Pneumonia was the problem of U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, her doctor said.
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In fact, at the time of this writing, the Fox News site had six stories at the top of its webpage focusing entirely on the fact that Hillary Clinton was overheated and was forced to leave the 9/11 memorial event a bit early.
Clinton was diagnosed on Friday, but her condition only came to light several hours after a video on social media appeared to show her swaying and her knees buckling before she is helped into a motorcade as she left the memorial early on Sunday.
About 90 minutes after arriving at her daughter’s apartment, Clinton emerged, walking without assistance, waving to the crowd. So far, Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the media favoring her candidacy called those allegations as conspiracy theories meant to benefit Republican Candidate Donald Trump.
“No other candidate in the history of the United States that I have seen has been so unhealthy during the campaign”, the analyst said, hoping that the Democratic Party would drop Clinton as its candidate. But attacks from him and his allies, including former NY mayor Rudy Giuliani, have intensified in the past month as unverified and often debunked theories about Clinton’s health have floated around the Internet.
“There are plenty of people who may stumble around on a hot humid day for lots of reasons”, Caplan said.
A narrator says: “You know what’s deplorable?” Neither Clinton nor Trump has released anything approaching that level of detail. After nearly an hour of no news on her whereabouts and conditions, her Doctor commented that she got over-heated during the ceremony and she has been diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday, “On Friday, during follow-up evaluation of her prolonged cough, she was diagnosed with pneumonia”. He later told NBC News it took him just five minutes to write it.
Past presidential candidates have released much more detailed information about their health than either Trump, 70, or Clinton.
Trump’s personal physician has said the Republican presidential nominee is in excellent health both physically and mentally.
Bardack said Clinton had an examination at her home in Chappaqua after the incident, which was a result of dehydration and overheating.
“It was actually Trump who told me what was going on”, King said in an interview Sunday. “We shouldn’t be judging people based on their age, but based on their ideas”.
Jackson said Sunday’s incident will be “instructive” for the campaign and should encourage more transparency from the Clinton camp about her health.
Clinton’s doctor reported she is fully recovered from the concussion, which led to temporary double vision and discovery of a blood clot in a vein in the space between her brain and skull.
“What the Clinton campaign needs to do over the course of the next several days is demonstrate her vitality and viability”. She later said she regretted applying that description to “half” of Mr Trump’s backers, but stuck by her assertion that he has given a platform to “hateful views and voices”.
Clinton’s doctor said the 68-year-old former secretary of state “became overheated and dehydrated” at the 9/11 ceremony at ground zero.
As pointed out by NPR, ever since Trump’s own dizzying drop – in his case in the polls – the Trump campaign has been desperately looking for a way to slow down the Clinton campaign juggernaut, which has been overheated in a way the Republicans didn’t enjoy almost as much. He plans to discuss his health regimen this week during an appearance on “The Dr. Oz Show”.
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Clinton was at a fundraiser on Friday when she said that she would put “half of Trump’s supporters” into “the basket of deplorables”.
