Politics & Government
Donald Trump's Doctor Wrote Health Letter In 5 Minutes, He Says
He said Trump would be "the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency."

Donald Trump's doctor told NBC News that a letter he wrote saying that Trump would be "the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency" was penned in five minutes as he was waiting on a limo sent by the Trump campaign.
Dr. Harold Bernstein said in an interview with NBC News that he thought about what he would say all day but didn't actually type it out until the limo was on its way to pick up the letter at Bernstein's East 78th Street office in Manhattan.
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The letter, dated Dec. 4, 2015, was positively Trump-ian, saying the candidate's lab test results "were astonishingly excellent" and that "his physical strength and stamina are extraordinary."
It began with an apparent typo, saying, "To Whom My Concern."
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"I think I picked up his kind of language and then just interpreted it to my own," he told NBC News.
"If elected," the letter concluded, "Mr. Trump, I can say unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency."
About that claim, he told NBC News: "I like that sentence to be quite honest with you."
His full interview with the network was scheduled to air on NBC News with Lester Holt.
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