This comes after Clinton appeared unsteady on her feet and had to be helped into her auto while leaving the September 11 memorial ceremony in New York City.
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Clinton, 68, 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 being helped into a motorcade as she left the memorial early Sunday.
Her campaign later said she was “overheated”.
US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has been treated for pneumonia, her doctor reveals, after she was taken ill at a 9/11 ceremony.
Clinton’s campaign said the Democratic presidential nominee left the 9/11 anniversary ceremony in NY early after feeling “overheated”.
She was diagnosed on Friday, the doctor said, but her condition was not made public until Sunday afternoon. “I have just examined her and she is now re-hydrated and recovering nicely”, Bardack said in the statement late Sunday afternoon.
Clinton’s departure from the event was not witnessed by the reporters who travel with her campaign, which did not offer any information about why she left and her whereabouts for more than an hour.
On Friday, she told donors that “half” of Mr Trump’s supporters are in a “basket of deplorables” – a comment that drew sharp criticism from Republicans.
Rumours about Clinton’s health appeared to have stemmed from a 2012 incident in which she fell, a mishap attributed to a stomach virus. Asked by a reporter about Clinton’s health incident, Trump said, “I don’t know anything”.
Clinton’s speech at a campaign rally on Labour Day in Cleveland was interrupted by a coughing spell. The Democratic presidential candidate’s camp remained unusually silent following the incident and Clinton could have perhaps come out of it without any real damage if it weren’t for the release of a video documenting the incident in which she almost collapsed.
The GOP nominee told Fox News that he does hope that Clinton recovers well and quickly, and that he is looking forward to seeing her at the debate. Merrill said that Clinton attended “to pay her respects and greet some of the families of the fallen”.
Rumors about Clinton’s health have been persistent, but her campaign earlier released a statement from her doctor saying she is in “excellent health”.
Neither presidential candidate has released their health records. Or rather it will force Clinton to have a conversation about her health in the race.
Jennifer Lawless, a professor of government at American University in Washington, said Clinton will be under pressure to show she is not laid low by illness.
Whereas Clinton and her campaign could laugh off questions about her health before Sunday, the “overheating” episode makes it nearly impossible for them to do so. For a president, who always travels with a protective pool, an hours-long gap without knowledge of their whereabouts could spark unrest in the financial markets and global concern. On CNBC, he said he takes no satisfaction from her problems.
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It’s an accusation that Clinton has tried to play off as a “wacky strategy” from Trump and evidence he embraces an “alternative reality”. “I think they are going to be good, I feel great, but when the numbers come in, I’ll be releasing very specific numbers”, Trump said.
