White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said it was “standard operating procedure” for the White House medical unit to take possession of the president’s medical records once he became president, after President Trump’s former physician said his office was raided for those records.
“It would be standard operating procedure for the … newly elected president’s medical records to be in possession by the White House medical unit, and that’s what was taking place, is those records were being transferred over to the White House medical unit as requested,” Sanders told reporters during Tuesday’s White House press briefing.
Sanders was responding to remarks Dr. Harold Bornstein, Trump’s longtime doctor, made to NBC News. Bornstein said a “raid” occurred at his Park Avenue office in February 2017 and said Trump’s former bodyguard Keith Schiller and Trump Organization Chief Legal Officer Alan Garten took Trump’s medical records.
Sanders rejected the characterization that the action by Schiller’s team was a “raid.”
At the time of the incident, Schiller was working as director of Oval Office Operations at the White House, though he left that post in September.
Bornstein told NBC News the event occurred two days after an article was published in the New York Times that featured Bornstein saying Trump took a drug for hair growth.
