White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday that the president wears bandages on the back of his hand because he’s “literally constantly shaking hands.”
CNN host Jake Tapper isn’t buying the official White House explanation for Donald Trump sporting bandages on the back of his hand, arguing on “The Lead” that there’s more to the president’s health picture than has been revealed.
Tapper discussed the matter with CNN chief political analyst David Axelrod and ex-Trump aide Alyssa Farah Griffin after White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Thursday that Trump wears the bandages as a result of “constantly shaking hands.”
“The White House gave the same explanation for bruising back in July,” Tapper said Thursday. “Obviously, he’s 79 years old. And there is something going on with his health that they’re not telling us, because otherwise, why did he have that MRI?”
He has probably already forgotten his dementia diagnosis.
Is he dead yet?
I hear no cheering or fireworks, so I’m guessing he’s not.
I got a nice bottle of booze waiting for the announcement
Can the doctors be sued and brought to testify under oath that Donald is perfectly healthy?
Perjury has actual consequences IIRC
Does it? Does perjury have real consequences when literally nothing else does?
I believe that between doctor patient confidentiality and HIPAA, that will be quite difficult.
Imagine that your doctor was forced to give testimony on your health. Nobody would want that.
Patient records can be subpoenaed but the request has to be relevant to a case. the persons defense as well as the provider has the right to argue against the release, though their arguments can be overruled and the provider can be compelled to release records and testify as to your diagnosis, treatment, clinical observations, etc.
It’s wild how people will regularly assume HIPAA is some magic force that protects them from government overreach. It’s not, at all. I’m not specifically shitting on you because I see this claim repeated all the time, even just here in this thread. Your providers should make the limitations of HIPAA more clear to you. They’re probably more concerned with getting you in and out to maximize billable time bc fee for service billing is fucked. That’s a whole different nightmare
A priest during confessional has more protection from being compelled to testify than any doctor or therapist. They even have stronger protections than lawyers. Lawyer client privilege can be overturned if you are found to be abusing it to plan crimes. If you brag to a clergy about all the crimes you’re gonna do (though if they help they will be punished for helping, the confessional is still inadmissible and protected). They are even usually exempt from mandated reporter laws (even though they’re often in the highest risk categories for child sex abuse). It’s fucked that this country gives a pass to pedophiles to rape kids because of a historical precedent towards fucking nonsense; meanwhile the fields built on a base of evidence that need to build trust have a cornerstone of “oh the judicial system can compel me if you become their enemy but btw if you go to church you can literally confess to raping kids and the murder you’re planning and no one will rat you out”.
Source: work in healthcare and have had records subpoenaed (successfully fought off 2/3 attempts, fuck you government)
But granted they aren’t getting trumps records. No fucking way. Even if someone had the balls to charge him with something and claim they needed them as evidence he’d get the entire government to make sure that never happened, even if it meant falsifying or even destroying the documents
I did not know about the first paragraphs, as I’m not in states, and I agree with your analysis in the last paragraph.
There’s no way anybody would get those records through subpoenas. Only way those records would see the light of day is if they’re either leaked by an insider, looking to hang themselves in prison, or got hacked.
Idk I heard it was an abortion… That should do it
The abortion was successful, but the afterbirth golem has lived for 79 years.
Id assume Trump would need to file a HIPPA release which ain’t happening.
Now if this was a democratic president the supreme court would say that by accepting taxpayer funded healthcare, the citizens are thereby the payor/insurance company and that HIPPA authorizes release of protected health information to payors so the public is allowed to know subpoenad health information without a release.
File that one under “No Shit Sherlock.” But he’s going to dodder along for another 8 - 10 years.
Whatever it is, I hope it hurts a lot.
I hope it’s something serious but on the cusp of treatment, cancelled because he shut down the NIH.
I heard it was childrapeolitus, and that he has had a really bad case of it for many decades.
It really doesn’t matter until he actually collapses to the floor. Even then they’ll try to spin it into something positive “Mr. president was exhausted for working the hardest anyone has ever worked.”
That’s basically already their excuse for him falling asleep constantly.
The Dems poisoned him. Kill all the Dems.
He wants to be on a coin so badly, he’ll die for it. I say we increase the incentive, and offer him a stamp, too, even though he probably hates stamps for some MAGA reason.
I’m so tired of this fucking story. This evil p.o.s is never going to die. We’ve been hearing Trump health/mind failing stories for like 10 fucking years already…
Wake me up when he’s actually dead. Unfortunately he’s probably going to outlive me and I’m only 39.
His age makes people complacent because they assume he’s gonna die soon. Even if he does, I’m not sure it’ll improve anything
Exactly.
Unless his death is imminent, I dont care.
If he’s been having micro-strokes, the likelihood of a massive game-ending stroke is much higher than in the general population. Though it would be more just if he had one that rendered him crippled, incapable of speech, and in constant pain, then he lived another decade after being removed from office, having enough awareness to know that his ill-gotten gains and those of his family have been fully asset-stripped. Also, bedsores. Lots of bedsores.
It certainly feels that way.
Why say something now, Jake? Why not wait until after his presidency? Then write a book about it? Then sell that book while you’re doing your job on TV? Just a thought.
Because he’s holding out for a spot when Trump dies. Everyone in the conservative sphere is circling the White House like sharks because they know half of everyone is gone as soon as Vance sits down - because half of them are in those seats on account of being friends with Trump and nothing more.
I’m $ure he ha$ hi$ rea$ons.
I really don’t understand why they always feel the need to cover up presidential health issues. I know the answer is “national security,” but how exactly is it secure to have a man in obvious mental and physical decline going around “shaking hands” with other world leaders? Just own up to it and have him die at Mar-a-lago playing golf like he probably wants. That was the whole point of having JD as a backup, right?
My bet is that they’re trying to get to the two year mark before kicking Trump out. That way JD gets a little less than two years in the white house, but is still eligible to be president two more times.
I doubt that’s the reason. Vance doesn’t have the skills or the personality to be president. I’d expect to see him impeached more than win an election.
Trump has neither the skills nor the personality to be regarded as human, but there he is.
You can hate him as a person, but his ability to maintain a cult of personality is impressive.
They think they’ll last 10 years before they’re ground into a paste.
Bruised hand you say? JD is slacking on his primary duty
Trump died at 11:58 pst
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Considering he already walks and talks like a badly animated corpse, I don’t think that would make much of a difference.
"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday that the president wears bandages on the back of his hand because he’s “literally constantly shaking hands.”
As if that were even a slightly reasonable explanation.
I have bandages on my finger tips because I type on a keyboard all day. Without these bandages, by fingers would fall off!
Lol
It’s called dying.
Not fast enough…
We all are
CNN host and an MD?
