Donald Trump disclosed new health records during the taping of a medical chat show set to air Thursday, the same day his White House rival Hillary Clinton returns to the fray after being grounded by pneumonia.
With both candidates under pressure to share more medical data, Team Trump had raised — then dropped — the possibility of releasing the results of a recent physical during an appearance on “The Dr. Oz Show.”
During recording of the segment Wednesday morning, Trump finally did present its celebrity host with results from an examination performed last week, according to a statement on the show’s website.
In a snippet teased on the site, Mehmet Oz — who is also a professor of surgery at Columbia University in New York — is seen asking Trump:
If your health is as strong as it seems… why not show your medical records?
“Well, I have really no problem in doing it,” the 70-year-old Trump responds. “I have it right here. Should I do it? I don’t care.”
The Republican nominee goes on to pull the documents from his pocket, to cheers and applause from the show audience.
“As all physicians do when seeing a patient for the first time, Dr. Oz took Mr. Trump through a full review of systems,” the show’s statement said.
It said their hour-long one-one-one interview touched on Trump’s cardiovascular health, family medical history and history of cancer, among other topics.
So far Trump had released only four paragraphs, written hastily by his doctor Harold Bornstein in December 2015, gushing about his state of health.
Following the revelation that Clinton, 68, was suffering from pneumonia, Trump vowed soon to release “very, very specific numbers” from a recent check-up with Bornstein.
Trump’s Democratic rival was at home in Chappaqua, New York for a third straight day Wednesday, recovering from a health scare that has rocked her bid to become America’s first woman president.
She was forced to leave a 9/11 memorial event in New York on Sunday and was seen stumbling limp-legged into a Secret Service vehicle.
Clinton’s personal physician only later disclosed she had been diagnosed with pneumonia two days earlier, raising questions about her campaign’s transparency.
Trump’s media-savvy disclosure — regardless of how much substance the records contain — will further up the pressure on her to share more health data as she returns to the trail Thursday.
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