The White House released a statement from Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington D.C. on Monday to claim the “president” had a “routine” checkup. However, Donald Trump had a physical in February, and he claimed to be going through this physical in parts, and through different years. Part of his physical was allegedly just done and he will finish it in 2020. Trump’s unscheduled visit to Walter Reed just doesn’t add up, and the deputy chief of staff for operations in the Obama administration isn’t buying it either.
Jim Messina was interviewed Monday on MSNBC’s “The Last Word” by host Lawrence O’Donnell and referenced the statement paid liar Stephanie Grisham released from the White House physician.
Memorandum from the President’s Physician pic.twitter.com/yzkjqCBBHc
— Stephanie Grisham (@PressSec) November 19, 2019
“You know how doctors deal with physical exams,” O’Donnell said. “How does this all read to you?”
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“Not great, Lawrence,” Messina responded. “If you look at the statement, they said, routine planned visit, and then one sentence later said, because of scheduling irregularities, we did this, we wanted it all to be off the record. You can’t have both of those things be true.”
Messina noted that the “president” would not have gone to Walter Reed for a routine check-up.
“If it was a routine planned thing, you never would do it at Walter Reed — you would have done all that stuff at the White House facilities, which are state of the art and amazing,” he said. “If it was just routine stuff, you never would have taken him out.”
“And if you were going to take him for a routine visit to Walter Reed, you would have announced it, you would have had a photo op with the troops, you would have done a bunch of things that are regular to do,” he continued.
Messina also noted Trump’s credibility problem because the “president” lies so much.
“The second problem, Lawrence, this is the problem when you have a White House who lies about everything, is you can’t believe them about anything,” Messina said. “You just have an absolute sense that all of this is lying and when you trot out a 10:00 p.m. memo from a doctor, you know they’re likely worried about something, and the problem is the truth is probably that there is something nefarious going on.”
“And Jim — quickly, before we go — there is this additional element of, we have not seen the president,” O’Donnell said. “And when this controversy erupts, one of the first things I think you would do is say, let’s get the president on camera, let’s show him, let’s show that he’s doing just fine. And Donald Trump inviting in the cameras is something they do all the time, but not since he’s gone to the hospital.”
Messina said Trump being on camera is “his favorite thing in the world,” and added that it’s something “he loves more than breathing, so the easiest thing would be to trot him out at the White House and do a quick photo op. And why didn’t they do that?”
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Yeah, none of this makes sense.
Visited a great family of a young man under major surgery at the amazing Walter Reed Medical Center. Those are truly some of the best doctors anywhere in the world. Also began phase one of my yearly physical. Everything very good (great!). Will complete next year.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 17, 2019
How is this a routine planned check-up that was also unscheduled? Nothing makes sense in this “administration,” not even the “president” having a physical. And why is the White House physician writing the letter instead of the doctor at Walter Reed?
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