Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton walks from her daughter’s apartment building Sunday, Sept. 11, 2016, in NY.
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Her spokesman Nick Merrill said that Clinton attended the ceremony for about an hour-and-a-half after which “she felt overheated so departed to go to her daughter’s apartment, and is feeling much better”.
Democratic candidate for President Hillary Clinton abruptly left the 9/11 Memorial near One World Trade Center Sunday.
“It’s a handsome day in NY”, she added, while smiling and waving to supporters on the street before getting into her motorcade.
Bardack says Clinton has been experiencing a cough related to allergies, and in a follow-up examination Friday of her cough, Clinton was diagnosed with pneumonia.
“She was put on antibiotics, and advised to rest and modify her schedule”. “She was put on antibiotics, and advised to rest and modify her schedule”, said Dr. Lisa R. Bardack, an internist who practices near Clinton’s suburban NY home.
A video showed Clinton slumping and being held up by three people as she was helped into a van after the event.
A campaign aide said Clinton had been examined at her home in Chappaqua, New York, after leaving Ground Zero.
Trump’s move is likely to increase pressure on Clinton to release more information about her health.
Donald Trump and his top surrogates have claimed that she faces a health crisis, citing selectively edited videos of public events to advance claims she’s suffered seizures.
Add in the possibility of fever, shortness of breath or other possible symptoms from pneumonia, and you have a constellation of factors that could have explained her feeling weak on Sunday, she said.
The Democratic presidential nominee later emerged, seemingly better, after resting at her daughter Chelsea’s apartment.
No longer can Trump’s questions about Clinton’s physical stamina be summarily dismissed.
But as a precaution, Clinton remains on daily blood thinners, something her husband previously revealed.
The incident compounds a hard time for Clinton as the race enters its final stretch.
Mrs Clinton is 68 and Mr Trump is 70. The journalists who travel with her campaign were not there to witness her arrival.
On Friday, Clinton told donors that “half” of Trump’s supporters are in a “basket of deplorables” – a comment that drew sharp criticism from Republicans.
The former secretary of state spent 90 minutes at the ceremony in lower Manhattan, greeting some relatives of those killed in the terror strikes 15 years ago, her campaign said in a statement. The most notable events in Clinton’s medical record included deep vein thrombosis – or a blood clot, usually in the leg – in 1998 and 2009, a broken elbow in 2009 and a concussion in 2012. Her doctor attributed that episode to a stomach virus and dehydration. On CNBC, he said he takes no satisfaction from her problems.
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Sen. Chuck Schumer says Hillary Clinton seemed “fine” just before she left the 9/11 memorial ceremony and was captured on video appearing to struggle to stay on her feet. On Fox News, he said he hopes “she gets well and gets back on the trail and we’ll be seeing her at the debate”.
