United States journalist Rick Levanthal of Fox News said: “She unexpectedly left early because of what appeared to be a medical episode”.
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Clinton’s speech at a campaign rally earlier this month in Cleveland was interrupted by a coughing spell.
This weekend’s health news, accompanied by a barrage of speculation already circulating on social media, added ammunition to a line of attack by Donald Trump and GOP conservatives that Clinton is unwell and has not been forthcoming about her health issues.
The Independent also joined in the call for Clinton to become much more forthcoming about her health.
“On Friday, during follow up evaluation of her prolonged cough, she was diagnosed with pneumonia”. The Clinton campaign had not disclosed her pneumonia diagnosis until Bardack’s statement. Taking the Clinton team’s word for it on her health – in light of the episode on Sunday morning – is no longer enough.
Bardack attended to Clinton at her Chappaqua home Sunday. Clinton’s departure from the event was not witnessed by the reporters who travel with her campaign and aides provided no information about why she left or her whereabouts for almost two hours.
Clinton’s campaign says the former secretary of state arrived at her home in Chappaqua shortly before 2 p.m.
Almost 3000 people died when hijacked planes slammed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field near Shanksville on September 11 2001.
Clinton attended the ceremony for an hour and 30 minutes before “she felt so overheated” she departed for her daughter’s apartment, her spokesman Nick Merrill, said in a statement. When she re-emerged around noon she waved to passersby, and told reporters she was feeling “great”.
It was a humid day in NY, with temperatures around 82 degrees Fahrenheit (28 Celsius).
A Twitter video posted under the account Zdenek Gazda showed a wobbly looking Clinton being helped into a van upon leaving the memorial service. She appears to be unsteady on her feet and wobbles on her way into the vehicle.
Clinton’s van is now seen at Chelsea Clinton’s apartment, but the campaign has not said where she is.
The 68-year-old was rushed out of a 9/11 commemoration service today suffering from a “medical episode”, according to a law enforcement witness.
Neither candidate has released a more complete medical report, though Trump recently told ABC News that he would do so. The incident compounds an already hard stretch for Clinton as the presidential race enters its final stretch. Despite Trump’s numerous missteps, the White House race remains close and the public continues to view Clinton has dishonest and untrustworthy.
Republic rival Donald Trump, who was also at the ceremony for a time, didn’t immediately comment on the developments. 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”. Bardack said Clinton had a stomach virus after traveling and had become dehydrated. She greets attendees and takes her spot in the audience next to New York Senators Chuck Schumer and Kristan Gillibrand. But the high humidity caused it to feel much hotter in the crowd at times.
Clinton admitted in a statement that her remarks had been “grossly generalistic” – as she said at the time.
“I don’t think age should be used at all”, Olshansky said. “I needed a gallon of water myself”. She had to take cough drops and drank water while the audience waited for her to recover.
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Clinton’s supporters have dismissed questions about her health by pointing to her globe-trotting schedule as secretary of state and lengthy appearance before Congress investigating the 2012 Benghazi attack, in which she sat for 11 hours. He said that ideally, presidential nominees should allow an independent panel to assess their health.
