(NBC NEWS) - Back in February 2017, a top White House aide who was Trump's longtime personal bodyguard, along with the top lawyer at the Trump Organization and a third man, showed up at the office of Trump's New York doctor without notice and took all the president's medical records.
In an exclusive interview in his Park Avenue office, Dr. Harold N. Bornstein told NBC News that he felt "raped, frightened and sad" when Keith Schiller and another "large man" came to his office to collect the president's records on the morning of Feb. 3, 2017.
A framed 8-by-10 photo of Bornstein and Trump that had been hanging on the wall in the waiting room now lies flat under a stack of papers on the top shelf of Bornstein's bookshelf.
Bornstein said the men asked him to take it off the wall. Bornstein said he was not given a form authorizing the release of the records and signed by the president known as a HIPAA release — which is a violation of patient privacy law.
Bornstein, 70, had been Trump's personal doctor for more than 35 years.
During Trump's presidential campaign, Bornstein wrote a letter declaring "unequivocally" that Trump would be the healthiest president in history. He called Trump's health "astonishingly excellent."
The Trump campaign released the letter in December 2015. In his recent interview, Bornstein told NBC News that the language in the letter actually came from Trump.
"He wrote it himself," he said.
