White
House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders dismissed questions about
President Trump’s slurred speech at the daily press briefing on
Thursday, noting that the president is scheduled for a physical early
next year.
The
president will undergo an examination at the Walter Reed National
Military Medical Center in the “first part of next year,” Sanders
said. “Those records will be released following that taking place.”
Sanders’
comments came at the very end of Thursday’s briefing. After first
concluding the briefing, the White House spokesperson returned to the
podium when a reporter shouted a question about the president’s
Wednesday speech where he seemed to briefly struggle with his
enunciation.
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“The
president’s throat was dry, nothing more than that,” Sanders said,
dismissing the line of inquiry as “frankly pretty ridiculous.”
The comments echo a similar statement by White House spokesperson Raj Shah to the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday: “His throat was dry. There’s nothing to it.”
Per
tradition, presidents typically examined by doctors annually, with the
results released to the public. Should Trump follow suit, it would be
the first comprehensive look at the president’s health made available
aside from a one-page statement of good health from his longtime
personal physician, released in 2015.
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