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Hello and welcome to the weeds on the Vox Media Podcast Network.

I'm Dara Lind, I'm here with Sarah Cliff and Vox Science reporter Brian Resnick, who's

been on the weeds before, talking about things that are very different from the things

we're talking about today.

You know, a week that's had a lot of things going on, something that maybe got less attention

weirdly than it should have given the pace of news was that earlier this week, the president's

personal doctor from before he was president Harold Borenstein.

A colorful man.

A colorful character.

I am not unconvinced that this is not Eugene Levy in a wig from a Christopher Guest

movie, but Harold Borenstein came back and accused Trump associates of raiding his office

and stealing President Trump's medical records a few months into his presidency back in 2017

and be admitted that his famous letter from the campaign saying that Trump would be the

healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency had not been the result of a serious

medical examination.

What?

And if it's dictated by Donald Trump in 10 minutes sitting in the car with Dr. Borenstein

between this and the revelations about Ronnie Jackson, who was the president's personal

doctor after he was inaugurated, which, well, they may not cast the same kind of aspersions,

certainly raise questions about Jackson as someone who kissed up and kicked down and therefore

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