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Trump to reveal health report after Clinton admits she has pneumonia
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REPUBLICAN presidential candidate Donald Trump said yesterday that health is an issue in the election campaign after his rival Hillary Clinton revealed she had pneumonia, and he said he would soon release detailed information about his health.
Asked by Fox News about the health of the candidates, Trump said: “I think it’s an issue. In fact ... this last week I took a physical and .... when the numbers come in I’ll be releasing very, very specific numbers.”
The 70-year-old New York businessman has been suggesting for weeks that Clinton lacks the energy needed to be president. He has raised questions about her stamina, mirroring a strategy used during the Republican primary campaign when he derided rival Jeb Bush as a “low energy” candidate.
After Clinton nearly collapsed on Sunday, her campaign was forced to admit that the 68-year-old Democratic presidential nominee had been diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday after she complained of allergies and was seen coughing repeatedly in recent days.
The pneumonia disclosure was made public hours after her campaign said she had become “overheated” to explain why, knees buckling and unsteady, she was rushed from a ceremony marking the September 11, 2001, attacks in New York.
Democratic donor and fundraiser Bill Bartmann later fielded calls from about half a dozen Democrats worried about how the episode would look. The callers, he said, decided to wait and see how everything plays out.
For Democrats, the incident also brought up some familiar concerns about Clinton’s penchant for secrecy during an ongoing debate about her use of a private e-mail server while serving as President Barack Obama’s secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.
“You’ve got Donald Trump promoting health conspiracy theories to begin with, so any time something even lends an air of credence to that conspiracy, it needs to be debunked right away,” Democratic strategist Bud Jackson said.
The issue also put pressure on both Clinton and Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, to reassure American voters about their health given the rigors of the presidential campaign, in which the food is often unhealthy, sleep elusive and the schedule and extensive travel stressful.
“The short-term turbulence will be more about the handling of this than the substance, though I’m sure both candidates will be pressed for greater disclosure of health records,” said David Axelrod, a former adviser to President Barack Obama.
Late on Sunday, her campaign canceled a trip to California scheduled for yesterday.
The health problem was the latest blow for Clinton at a time when Trump has erased most of her lead in national opinion polls and is competitive again in many battleground states where the November 8 election is likely to be decided.
Her dismissal of half of Trump’s supporters as a “basket of deplorables” of racist, homophobic people on Friday triggered a firestorm of criticism and prompted her to roll back the comment.
Trump is expected to discuss his own health regimen in an on-air interview on Thursday with celebrity physician Dr Mehmet Oz.
He has made no secret of his affinity for fast food, sometimes sharing photos of himself enjoying fried chicken, hamburgers and a taco bowl.
He has made less information available about his health than Clinton has. Last December, he released a statement from his doctor Harold Bornstein that described him in excellent health with “extraordinary” strength and stamina.
“If elected, Mr Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency,” Bornstein wrote. The Manhattan physician said later he wrote the letter in five minutes as a Trump limo waited to pick it up.
Clinton released a two-page letter outlining her medical condition in July 2015 that sought to reassure Americans about her health after she fell and suffered a concussion at home in 2012.
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