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No, You Don't Need to See President Trump's Medical Records

When it comes to the health of the president of the United States, the point isn’t just to score points, to spotlight weaknesses or flaws for their own sake. It’s not actually useful to nyah-nyah at a president who claims to be physically strong but is not. The point is letting voters have an accurate picture of who they’re voting for. And when it comes to Trump, no matter whether you support or oppose him, you know the drill. “We don’t need to be looking at tea leaves. We have his tweets. We have his off-the-cuff statements,” Brown says. “We don’t need the same kind of transparency or information, because he’s giving it to us.” The accurate picture already exists. He painted it himself.

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