An outbreak of respiratory illness swept through Mrs Clinton’s campaign in the weeks before she was diagnosed with pneumonia, campaign aides said.
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‘There’s no other undisclosed condition.
Her campaign has sought to turn the matter around on Republican opponent Donald Trump, who has released only a glowing letter from his doctor, though the billionaire real estate mogul says that he, too, plans to make public additional information in the coming days.
Controversy over the remark came at a bad time for Clinton, who was forced to cancel a West Coast swing due to a bout of pneumonia that she kept secret until she almost collapsed after a ceremony in NY on Sunday marking the September 11, 2001, attacks.
“These were the people Hillary Clinton so viciously demonized”, said Trump, who demanded that Clinton issue a full apology. She later said she regretted the remark. Hillary Clinton, who was supposed to be headlining a fundraising event in San Francisco on Monday, was forced to sit it out following her doctor’s orders to stay home. Her husband, former president Bill Clinton, will campaign for her in Las Vegas on Wednesday. On Friday, during follow-up evaluation of her prolonged cough, she was diagnosed with pneumonia. The Democratic candidate emerged about 90 minutes later, the Times said, waving to reporters and saying “I’m feeling great”.
Ms Clinton suffered concussion in 2012 following the flu and had vision problems for a several weeks afterwards, her two-page medical letter revealed in July.
“Like a lot of people, I thought I could power through it and keep going forward and obviously that didn’t work out so well”, Clinton said on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 Monday evening.
The episode has fueled fresh speculation and conspiracy theories on the internet, already awash with unsubstantiated rumors Clinton may have a brain tumor, Parkinson´s or dementia.
The celebrity businessman talked through the scuffle and said after the disturbance: “Is there any place more fun than a Trump rally?” “And she has worked like a demon, as you know, as secretary of State, and as a senator, and in the years since”. Clinton later received the all-clear.
Trump showed surprising restraint regarding Clinton’s health.
Trump also promised to release medical records once test results are back. “She divides people into baskets as though they were objects not human beings”.
The billionaire real estate tycoon has brought up Clinton’s state of health often in campaign stops, arguing that she doesn’t have the “strength and stamina” to be president.
“The problem we have right now, we have a society that sits back and says, ‘We don’t have to do anything.’ And eventually, the 50 per cent can not carry, and it’s unfair to ’em, but can not carry the other 50 per cent”.
Democrats including her running mate Tim Kaine rushed to her defense. On Labor Day, she brushed off a coughing episode in OH merely as evidence that she is “allergic to Trump”. “I just upped my antihistamine load to try and break through it”, she told the Times.
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After the episode Sunday, he knew enough to let the facts stand for themselves, congratulating himself for taking no “satisfaction” in her troubles.
