Jonathan Reiner, MD, is a CNN medical analyst and Professor of Medicine and Surgery at George Washington University. White House press pool video from the afternoon of Saturday, November 16, 2019 shows the President getting into a black Secret Service Suburban with his physician, Dr. Sean Conley, for the short motorcade procession to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. That claim, coupled with the President's unprompted denial this week that he did not have "mini-strokes," only deepens the mystery. (Trump asserted that his "mini-strokes" tweet was intended to refute an August 31 tweet by a former White House press secretary -- and CNN contributor -- Joe Lockhart, which read "Did @realDonaldTrump have a stroke which he is hiding from the American public?") While it's entirely possible there's an innocuous reason for Trump's Walter Reed visit, the event is reminiscent of other times in American history when important information concerning the medical fitness of the president, or a candidate for that office, was withheld from the public.

Source: CNN September 05, 2020 22:29 UTC