Clinton’s campaign said the Democratic presidential nominee left the 9/11 anniversary ceremony in NY early after feeling “overheated”.
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“The canceling of the events is presumably to give Clinton time to recover before the final stretch of less than two months until Election Day”.
Sources told CNN afterward that Clinton fainted and her doctor issued a statement on Sunday afternoon saying that the Democratic nominee was diagnosed with pneumonia during a check up on Friday.
After leaving her daughter’s home, Clinton was driven to her home in Chappaqua, New York, though it was unclear if she made a stop along the way.
Clinton was scheduled to attend fundraisers on Monday and Tuesday in California, and tape an episode of the Ellen DeGeneres Show.
Whether Clinton likes it or not, her “overheating” episode comes at a very bad time for her campaign.
Clinton has been in the news before for serious health issues.
Her campaign team also faced questions as to why it took them two days to reveal the illness.
“I don’t think age should be used at all”, Olshansky said.
Speaking to the Times, other attendees at the Sunday morning ceremony said Clinton did not appear ill when she first arrived.
Whereas Clinton and her campaign could laugh off questions about her health before today, the “overheating” episode makes it nearly impossible for them to do so.
The damage was compounded by the almost eight hours of silence from Clinton and her team about the health scare, as well as the Sunday evening disclosure she had been diagnosed on Friday with pneumonia.
Hillary Clinton leaves her daughter’s apartment building after resting on September 11, 2016.
It noted that her campaign previous year had released a summary of Clinton’s medical records and conditions. “During the ceremony she felt overheated so departed to go to her daughter’s apartment and is feeling much better”.
Bardack added in a statement that Clinton, after an exam Sunday afternoon at her home, “is now rehydrated and recovering nicely”. JFK was so frightened that his debilitating medical conditions would harm him in the 1960 race for the Democratic nomination, that Kennedy denied suffering from Addison’s disease, and his doctors said his health was excellent. Clinton spent a few days in New York-Presbyterian Hospital for treatment and took a monthlong absence from her role as secretary of state.
“There are so many of them”, she said, “I’ve lost track of them”.
Coverage of Hillary Clinton’s medical episode at the 9/11 memorial event has exposed the “misogynistic” nature of the U.S. press, a high-profile doctor has claimed.
Several posts began appearing on Twitter that said Clinton left the ceremony abruptly as the names of the victims of the 9/11 attacks were being read out.
Clinton’s departure from the event was not witnessed by the reporters who travel with her campaign, which did not offer any information about why she left and her whereabouts for more than an hour.
“Mrs. Clinton is a healthy 67-year old female whose current medical conditions include hypothyroidiam and seasonal pollen allergies”, wrote Dr. Lisa Bardack, Clinton’s doctor since 2001, in a health statement provided by Clinton’s campaign.
Clinton had been trying to move on from a blunder in which she told a crowd at a fundraiser late Friday that “to be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables”.
Clinton leads Trump 46 percent to 41 percent lead among likely voters, according to the poll, which had a 4.5 percentage-point margin of error.
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Dr. Harold Bornstein’s report last December remains the only medical information released so far by the Trump campaign.
