--- title: Bodyguard Took Donald Trump's Medical Files, Doctor Says description: Dr. Harold Bornstein said President Donald Trump's bodyguard took all of the President's medical records in a "raid" after the inauguration. canonical: https://time.com/5261596/donald-trump-medical-files-raid-doctor-harold-bornstein/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-05-01T17:19:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-12T20:12:39.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Bodyguard Took Donald Trump's Medical Files, Doctor Says og:description: The alleged "raid" came day after the inauguration og:url: https://time.com/5261596/donald-trump-medical-files-raid-doctor-harold-bornstein/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt599644540473394c/69892f444ee26238f1311acb/harold-bornstein-president-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2405 og:image:height: 1353 og:image:alt: Trump Doctor Harold Bornstein og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Bodyguard Took Donald Trump's Medical Files, Doctor Says twitter:description: The alleged "raid" came day after the inauguration twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt599644540473394c/69892f444ee26238f1311acb/harold-bornstein-president-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Trump Bodyguard Took President's Personal Medical Files in 'Raid' After Inauguration, Doctor Says > Sponsored content. 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Dr. Harold Bornstein, personal physician to Donald Trump arrives at his office on Dec. 15, 2015.Joe Marino—NY Daily News/Getty Images by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Updated: Dec 12, 2023 8:12 PM UTCPublished: May 1, 2018 5:19 PM UTC President Donald Trump’s longtime bodyguard showed up without notice at the office of Trump’s personal doctor shortly after inauguration and took all of the President’s medical records, the doctor told [NBC News](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-doc-says-trump-bodyguard-lawyer-raided-his-office-took-n870351) on Tuesday. Then-White House aide [Keith Schiller](http://time.com/4642005/trump-inauguration-inner-circle-scavino-hicks/), who previously served as Trump’s personal bodyguard, Trump Organization lawyer Alan Garten and another “large man” came unannounced and took the files on the morning of Feb. 3, 2017, Dr. Harold Bornstein said. “They must have been here for 25 or 30 minutes. It created a lot of chaos,” Bornstein said. The incident, which Bornstein described as a “raid,” came two days after he [told the New York _Times_](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/us/politics/trump-prostate-drug-hair-harold-bornstein.html) that Trump takes Propecia, a drug often prescribed to stimulate hair growth in men, as well as other drugs for rosacea, a skin problem, and elevated cholesterol. Speaking at the daily press briefing, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that taking the records was “standard operating procedure” for a new president. Bornstein gained attention in 2016 for saying that Trump would be the [healthiest president in history](http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/263146-doctor-trump-will-be-healthiest-president-ever) and for writing a one-page summary of his medical history that Trump [released on the “Dr. Oz Show.” ](http://time.com/4495732/donald-trump-oz-health-records/) He later justified the line by saying that the other presidents were [“either sick or dead.”](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-doctor-wrote-health-letter-just-5-minutes-limo-waited-n638526) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5261596/donald-trump-medical-files-raid-doctor-harold-bornstein/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5261596/donald-trump-medical-files-raid-doctor-harold-bornstein/"},"headline":"Trump Bodyguard Took President's Personal Medical Files in 'Raid' After Inauguration, Doctor Says","datePublished":"2018-05-01T17:19:23.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-12T20:12:39.000Z","description":"The alleged \"raid\" came day after the inauguration","url":"https://time.com/5261596/donald-trump-medical-files-raid-doctor-harold-bornstein/","keywords":["Donald Trump","White House","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt599644540473394c/69892f444ee26238f1311acb/harold-bornstein-president-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ryan Teague Beckwith","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt599644540473394c/69892f444ee26238f1311acb/harold-bornstein-president-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Trump Doctor Harold Bornstein","caption":"Trump Doctor Harold Bornstein","creditText":"Joe Marino—NY Daily News/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5261596/donald-trump-medical-files-raid-doctor-harold-bornstein/","name":"Trump Bodyguard Took President's Personal Medical Files in 'Raid' After Inauguration, Doctor Says"}}]}] ```