The strange tale of the doctor who declared Trump would be the healthiest president in history, just got stranger

Donald Trump’s doctor has said a letter that is the only public documentation of the Republican presidential candidate’s health was written in five minutes, and explained mistakes and unusual phrasing by saying: ‘I get anxious when I get rushed’

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Dr Harold Bornstein said he does not always write medical notes with such enthusiasm: ‘I think I picked up his kind of language and then I just interpreted it to my own’. Photo: NBC News

Published: 5:22pm, 28 Aug 2016Updated: 10:27pm, 28 Aug 2016

Donald Trump’s doctor has finally spoken out in an interview. But his comments aren’t likely to end the questions about the strange letter he drafted last year declaring Trump would be the healthiest president in history.

NBC News tracked down Dr Harold Bornstein, who said in the interview that he crafted Trump’s doctor letter in only about five minutes - declaring his patient healthier than all 43 American presidents - while a limousine waited impatiently outside for him to finish.

“I thought about it all day and at the end, I get rushed, and I get anxious when I get rushed,” Bornstein said. “So I try to get four or five lines down as fast as possible so that they would be happy.

“I’ve got five minutes to sit right at this desk and write that letter while the driver waited for me.”

EXCLUSIVE: @realDonaldTrump doc says he picked up Trump's language in health letter & 'interpreted it into my own.' pic.twitter.com/wb3pMPmO2C

— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) August 26, 2016

Needless to say, this isn’t a fantastic way to write a sober-minded review of the health of a now-70-year-old man who could soon lead the free world. And Bornstein’s letter raised roughly as many questions as it tried to answer, given the errors and typos it contained and the fact that it read, well, a lot like something Trump himself would write.