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New Storm Over Trump’s Refusal to Release Medical Records

Trump enthused that he “got everything right” on cognitive tests after he was the victim of an assassination attempt in July and would “very gladly” release the records. He hasn’t.

Donald Trump is dodging his pledge—following the July assassination attempt where he was wounded in his right ear—that he would “very gladly” release his medical records, according to The New York Times.

If he wins re-election next month, Trump, 78, would eventually surpass President Joe Biden, who turns 82 next month, as the oldest Oval Office holder in history.

Biden and Trump’s election opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, have also declined to release comprehensive medical records.

The Republican nominee bragged to CBS News in August that he earned a “perfect score” on a medical exam and “aced” cognitive tests after the July attempt on his life at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

“I got everything right,” he enthused. “One of the doctors said, ‘I’ve never seen that before, where you get everything right.’ No, I have no problem. I’d go a step further, I think anybody that runs for president, whether they’re 75 or 65 or 45, I think should take a cognitive test.”

When the NYT asked for Trump’s purportedly sterling records, his campaign would only provide a July letter written by Congressman Dr. Ronny Jackson (R-TX), his former physician, that said the wound in his ear was healing. It contains no further medical details or information about cognitive tests.

The doctor treating Donald Trump’s gunshot wound is so “concerned” about the former president’s health that he’s been offering his services to the former president daily–apparently without a valid medical license, according to TMZ. Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX), Trump’s former White House physician, appears to have lost his medical license in the state of Virginia after it expired in May, 2020.

The Times noted that Dr. David Rottinghaus, a physician in the emergency room at Butler Memorial Hospital, where Trump was treated after the shooting, noted—without addressing the former president’s case specifically—“any time there is a high-velocity injury, particularly from a weapon and a gunshot there is potential for significant damage. You have to be very meticulous and very diligent in the evaluation of even something that may appear to be minor.”