On Sunday, Clinton’s campaign released a statement about the presidential candidate’s condition.
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The Democratic presidential candidate made an unscheduled exit from the September 11 ceremony in NY on Sunday in the US.
Clinton has been “advised to rest and modify her schedule”, and was put on antibiotics on Friday, her doctor said.
Clinton’s doctor reported she is fully recovered from the concussion, which led to temporary double vision and discovery of a blood clot in a vein in the space between her brain and skull. Clinton had spent about an hour and a half at the ceremony before leaving.
Bardack says Clinton has been experiencing a cough related to allergies, and in a follow-up examination Friday of her cough, Clinton was diagnosed with pneumonia. While at this morning’s event, she became overheated and dehydrated.
Video footage showed the candidate stumble as she was helped into her vehicle, and she needed to be held up on both sides by members of her entourage. Many people her age need a week or more to recover from even a mild case of pneumonia, said Dr. Sharon Bergquist, an Emory University assistant professor of medicine who specializes in internal medicine.
In 2015, when Clinton released the letter from Bardack, an internist and Clinton’s doctor since 2001, her campaign touted that she was the first presidential candidate to release a health history.
The Democratic nominee left the memorial early Sunday because she felt “overheated”, according to her campaign. Her campaign has also been fighting allegations from Mr Trump and his supporters that she is seriously unwell and trying to hide something from the public. She departed a short time later, saying she was “feeling great”.
She briefly posed for a photograph with a young girl.
Fox cited a witness who said Clinton stumbled off the curb while her “knees buckled” and also lost a shoe while being helped into the van.
A Democratic congressman who stood behind Hillary Clinton at a September 11 memorial ceremony says he chatted with the Democratic candidate beforehand and that “she did not seem out of the ordinary at all” although the conditions were “stiflingly hot”. “I think Hillary’s exhausted. she looks sick”, he told Fox News Sunday, accusing the mainstream media of hiding evidence and urging people to Google “Hillary Clinton illness” to find support for his theory.
“There are times in all of our lives when we don’t feel well”, he said. “I think on the one hand, it is part of the wacky strategy, just say all these insane things and maybe you can get some people to believe you”.
“We were begging for some kind of wind”, Crowley added.
Clinton exited the apartment on her own shortly before noon. So far, she has not allowed reporters into fundraisers and released less information about her donors than Obama.
For months, Trump’s supporters have tried to make the case that Clinton is physically unfit for the White House, citing a concussion she sustained in December 2012 after fainting. Spokesman Nick Merrill eventually said she had gone to her daughter’s nearby apartment, but refused to say whether the former secretary of state had required medical attention.
Clinton’s current bout with pneumonia does not negate the fact that as secretary of state she withstood an extensive travel schedule and maintained good health. “I missed some of the briefings immediately after 9/11 because I wasn’t feeling well”.
Clinton arrived at the event at around 8 a.m. and left at around 9:30 a.m.
Clinton’s campaign had remained silent for about an hour as speculation intensified about her abrupt departure.
The question was repeated a moment later, when she was asked point blank if she was feeling better.
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Hillary Clinton unexpectedly left Sunday’s 9/11 anniversary ceremony in NY after feeling “overheated” and retreated to her daughter’s nearby apartment.
