Jake Tapper Rejects White House Reason For Trump’s Bruises: ‘There Is Something Going On’ | EUROtoday

CNN host Jake Tapper isn’t shopping for the official White House rationalization for President Donald Trump sporting bandages on the again of his hand, arguing on “The Lead” that there’s extra to the president’s well being image than has been revealed.

Tapper mentioned the matter with CNN chief political analyst David Axelrod and ex-Trump aide Alyssa Farah Griffin after White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt advised reporters Thursday that Trump wears the bandages on account of “constantly shaking hands.”

“The White House gave the same explanation for bruising back in July,” Tapper mentioned Thursday. “Obviously, he’s 79 years old. And there is something going on with his health that they’re not telling us, because otherwise, why did he have that MRI?”

Trump visited the Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, in October for his second “yearly” check-up in six months, later boasting to reporters that the outcomes had been “outstanding” — earlier than claiming that he truly has “no idea what they analyzed.”

Axelrod famous that this lack of transparency from the administration is “a common theme.”

“A lot of extraordinary things have happened when the president of the United States has an MRI and can’t remember or name what part of the body the MRI was about,” he advised Tapper. “There are questions, there are issues here.”

“And the question is whether the American people deserve to know,” he continued. “They were raised relative to [former President Joe] Biden, [and] they should be raised now, because clearly something’s going on.”

Tapper reminded his visitors that Trump is an open germaphobe who has publicly admitted that he doesn’t like shaking fingers and requested them how a lot confidence they’ve within the official hand-shaking rationalization about his bandages.

“I think that there’s going to have to be a better answer,” Griffin advised Tapper. “What happens with this, we’ve seen it before, is the rumors and the speculation must take on a life of their own if there’s not some sort of a clear medical answer.”

The conservative “View” co-host continued, “But I think we’ve seen enough from the first Trump term and as far as we are in now, that we’re not going to get a whole lot more information than what we’ve gotten so far.”

The White House beforehand mentioned Trump’s bruises are the results of a “benign and common condition,” confirming in July that he was identified with persistent venous insufficiency, which purportedly additionally defined the seen swelling of his decrease legs.

Tapper and Axelrod each talked about that the American individuals have by no means seen “bruising like this” on the fingers of some other U.S. president, so there’s a warranted cause to pursue a convincing reply.

“How about the truth?” Axelrod requested. “How about facts? That would be good.”