Hillary Clinton’s campaign acknowledged on Monday that it may have been too slow disclosing her pneumonia diagnosis after she almost fainted at an event over the weekend, and promised to release additional medical details in the coming days.
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“I’m feeling so much better”, said the Democratic presidential nominee, who called into Anderson Cooper 360 from her home in Chappaqua, N.Y “I should have gotten some rest sooner, I probably would have been better off if I just pulled down my schedule Friday”. The episode prompted Clinton’s campaign to promise that it would release additional medical records this week.
An outbreak of respiratory illness swept through Hillary Clinton’s campaign in the weeks before she was diagnosed with pneumonia, campaign aides said Monday.
“I didn’t think it was going to be a big deal”, she said when asked why she kept the pneumonia a secret.
“I’m aware of it, and usually can avoid it”.
Clinton abruptly left a 9/11 anniversary event Sunday in NY and was seen on video stumbling and being held up by aides. Her campaign later revealed she’d been diagnosed Friday with pneumonia – a disclosure that fueled arguments that the Democratic nominee isn’t sufficiently forthcoming about important details.
About 90 minutes into the ground zero ceremony, Clinton left after feeling “overheated”, her campaign said.
Both Mrs Clinton and Republican rival Donald Trump, 70, said they meant to release more of their medical details in the coming days, as their campaigns gear up for the Nov 8 election. “Yesterday I just was incredibly committed to being at the memorial as a senator on 9/11 – it was just incredibly personal to me”.
On Sunday, she said, she felt dizzy, but didn’t lose consciousness. That’s in addition to 40 years of tax returns and tens of thousands of emails, said Clinton.
Trump said he plans to release the results of a physical exam he had during the past week, with “very, very specific numbers”.
“T$3 he people they accused or implied gave money to the foundation just so they could have some in with Hillary did not do that”, Clinton said.
Clinton’s pneumonia disclosure was made public hours after her campaign said she had become “overheated” to explain why, her knees buckling and unsteady, she was rushed from the September 11 ceremony.
Clinton admitted: “If we weren’t fast enough, you know, I’ve talked to my staff, we, you know, take responsibility for that”. “We know the least about Donald Trump of any candidate in recent American history”, she said, including his foreign investors and businesses. He has raised questions about her stamina, reprising a tactic from the Republican primary campaign when he derided rival Jeb Bush as a “low-energy” candidate.
Her health woes forced Clinton to scrap her California fundraising trip Monday and Tuesday and a scheduled campaign event Wednesday in Nevada.
Earlier in an interview with CBS News, Bill Clinton said his wife has had similar incidents of dehydration and dizziness in the past.
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However, Trump, who shared even less information about his own medical details than Clinton did, was also bogged down in controversy surrounding his brief medical report that stated that Trump would be the “healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency”.
