Best explanation I've seen for these bandages over bruises is he is receiving an infusion intravenously every two weeks of a type of medication for dementia, like Leqembi or Kisunla. Patients on these drugs require regular MRIs to monitor brain swelling or bleeding. The drugs cause side effects of fatigue, cardiovascular changes, dizziness, etc. It doesn't stop dementia but it does slow it down.
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Please die by the next month.. please..
He has probably already forgotten his dementia diagnosis.
Why say something now, Jake? Why not wait until after his presidency? Then write a book about it? Then sell that book while you're doing your job on TV? Just a thought.
I’m $ure he ha$ hi$ rea$ons.
Because he's holding out for a spot when Trump dies. Everyone in the conservative sphere is circling the White House like sharks because they know half of everyone is gone as soon as Vance sits down - because half of them are in those seats on account of being friends with Trump and nothing more.
It really doesn't matter until he actually collapses to the floor. Even then they'll try to spin it into something positive "Mr. president was exhausted for working the hardest anyone has ever worked."
It is fun to watch him have mini strokes occasionally. The one video where you could see him testing his hands and his right side just didn’t respond was beautiful. Hope he gets trapped in his shitty body.
That's basically already their excuse for him falling asleep constantly.
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Is he dead yet?
I hear no cheering or fireworks, so I'm guessing he's not.
I got a nice bottle of booze waiting for the announcement
Whatever it is, I hope it hurts a lot.
I hope it's something serious but on the cusp of treatment, cancelled because he shut down the NIH.
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I'm so tired of this fucking story. This evil p.o.s is never going to die. We've been hearing Trump health/mind failing stories for like 10 fucking years already...
Wake me up when he's actually dead. Unfortunately he's probably going to outlive me and I'm only 39.
His age makes people complacent because they assume he's gonna die soon. Even if he does, I'm not sure it'll improve anything
Found Vance's account
I wish I was Vance, then I could kill myself and make the world a better place lol
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Bruised hand you say? JD is slacking on his primary duty
Can the doctors be sued and brought to testify under oath that Donald is perfectly healthy?
Perjury has actual consequences IIRC
Does it? Does perjury have real consequences when literally nothing else does?
I mean, we’ve watched multiple justices perjure themselves in national tv.
I believe that between doctor patient confidentiality and HIPAA, that will be quite difficult.
Imagine that your doctor was forced to give testimony on your health. Nobody would want that.
Patient records can be subpoenaed but the request has to be relevant to a case. the persons defense as well as the provider has the right to argue against the release, though their arguments can be overruled and the provider can be compelled to release records and testify as to your diagnosis, treatment, clinical observations, etc.
It’s wild how people will regularly assume HIPAA is some magic force that protects them from government overreach. It’s not, at all. I’m not specifically shitting on you because I see this claim repeated all the time, even just here in this thread. Your providers should make the limitations of HIPAA more clear to you. They’re probably more concerned with getting you in and out to maximize billable time bc fee for service billing is fucked. That’s a whole different nightmare
A priest during confessional has more protection from being compelled to testify than any doctor or therapist. They even have stronger protections than lawyers. Lawyer client privilege can be overturned if you are found to be abusing it to plan crimes. If you brag to a clergy about all the crimes you’re gonna do (though if they help they will be punished for helping, the confessional is still inadmissible and protected). They are even usually exempt from mandated reporter laws (even though they’re often in the highest risk categories for child sex abuse). It’s fucked that this country gives a pass to pedophiles to rape kids because of a historical precedent towards fucking nonsense; meanwhile the fields built on a base of evidence that need to build trust have a cornerstone of “oh the judicial system can compel me if you become their enemy but btw if you go to church you can literally confess to raping kids and the murder you’re planning and no one will rat you out”.
Source: work in healthcare and have had records subpoenaed (successfully fought off 2/3 attempts, fuck you government)
But granted they aren’t getting trumps records. No fucking way. Even if someone had the balls to charge him with something and claim they needed them as evidence he’d get the entire government to make sure that never happened, even if it meant falsifying or even destroying the documents
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I'm not in control of the most powerful military on the planet. Public servants need to be held to higher standards of accountability, including about personal health problems.
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File that one under "No Shit Sherlock." But he's going to dodder along for another 8 - 10 years.
"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday that the president wears bandages on the back of his hand because he's “literally constantly shaking hands.”
As if that were even a slightly reasonable explanation.
So ... he's using the back of his hands to shake hands ... of course he can't do that right either
I feel they're not giving a decent reason on purpose. Better to leave everyone discussing so they're distracted from the actual shit they're pulling
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No shit, Sherlock.
If he’s getting bruised from constantly shaking hands, is that enough of a fucking problem too?!
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He wants to be on a coin so badly, he'll die for it. I say we increase the incentive, and offer him a stamp, too, even though he probably hates stamps for some MAGA reason.
I really don’t understand why they always feel the need to cover up presidential health issues. I know the answer is “national security,” but how exactly is it secure to have a man in obvious mental and physical decline going around “shaking hands” with other world leaders? Just own up to it and have him die at Mar-a-lago playing golf like he probably wants. That was the whole point of having JD as a backup, right?
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Gawd, this douche, who clutched his pearls over...Biden.
FFS.
Wow solve any other capers by yourself there Nancy drew?
he’s literally shaking in his boots because if he doesn’t die in the white house he’ll die in prison
Trump won't see any prison time if he somehow survives his term. Let's not kid ourselves.
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I do hope it's serious
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