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struggle4progress

(125,081 posts)
Sat Oct 25, 2025, 06:50 PM Saturday

Leavitt stumped when asked about mystery health scan

Karoline Leavitt has sparked further speculation about the president's health after being unable to answer exactly what type of scans he had during his recent early physical

by Reanna Smith
07:30 ET, Oct 24 2025

... Earlier this month, Donald Trump had his second physical of the year at the Walter Reed Medical Center. During the checkup, the 79-year-old underwent "advanced imaging, laboratory testing, and preventative health assessments conducted by a multidisciplinary team of specialists," according to a memo written by White House physician Capt. Sean Barbabella.

But pressed as to what type of advanced imaging the president had during a White House press briefing on Thursday, Leavitt provided a bumbling answer. “Advanced imaging is something that presidents receive and people receive when they go to the doctor, and so we provided a detailed readout of that physical, and I would encourage you back for that,” she said ...

https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/karoline-leavitt-stumped-trump-health-36126544.amp

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Leavitt stumped when asked about mystery health scan (Original Post) struggle4progress Saturday OP
If it eas a brain scan I'm sure they found nothing. CentralMass Saturday #1
DUzy! Bernardo de La Paz Saturday #3
"encourage you back for that": fractured English shows she's flustered and hiding something. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Saturday #2
The Baskin John's of Press Secretaries C_U_L8R Saturday #4
"Would you repeat that in... ret5hd Saturday #5
Speaking of Leavitty..sheer nonsense. BattleRow Saturday #9
she is so fucking ridiculous Skittles Saturday #10
I thought that Ari Fleischer would never be topped for sheer dishonesty. 11 Bravo Saturday #11
Artificial Intelligence comes to mind.. BattleRow Saturday #14
We know that Trump received a CT scan as part of his emergency hospital assessment Tanuki Saturday #6
I'd be more surprised is she wasn't stumped by a question EdmondDantes_ Saturday #7
Did they break the robot? DBoon Saturday #8
What would have been a laugh riot Aviation Pro Saturday #12
They pumped about 200 pounds of pig shit out of him Orrex Saturday #13

ret5hd

(21,902 posts)
5. "Would you repeat that in...
Sat Oct 25, 2025, 07:09 PM
Saturday

a language that we have in common, because that made no sense to my ears.”

Skittles

(168,306 posts)
10. she is so fucking ridiculous
Sat Oct 25, 2025, 09:18 PM
Saturday

she's worse than all previous repuke press secs combined

11 Bravo

(24,222 posts)
11. I thought that Ari Fleischer would never be topped for sheer dishonesty.
Sat Oct 25, 2025, 09:33 PM
Saturday

Then came Sean Spicer, and I thought that surely the trophy had been retired.
But Lyin' Leavitt blows them all completely out of the water.

Tanuki

(16,145 posts)
6. We know that Trump received a CT scan as part of his emergency hospital assessment
Sat Oct 25, 2025, 07:22 PM
Saturday

following the Butler shooting incident. That was mentioned in passing in Ronny Jackson's whitewashing of the medical report, and although there was obviously nothing relevant to the shooting, I wondered at the time why nobody questioned whether it revealed anything that might be related to his declining cognitive status, e.g. diffuse cerebral white matter disease. Maybe the doctors found something like that and recommended a followup or "advanced" (e.g. PET scan) imaging in the future (which is now). Also, an MRI is much better than a CT for detecting white matter disease, so it could have been recommended if some evidence was found on the initial CT. 🤔
If he had a "clean" CT scan at the Butler hospital, his handlers wouldn't have felt the need to filter it through Ronny Jackson. What have they been hiding for the past year, and what are they hiding now?

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/20/trump-shooting-doctor-letter-00169963

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/23018-white-matter-disease

EdmondDantes_

(1,053 posts)
7. I'd be more surprised is she wasn't stumped by a question
Sat Oct 25, 2025, 07:34 PM
Saturday

At least one that didn't come from a fawning right wing media source.

Aviation Pro

(14,958 posts)
12. What would have been a laugh riot
Sat Oct 25, 2025, 09:34 PM
Saturday

Is if the fucking child rapist had to do a nuclear stress test. The walking shitbag would last no more than 15 seconds.

Orrex

(66,288 posts)
13. They pumped about 200 pounds of pig shit out of him
Sat Oct 25, 2025, 09:48 PM
Saturday

because they can only remove 20% per session.

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