A cardiologist who advised the White House medical team under former President George W. Bush raised questions Friday over why the public doesn't know more about the wound Donald Trump suffered during the attempt on his life last weekend.
Dr. Jonathan Reiner told CNN's Erin Burnett on "OutFront" that "we've been told nothing" regarding the former president's injury. He acknowledged Trump, in accepting the GOP nomination, said that blood poured out of his ear while Secret Service agents shielded him.
Reiner said he feels it's important the public receives "full disclosure" about the former president's medical evaluation, such as whether early reports were true that he underwent a CT scan.
"Which would make a lot of sense," he said, "because you can get concussive energy transmitted by a bullet that close to your head. So was there any injury to his brain? Doesn't sound like it."
Reiner also said the public ought to know whether there was an ear injury that could require surgery or plastic surgery, or whether he'll need to take time away from the campaign.
"These are all important questions," he said, emphasizing that there's an even larger issue at play.
"I think the public needs to understand that if something happens to one of our leaders, we're going to be told," he said. "And we know nothing about his health. There've been questions about the current president's health. And it doesn't color me with confidence to see the president get an apparent impact from a high-velocity projectile, and then we learn nothing from the medical evaluation."
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Reiner later said it's important to know the overall status of the former president following an injury.
"If a candidate suddenly was drenched in sweat and grabbed their chest and then was rushed to a hospital, and all that the public was told is, 'yeah, they're ok. He's back at home. He's ok.' You know, we would say, 'Wow, well, what was done to evaluate him? Did he have a heart attack? Is something else going on?'"
He added that when it comes to Trump, if the bloody injury was mild, "that's fabulous."
If it was worse, "the public should know that."
