Hoping to put the issue of her health behind her as she gets ready to return to the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton on Wednesday released an updated review of her physical fitness and details about a recent bout of pneumonia.
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She said in interview with CNN earlier this week that she did not announce that she had pneumonia because she “just didn’t think it was going to be that big of deal”.
Nick Merrill said Clinton spent Tuesday “catching up on reading briefings, making calls, and she watched President Obama’s speech in Philadelphia on TV”.
The almost eight-hour gap between when Clinton was first reported to have stumbled and when her campaign disclosed her pneumonia has revived questions about her penchant for secrecy.
The rally marked Clinton’s first public appearance since Sunday, when she abruptly left a 9/11 memorial service after getting dizzy and dehydrated.
Obama insisted that Clinton had “been subjected to more scrutiny and. more unfair criticism than anybody out here”, while accusing the media of giving her Republican opponent a pass.
Clinton appears anxious to change the subject of the news cycle from her health and appeared to punctuate that conversation with the release of additional documentation Wednesday afternoon in which her doctor said she “continues to remain healthy and fit to serve as president”. She also was treated for a blood clot in her head in 2012, apparently due to a concussion she suffered in plane crash in Iran.
Even more, he described the former NY senator who ran hard against him for the Democratic nomination in 2008 as the most qualified presidential candidate, and Trump as “not fit in any way shape and form to represent this country and be its commander in chief”.
She said that while sitting at home this week was “pretty much the last place I wanted to be”, the time helped clarify how she wants to close her campaign against Trump.
Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway tweeted that a “lack of transparency is an overarching theme” of the Clinton campaign.
“She treats everyone with respect”, Obama said.
Donald Trump has opened up a five-point lead over Hillary Clinton in OH, according to a new Bloomberg poll released Wednesday. An Internet conspiracy has even sprouted that speculates Clinton used a body double in the wake of her departure from the Ground Zero ceremony.
With two months until Election Day, the race between Clinton and Trump is far tighter than many in both parties expected.
“This is where bigotry leads, and we can’t afford it, not here or anywhere else”, Clinton said.
On September 15, the Trump campaign released a new, more detailed note from Trump’s doctor that provided information from several tests and declared the candidate to be in “excellent physical health”.
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“Well, I have really no problem in doing it”, Trump responds.
