Clinton’s spokesman Nick Merrill eventually said Clinton had gone to her daughter’s nearby apartment, but refused to say whether the former secretary of state had required medical attention.
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The incident, which the campaign initially attributed to the former secretary of state becoming “overheated” at the Ground Zero ceremony in NY, comes less than two months before Election Day, and just two weeks before she faces GOP rival Donald Trump in their first televised debate.
Hillary Clinton has cancelled a two-day trip to California starting from Monday after the Democratic presidential candidate was diagnosed with pneumonia and has been advised to rest by her doctor.
When asked if two Tuesday fundraisers in the Beverly Hills area would be held without Clinton present, Miryam Lipper, a regional communications director for the campaign, told City News Service, “No update on that right now”.
‘When (the van) finally rolled up my source said she stumbled off the curb, appeared to faint, lost one of her shoes, which wound up under the van, ‘ a source allegedly also at the memorial said.
She said the would-be president has had an allergy-related cough, and during a follow-up examination on Friday she was diagnosed with pneumonia, put on antibiotics and advised to rest.
Dr. Bardack said the former NY senator felt unwell during the ceremony because of her condition as well as dehydration. She waved to reporters and said: “I’m feeling great”.
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While Clinton has released more information than Trump, Caplan said neither candidate has offered voters a sufficient record. Taking the Clinton team’s word for it on her health – in light of the episode on Sunday morning – is no longer enough. Trump turned 70 in June, while Clinton will have just turned 69 if she wins the White House.
The video that showed her swaying and buckling with aides holding her up came from an unverified Twitter account under the name Zdenek Gazda, who did not respond to a request for comment.
Clinton released a two-page letter from Bardack in July 2015 giving some details about her medications and treatment for a concussion in 2012 and blood clots.
Several Clinton allies said the incident underscored the candidate’s resilience.
CNN ran an article by Stephen Collinson titled “Hillary Clinton stumbles – will her campaign follow?” that raised questions about the future of her nomination. She had to take cough drops and drank water while the audience waited for her to recover. She then resumed her speech. “Later this month, Hillary Clinton begins a grueling set of debates against Donald Trump, and she’s going to need to be healthy, just physically, to withstand those debates – something like 90 minutes of debating”, Abrahms notes, wondering if Clinton will be able to go the distance. In another unconventional twist in a campaign that’s been full of them, Trump is scheduled to appear in a pre-taped interview on Thursday with Mehmet C. Oz, also known as Dr. Oz, to discuss his “personal health regimen”.
The Clinton campaign has been refuting allegations that her health is failing and has criticised Trump for “parroting lies” based on fabricated documents as he had said at an election rally that Clinton “lacks the mental and physical stamina to take on ISIS”.
Thus far, there’s been scant evidence that the questions have resonated outside Trump’s circle of fervent supporters.
The delay in disclosing the pneumonia diagnosis and the silence from the campaign immediately after Clinton left the September 11 commemoration “lets everyone fill the holes themselves, ” said Jennifer Loven, managing director of the strategic communications firm Glover Park Group in Washington and a former president of the White House Correspondents’ Association. “That can be embarrassing at the very least, or it can be very damaging because it ends up reinforcing the very negative impressions you were afraid of in the first place – perceived problems about transparency and worries about her health”. Despite Trump’s numerous missteps, the race remains close and many Americans view Clinton as dishonest and untrustworthy.
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