Exactly.  I can understand putting down a dog for killing chickens when growing up in farm country. My dad put down a dog for doing the same, though he didn't shoot it.   But recording it in a book that you were hoping would launch your national political career was stupid beyond belief.     Did her editor or proof readers, maybe even family and friends reading the pre-published transcript not say, " wait honey, ya better not put that in the book".

It would be prudent for Trump to choose someone from a State like Virginia, Michigan, Wisconsin, New Mexico, or Arizona.

Ultrasound techs don't do cancer diagnoses.  They are not doctors.