Trump campaign manager on medical records: 'We all have a right to privacy'
Which one is it? Donald Trump wants Hillary Clinton to release detailed medical records, but his campaign manager highlighted the importance of privacy Tuesday.
“I don’t know why we need such extensive medical reporting when we all have a right to privacy,” Kellyanne Conway told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell. Mitchell had brought up the brief letter that Trump's doctor had released in December.
But in that same conversation Conway blasted the Clinton campaign for not being transparent about the fact that the Democratic nominee had been diagnosed with pneumonia.
“Why in the world did Hillary Clinton lie to everyone and conceal such an important fact for two days? Saying she was overheated and dehydrated and then of course hours and hours later after her health had become the biggest trending story of the day not the 9/11 fallen. Why wait all those hours?” Conway said. “So I agree with you it’s an important issue. And I think that there’s one candidate in this race who has had recent health challenges," she said, referring to Clinton.
Last month, Trump called on Clinton to release “detailed medical records.”
On Sunday, video from outside a 9/11 memorial ceremony in New York, which Clinton left early, showed her knees buckling as she attempted to get into a vehicle. Later, Clinton campaign said she had been diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday and the episode was the result of dehydration and overheating.
Clinton canceled campaign events Monday and Tuesday and has been home resting. Her team has acknowledged the handling of the health episode could have been done “better” and announced that she would release more medical information in the coming days.
Trump is supposed to release the results of a physical from last week on an appearance on The Dr. Oz Show that will be taped Wednesday but air Thursday, according to Fox News.
But Mehmet Oz, in a radio interview with Fox News Radio's Kilmeade & Friends Tuesday, said if Trump has embarrassing results, “I bet he won’t release them.”
Oz also vowed not to ask Trump any questions “he doesn’t want to have answered, and I also don’t want to talk about anybody else.”
During Conway’s MSNBC appearance she said she wasn’t sure if Dr. Harold Bornstein — the author of the four paragraph doctor’s letter that said Trump’s health was "astonishingly excellent" — was the one who performed the physical.