“She was put on antibiotics, and advised to rest and modify her schedule”, Dr Bardack said.
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Bardack added: “While at this morning’s event, she became overheated and dehydrated. On Friday, during follow up evaluation of her prolonged cough, she was diagnosed with pneumonia”, said Dr. Lisa R. Bardack, Clinton’s doctor.
Clinton and her campaign have dismissed recent rumors of ill health.
During the ceremony, Clinton – flanked by New York Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand – stood in close proximity, but apparently had no direct interaction with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who stood alongside advisors Rudy Giuliani and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. The first of three debates is on September 26 and the election is on November 8.
Clinton had no more events on her schedule for Sunday and went, as previously planned, to her home in Chappaqua, 30 miles (50 km) north of New York City. Merrill said Clinton was “feeling much better”, but offered no additional details, including whether the 68-year-old Clinton required medical attention.
The root of the claims lies in 2012, when Clinton was nearing the end of her stint as secretary of state.
The video came from an unverified Twitter account under the name Zdenek Gazda, who did not respond to a request for comment.The Clinton campaign did not respond to repeated requests for comment about the authenticity of the video.
For Bud Jackson, a Virginia-based Democratic strategist, the statement from the doctor was a good start. “His latest paranoid fever dream is about my health”, she said. “It means less speculation”, Jackson said. Clinton was also wearing a long-sleeve blue jacket during Sunday’s ceremony. But on this 15th anniversary of that tragic day, Hillary Clinton left the 9/11 ceremony early after overheating. Bornstein told NBC News he needed just five minutes to write a glowing public assessment of Trump’s health as a limousine waited to carry the letter back to Trump._This story has been corrected to reflect that Clinton said “basket of deplorables, ‘ not “bucket of deplorables” in reference to ‘half” of Trump’s supporters.
Clinton had a coughing fit while campaigning in Cleveland early last week. However, the effort to paint her as unwell has traded in a variety of wild rumors, with Trump surrogates openly speculating about varied maladies they think Clinton could be dealing with.
The campaign already released a summary of Clinton’s medical records and conditions previous year, but Sunday’s collapse is sure to fuel the fire and could revive calls for both candidates to release updated detailed health records – something Trump has been pushing for. Reasonable people can – and will – have real questions about her health.
They said they found a blood clot on the brain and Clinton temporarily suffered from double vision. It noted that her current medical conditions include hyperthyroidism and seasonal pollen allergies.
Clinton leads Trump 46 per cent to 41 per cent lead among likely voters, according to the poll, which had a 4.5 percentage-point margin of error.
For months, Trump’s supporters have tried to make the case that Clinton is physically unfit for the White House, citing a concussion she sustained in December 2012 after fainting. Reporters traveling with Clinton could not see her directly, but the politicians around her were all standing and packed tightly together.
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Dr. Harold Bornstein’s report last December remains the only medical information released so far by the Trump campaign.
