patients of Dr. Bornstein should consider getting their records and changing doctors. That is, if he still has their complete chart.

[forgotmylogin]

10. He felt "raped"?

Does he have previous experience to base this on, or is he just trivializing the trauma that people who are actually raped go through?

[NCTraveler]

11. "And it certainly was not a breach of medical trust to tell somebody they take Propecia"

Yes, it is. Not the end of the world but not cool.

And lets go with violated, good doctor. Lets leave your feelings of being raped out of it.

Lay down with the dogs......

Sorry you missed your Trump gig.