{"id":43186,"date":"2020-06-16T01:23:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T01:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43186"},"modified":"2020-06-16T01:23:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T01:23:18","slug":"is-health-a-campaign-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43186","title":{"rendered":"Is health a campaign issue?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23POTUS%20%23medicalhealth&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/don.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42903\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/don-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/don-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/don-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/don-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/don.jpg 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald John Trump seems to take some measure of joy in poking fun at opponents&#8217; medical health, usually with baseless allegations that they possess limited &#8220;stamina&#8221; or &#8220;mental capacity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He did so in 2016 while running against Hillary Clinton; he is likely to do it again in 2020 while campaigning against Joseph Biden.<\/p>\n<p>OK, then. Is it fair to ask whether Donald Trump is in top form?<\/p>\n<p>I ask because of reports that came out of his West Point, N.Y., commencement appearance before graduating U.S. Military Academy cadets. You likely have seen the video of Trump lifting a glass of water to his mouth; he started to hoist the glass with one hand, then had to guide it toward his mouth with <em>both hands<\/em>. Then came his exit from the podium, down a ramp in which Trump seemed unsure on his feet, walking extra-gingerly.<\/p>\n<p>Do you recall when Trump went to the hospital for an undisclosed matter? He hasn&#8217;t spoken publicly about why he showed up for that event; nor has the White House issued a statement. Hmm. Makes me wonder whether Donald Trump is as fit as White House docs have proclaimed him to be.<\/p>\n<p>It also makes me wonder whether Donald Trump is hiding something from the public.<\/p>\n<p>If he is healthy, then there needs to be a complete release of his medical records, replete with exams from physicians who will attest to his good health.<\/p>\n<p>However, if there are medical issues to be revealed, then we need to know that, too.<\/p>\n<p>If Trump is going to keep his medical condition from Americans, then he ought to keep his trap shut about the medical health of his foes.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23POTUS%20%23medicalhealth&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald John Trump seems to take some measure of joy in poking fun at opponents&#8217; medical health, usually with baseless allegations that they possess limited &#8220;stamina&#8221; or &#8220;mental capacity.&#8221; He did so in 2016 while running against Hillary Clinton; he is likely to do it again in 2020 while campaigning against Joseph Biden. OK, then. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43186\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is health a campaign issue?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[1424,9413],"class_list":["post-43186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-medical-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43187,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43186\/revisions\/43187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}