Kellyanne Conway Insists Trump, Who Recently Called For Clinton’s Medical Records, Has A ‘Right To Privacy’

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In an interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Tuesday, Donald Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway attempted to shift questions about her candidates’ vague-yet-glowing statement of health onto his Democratic opponent. “Mr. Trump had a physical late last week, in advance of us knowing Hillary Clinton had pneumonia,” she said, promising that the full report will be released later this week.

Conway wouldn’t confirm or deny whether Dr. Harold Bornstein — Trump’s longtime doctor who claims he hastily wrote his short and boisterous assessment of his patient’s health in five minutes while an impatient limousine waited outside — conducted the exam. “I don’t know, I wasn’t present for his physical,” she said with an evasive smile.

However, the Republican strategist did remind viewers that her candidate would be discussing the results of his exam with Dr. Oz, a television doctor who has promised he is not going to ask Trump any questions that he doesn’t want to answer. “I’m with Dr. Oz and millions of Americans on this,” Conway said. “I don’t know why we need such extensive medical reporting when we all have a right to privacy.” What Conway doesn’t mention is that Trump recently called for Clinton to release “detailed” records and said he’d do the same.

Mitchell pushed forward and attempted to explain that the right to privacy doesn’t necessarily extend to those who are in a general election campaign to lead the country. “There is a tradition here, started many decades ago … that the American people have a right to know what the health is of their prospective Commander-in-Chief,” she said.

Conway seized her opening. “I agree with your premise, and so the question remains, why did Hillary Clinton lie to everyone and conceal such an important fact for two days?” she smirked. “So I agree with you, it’s an important issue.”

Mitchell played an audio clip of Clinton’s response to criticism that she hid her pneumonia from voters — and even some of her staffers. “Compare everything you know about me, with my opponent,” Clinton told Anderson Cooper. “You’ve got a medical report on me that meets the same standard as Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. Donald Trump’s doctor said he’d be ‘the healthiest president in history.’ That’s just not even serious.”

“What are we going to get tomorrow?” Mitchell asked Conway. “How specific will the information be about [Trump’s] physical condition?” Conway replied that she didn’t know. “I haven’t confirmed with the doctor,” she shrugged.