But later said she was diagnosed with pneumonia – an inflammatory condition of the lung.
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“Thanks to everyone who’s reached out with well wishes!” “I think her lifestyle and her underlying indicators from blood pressure to amount of exercise, to everything else means it’s nearly that she is in better health than her opponent”. Had the campaign disclosed her sickness Friday, he said, she would have looked heroic for insisting on commemorating the anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
Host Seth Meyers criticizes Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables” comment as a mark of her affluence.
Clinton, 68, has twice been diagnosed with blood clots in her legs. “The pneumonia is the extent of it”, Mr Fallon said. On Sunday, Clinton left Ground Zero around 9:30 a.m. ET because she was feeling unwell.
“We’ve been in touch with her this morning and it is our intention in the next couple days we’ll release additional medical information about Hillary Clinton”, said Brian Fallon, Clinton spokesperson.
Clinton abruptly left the ceremony and appeared to stumble while she was waiting for her motorcade.
“Immediate full disclosure is very important, and they neglected to do that, and now they are dealing with a bigger problem than they would have otherwise”, he said, adding that he sees no serious cause for concern about her ability to run a campaign or the country. She was driven to her daughter’s apartment in Manhattan.
“I felt dizzy and I did lose my balance for a minute”, she added.
Asked whether she had fainted at the NY event, Mrs Clinton replied: “No, I didn’t”. “As soon as it became clear I couldn’t power through, we said what was going on”.
Hillary also revealed that she was feeling a lot better now and that she had been ordered by her doctor to rest for a while.
Obama said the Clinton Foundation has “saved countless lives around the world”, while Trump used his charity to buy “a six-foot-tall painting of himself”, Obama said, referencing a Washington Post investigation of Trump’s charity.
It also prompted Republican rival Donald Trump a new opening and seek her medical record. He said it’s ultimately the candidates themselves who have to make the decision about what kind of information they release and the level of detail.
Trump, 70, told CNBC on Monday he would release the results of his most recent physical.
A Clinton spokesman acknowledged Monday that information should have been released more quickly.
Her husband, former President Bill Clinton, will headline some of her events, an aide announced late Mon-day.
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Obama reserved part of his speech to “vent” about the media, arguing news organizations have treated Clinton unfairly and applied what he described as a false equivalence when covering the campaigns’ troubles. It included reference to various medical issues from her past, including deep-vein thrombosis in 1998 and 2009, a fractured elbow in 2009 and a well-documented concussion in 2012, which she sustained after fainting in her home while sick with a severe respiratory infection.
