Sanders - Medical Records

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Jennifer Rubin - The Washington Post...

“Will Democrats stand up to the bully on their own side?”


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“Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) at the CNN town hall Tuesday night confirmed what he told MSNBC’s Chuck Todd recently: He will not, on second thought, release his full medical records as he promised after the 78-year-old had a heart attack last fall. Social media erupted with objections, with many journalists pointing out that it was hardly unreasonable to demand that he fulfill his promise.

On CNN Wednesday morning, the Sanders campaign unleashed its press secretary, Briahna Joy Gray, to launch attacks on journalists and make unsupportable claims about other candidates. Gray declared the effort to hold Sanders to his promise to be a “smear” akin to birtherism (“And what you’re seeing right now is really reminiscent of some of the kind of smear, kind of skepticism campaigns that have been run against a lot of different candidates in the past. Questioning where they’re from, aspects of their lineage, etc.”).

She declared this to be part of a "smear campaign from the likes of Jennifer Rubin, [who] is one that has been beating this drum a lot, Republicans who if they were honest with themselves don’t support Bernie Sanders for other reasons, largely, for the same reasons that millions of working Americans do support Bernie, which is that he supports social programs that prioritize Main Street over Wall Street and has, yes, made a lot of enemies in the pharmaceutical industry and the health insurance industry and all of the interest groups whose interests are aligned against those of average Americans.”

It is not clear why she chose to single me out, rather than the many other journalists making the same point about his broken promise, or accuse without a shred of evidence that I am part of a “smear campaign.” What is clear is that no other campaign behaves in this fashion, singling out journalists and labeling legitimate questions as “smears" — well, other than President Trump’s ongoing war with the media.

Gray also asserted without evidence that “Michael Bloomberg, who’s the same age as Bernie Sanders . . . has suffered heart attacks in the past.” In 2007, a Bloomberg surrogate informed the New York Times, “Before he was elected mayor in 2001, Michael R. Bloomberg had surgery to have two stents implanted in a coronary artery because of blockage in his heart.” There is no evidence he had a heart attack, let alone multiple attacks. Bloomberg’s campaign spokeswoman told me that he had never had a heart attack.”


Let me see, I believe the time 2001 to 2020 is longer than October 2019 to February 2020.

Hillary did release her medical records.

If you remember, the trump misinformation machine took some minor incident  and ramped it up that if she looked crossed eyed at someone it was proof that she had one foot in the grave.  

Unlike trump who dictated to his doctor what to say and he passed that off as his medical records.