Rose asked Clinton if the episode in NY in which the Democratic presidential nominee collapsed while being ushered into a van was an indication of more serious health issues.
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“First and foremost, I should do whatever I’m asked to do”, Clinton said.
Bolding added to highlight one of two things: a media-conscious former president realizing that he needed to accomplish an off-the-cuff walk-back; or a media-conscious former president actually overplaying his wife’s health episodes, then walking back the statement to the vicinity of the truth.
Clinton said her campaign didn’t publicly reveal her diagnosis because “I just didn’t think it was going to be that big of deal”. “Rarely, on more than one occasion, over the last many, many years, the same sort of thing’s happened to her when she got severely dehydrated, and she’s worked like a demon, as you know, as secretary of State, as a senator and in the year since”.
Bill Clinton will visit The Daily Show for the 10th time on Thursday, but it will be his first sit-down on the Comedy Central late night show since Trevor Noah became its host. But still, this is a pretty consequential little edit “for time”.
Clinton told CNN’s Anderson Cooper in a telephone interview Monday night that she is “feeling so much better”. The campaign had chalked her fainting up to “dehydration”, a claim Bill Clinton repeated to Charlie Rose.
There’s still a lot of attention on Hillary Clinton’s health.
But he said there was “not a shot” she’d bee off the trail for a period of weeks while recovering.
He said he’s been lucky to lead the Clinton Foundation since departing the White House himself in 2001.
The foundation is holding its final Clinton Global Initiative Conference in NY next week.
Clinton said it was “almost certain” his wife was healthier than Donald Trump, but noted that Trump has yet to release a full medical report on past conditions and health indicators. “We got caught trying”. The Clinton camp plans to release more information this week.
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“I could feel how hot and humid it was. She just got dehydrated yesterday”.
