“She did not lose consciousness, she stumbled getting into the van, from the van she was calling aides and we got her to a doctor as quickly as we could”, Mook said.
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“Like any decent person, I hope Clinton feels better”.
Her campaign had said Clinton’s coughing last week came from seasonal allergies, but Friday, when Clinton learned she had pneumonia, that fact was not disclosed and only came to light after she was seen being helped into a vehicle on Sunday.
Clinton’s campaign hasn’t revealed many details of her pneumonia, which was diagnosed Friday.
The Democratic presidential nominee abruptly left a September 11 memorial event on Sunday and a bystander filmed her struggling to walk to her van.
The former secretary of state made an early exit Sunday from an event in NY memorialising the September 11, 2001 attacks, and a video showed her stumbling and requiring assistance as she entered a van.
“Well, if it is (more serious) then it’s a mystery to me and all of her doctors”, Bill Clinton said.
I’ve been speaking about Hillary Clinton’s health for some time, you’ve been asking questions for some time, and the mainstream media have been covering up for her.
Clinton’s campaign canceled her Monday and Tuesday events, which involved fundraising in California and appearing on the Ellen DeGeneres show, late Sunday. After an unconvincing performance of vitality outside her daughter’s apartment, Clinton revealed that she had been diagnosed with pneumonia days earlier.
Trump, 70, and Clinton, who turns 69 next month, are among the oldest candidates in American history.
He said that “on more than one occasion” over the years “the same sort of thing’s happened to her when she got severely dehydrated”.
She emerged later to wave to supporters and was at home Monday, all signs that it’s not a severe case.
Trump has released less information to the public about his health than Clinton has.
Immediately, many on the right clamored to say that Clinton’s diagnosis should disqualify her from the race.
The pneumonia incident brought up some familiar concerns about Clinton’s penchant for secrecy which has fueled a debate about her use of a private email server while she was President Barack Obama’s secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.
WASHINGTON ― WikiLeaks is feeding conspiracy theories that Hillary Clinton is not telling the truth about her health, tweeting and then deleting a poll that asked users to speculate about the cause of her “collapse”.
In recent weeks, staff at Clinton’s headquarters in Brooklyn have been hit by an illness, and several aides required medical treatment, a campaign aide said. “She didn’t want it to affect anything and obviously this on Sunday, when she got overheated, it was clear she needed some downtime”.
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Trump has compared the remark to a much-criticized comment by 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney that 47 percent of the electorate were dependent on the government. “You know, it is something that has occurred a few times over the course of my life”.
