“First and foremost, I should do whatever I’m asked to do”, Clinton said. What Bill seemed to want to say was that it was NBD – his wife apparently is accustomed to “powering through”, as her campaign put it and work herself into the ground – even at the risk of burn out or a weakened immune system. “‘Cause frequently-not frequently, that’s not-rarely, but on more than on occasion over the last many, many years, the same sort of thing has happened to her when she just got severely dehydrated”, Clinton said.
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“No, no. She got dehydrated”, Bill Clinton said.
The incident, which Clinton’s staff initially blamed on overheating, has done little to change voters’ minds about her trustworthiness.
First discovered by the Daily Caller, what Bill Clinton told CBS News on Monday wasn’t quite the same message many viewers watched later on Monday and Tuesday when video clips were being recycled on air.
Hillary Clinton’s health has become a major topic of conversation after her campaign announced that she has pneumonia.
On Monday, in a phone interview with CNN’s “AC 360” show, Secretary Clinton denied she’d passed out, telling Anderson Cooper she only felt “dizzy” for a moment. The former president explained that it wasn’t a big deal – because it had happened before.
Trump and his surrogates have repeatedly raised questions about Hillary Clinton’s health, which attracted more headlines after she stumbled while leaving a 9/11 memorial. Former President Bill Clinton simply stepped in to take her place.
Before the rally, the Trump campaign issued a statement reviving Hillary Clinton’s recent comment at a fundraiser that half of Trump’s supporters fall in “a basket of deplorables”.
The foundation also did not report contributions from 1,000 donors who gave the money through a sister Canadian foundation. The campaign hours later said she had been diagnosed Friday with pneumonia.
As a result, Clinton canceled three days of events in California and Nevada and is set to return to the campaign trail on Thursday in North Carolina.
Still, Clinton said, the anger in America’s depressed economies is deserved. “And obviously that didn’t work out so well”, she said. We don’t need to feed the road rage.
“You have to be a certain age, and it helps to be a white Southern man – I know what that means”, he said.
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That’s been less overt in the 2016 campaign than in some of the Clintons’ previous political endeavors, when they actively pitched themselves as a “two for the price of one” proposition. The former president said those investments are what America needs, not building a wall along the border with Mexico, as Trump has suggested.
