President’s former doctor says 3 Trump associates ‘raided’ his office

NEW YORK – President Donald Trump’s former New York doctor said he felt “raped, frightened and sad” when three Trump associates turned up at his office in February of last year and took all of the president’s medical records without warning.

Dr. Harold Bornstein, in an interview with NBC News, recalled the morning of Feb. 3, 2017, when Trump Organization chief legal officer Alan Garten, Trump’s personal bodyguard Keith Schiller, and a third “large” man “raided” his office and took lab reports and Trump’s medical charts.

“They must have been here for 25 or 30 minutes,” Bornstein told NBC. “It created a lot chaos.”

Schiller, who left the White House in 2017, at the time was serving as the director of Oval Office operations.

The 70-year-old doctor said Schiller never offered an explanation, but noted the incident did occur just two days after he told the New York Times he’d prescribed the president medication for hair growth.

Trump cut ties with Bornstein shortly after the article. He’d been Trump’s personal doctor for more than 35 years.

“I couldn’t believe anybody was making a big deal out of a drug to grow his hair that seemed to be so important,” he told NBC.

“And it was certainly not a breach of medical trust to tell somebody they take Propecia to grow their hair. What’s the matter with that?”

The New York doctor also noted Schiller never provided a form authorizing the release of the records, signed by the president – which is a violation of patient privacy law.

Trump’s then-White House physician, Ronny Jackson, reportedly wrote a letter to Bornstein approving the records’ release, a source told the news station, but it’s unclear whether there was a release form attached.

“As is standard operating procedure for a new president, the White House medical unit took possession of the president’s medical records,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said during the daily press briefing Tuesday.

Bornstein said he decided to speak out after seeing reports accusing Jackson of loosely prescribing pain medications while serving as the White House physician.

Trump had nominated Jackson to serve as Veterans Affairs secretary, but Jackson withdrew his nomination amid allegations that also include inappropriate professional conduct and creating a hostile work environment.

Jackson has denied the accusations raised against him.

“This is like a celebration for me,” said Bornstein, who has previously expressed interest in taking on the role of White House physician.

During the presidential campaign, Bornstein in a letter released by the Trump campaign in 2015 declared “unequivocally” that Trump would be the healthiest president ever.

He later admitted he penned the note in just a few minutes while a limo sent by then-candidate Trump waited outside his office.