Top Doctor Challenges Trump’s Heart Attack Claim

Kent Nishimura/AFP via Getty Images CNN medical analyst Dr.

Jonathan Reiner is calling BS on Donald Trump after the president claimed his White House doctors would let a rally attendee die of a heart attack rather than leave his side.

Trump made the remarks in Bullhead City, Arizona, on Wednesday, veering into an unusual hypothetical about what would happen if someone in the audience suffered a medical emergency.

“I travel with more doctors than any human being.

If people get sick in the audience, they don’t, they leave them alone,” Trump told the crowd.

The president then singled out an attendee, suggesting the man looked as though he might have a heart attack, before claiming his medical team would refuse to intervene.

“You know what they call ’em? Collateral damage.

If that person right over there, a friend of mine.

He looks like s--t, actually.

He looks like he’s ready to have a heart attack.

If he actually had a heart attack, you know what my doctors would do that follow the president, all presidents? They would leave him alone,” Trump claimed.

The president continued by imagining himself pleading with his doctors to save the man, only to be rebuffed by staff insisting they could not leave Trump’s side.

“I’d say, ‘Please help him.’ ‘No, sir.

We can’t leave your side,’ I said, ‘But he’s dying of a heart attack.’ ‘Sir, he’s collateral damage.’ Can you believe it?” Reiner, a CNN medical analyst who previously served as former Vice President Dick Cheney’s cardiologist, was quick to challenge the account, saying the president’s version of events bore no resemblance to how White House medical personnel operate.