Clinton also acknowledged that she should have scaled back her scheduled after Friday, but was committed to attending the 9/11 memorial and tried to power through.
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Hillary Clinton didn’t reveal her pneumonia diagnosis earlier because she didn’t “think it was going to be that big a deal”, she said on Monday night.
“I’m now taking my doctor’s advice, which was given to me on Friday, that I ignored, to just take some time to get over pneumonia completely”, she said.
Clinton’s evening interview, in which she promised to release more information at some point, came as her campaign scrambled to head off lasting damage from a hard weekend. Late Sunday, she canceled plans to travel to California for two days of fundraising, campaign events and an appearance on Ellen DeGeneres’ talk show.
She later tweeted that she was feeling better and “just anxious to get back out there”. Shortly thereafter, staffers said Hillary Clinton was dehydrated.
“I’m feeling so much better. and obviously I should have gotten some rest sooner”, she said.
The 68-year-old fell sick at a 9/11 memorial event in NY on Sunday and a video showed her being helped into a van. Trump on Monday brushed aside any speculation that Clinton might be replaced as the Democratic nominee, but said of the candidate’s health: “I think it’s an issue”. “I have a hard time keeping up with her”.
The Democratic nominee also added that New York Sen.
Is it important that Clinton didn’t immediately make public the pneumonia diagnosis she received September 9, and does it reflect the instinct for secrecy for which she is frequently criticized?
Mrs Clinton’s communications director has admitted the campaign “could have done better” managing the incident.
The fight broke out as Trump was defending his supporters against Clinton’s comment that half of them belonged in a “basket of deplorables”.
But she has instead been resting at home in Chappaqua, New York.
It says a lot about just how surreal this American election cycle has become that they couldn’t even have a 9/11 commemoration without one of the candidates grabbing all the headlines.
But Mr Trump has repeatedly suggested she is unfit, telling supporters last month she “lacks the mental and physical stamina” to serve as president. “You know, compare everything you know about me with my opponent”.
Clinton’s campaign earlier released a July 2015 letter from Dr. Lisa Bardack describing Clinton as “a healthy 67-year-old female whose current medical conditions include hypothyroidism and seasonal pollen allergies”.
Speaking to CNN on Monday, Hillary Clinton said she was dizzy but didn’t lose consciousness when she stumbled on the way out of the 9/11 memorial on Sunday.
“I think it will assist his campaign temporarily”.
Are you satisfied by Trump’s first effort to address health questions, the four-paragraph open letter from his doctor last December saying the NY billionaire would be “the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency”? He believes her illness is a non-factor and age is just a number.
Bill Clinton is filling in for his wife on the West Coast campaign trail this week.
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There are reports that Clinton will appear via teleconference for her fundraiser.
