Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton waves as she walks from her daughter’s apartment building on September 11, 2016, in NY. Republican rival Donald Trump has spent months questioning her health, saying she does not have the stamina to be president.
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Unlikely previous presidential candidates, both Clinton and Trump have opted not to travel with what’s known as the “protective pool” – a small group of journalists that follow the candidate everywhere.
The Democratic presidential candidate was diagnosed with the illness after she collapsed at an “incredibly stifling” 9/11 ceremony in NY.
An hour after arriving at her daughter’s apartment, she emerged looking relaxed.
Clinton has since left Chelsea Clinton’s apartment. She paused to take photos and waved to onlookers before heading to her Chappaqua home.
“It’s a attractive day in New York”, Clinton said.
Clinton’s pneumonia diagnosis has kicked off a discussion within the Clinton campaign about whether the candidate has been over scheduled.
The damage was compounded by the almost eight hours of silence from Clinton and her team about the health scare, as well as the Sunday evening disclosure she had been diagnosed on Friday with pneumonia. While at this morning’s event, she became overheated and dehydrated. Clinton later said she regretted applying that description to “half” of Trump’s backers, but stuck by her assertion that the GOP nominee has given a platform to “hateful views and voices”.
Some specialists cautioned against making too much of Sunday’s episode.
“This last week, I took a physical and I’ll be releasing, when the numbers come in …”
Trump has also been under pressure to release detailed information on his health and medical history.
“As you may have heard today, Secretary Clinton was diagnosed with pneumonia and her doctor has advised her to rest”, donors were told via email.
Clinton tried to make light of that event.
Clinton’s illness struck after she told a crowd at a fundraiser late Friday that “to be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables”. “Every time I think about Trump, I get allergic”. But we are 58 days away from choosing the person who will lead the country for the next four years, and she is one of the two candidates with a real chance of winning.
Clinton has had similar coughing episodes, including in February, when a coughing attack interrupted a speech she was giving at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in NY.
The Clinton campaign did not respond to repeated requests for comment about the authenticity of the video.
She concluded that Clinton is in “excellent physical condition and fit to serve”.
Merrill said the former secretary of state attended the morning 9/11 ceremony for 90 minutes “to pay her respects and greet some of the families of the fallen”. She said Clinton “exercises regularly” including yoga, swimming, walking, and weight training.
A previous disclosure, from 2015, described the effects of concussion that Mrs Clinton suffered in 2012. Her doctor attributed the episode to a stomach virus and dehydration. She was later found to have a clot and double vision, causing her to wear special eyeglasses.
He declined to say anything Sunday, keeping a pledge not to campaign on the 15th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks.
Trump needs to make public a serious medical evaluation. Asked by a reporter about Clinton’s health incident, Trump said, “I don’t know anything”.
Mr Trump recently released a four-paragraph statement from his gastroenterologist, written last December, which states that if he wins office “Mr Trump. will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency”.
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He later revealed in an interview with The Washington Post that it was written in five minutes as a limousine sent by Trump’s campaign staff waited outside his office to ferry it back to the campaign.
