It’s Time for Team Hillary to Shut up About Conspiracy Theorists

Hillary Clinton collapsed after a 9/11 remembrance ceremony at Ground Zero yesterday. This is a critical event that may finally force some medical transparency on the Clinton campaign for president. If Clinton continues to stonewall the press and make believe that she does not owe the American people an in depth explanation of her health problems, Sunday’s medical incident might prove to be a turning point where voters shift to Trump and Hillary’s campaign falls apart.

The “Ill-ary” jokes and Trump’s constant ribbing that Hillary needs a nap have gone from humorous a serious matter. It is time for Team Clinton to come clean.

According to the New York Times:

Hillary Clinton on Sunday abruptly left a ceremony in New York marking the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, and a video appeared to show her struggling to maintain her balance as a pair of Secret Service agents lifted her into a van. The incident, according to a statement from her physician, was related to pneumonia and dehydration.

The video released to the public is shocking. It appears that she did more than struggle “to maintain her balance.” It looked like she collapsed.

More from the NYT.

Secretary Clinton has been experiencing a cough related to allergies. On Friday, during follow up evaluation of her prolonged cough, she was diagnosed with pneumonia,” said Dr. Lisa R. Bardack, who examined Mrs. Clinton at her house in Chappaqua on Sunday. “She was put on antibiotics, and advised to rest and modify her schedule. While at this morning’s event, she became overheated and dehydrated. I have just examined her and she is now re-hydrated and recovering nicely.

The problem with this explanation is that this latest Hillary incident is not isolated; it is part of a pattern. The M.D. talking heads on our cable networks are going to have quite a bit to talk about for the next 48 hours as they analyze Hillary’s medical history and condition. Expect a large dose of Dr. Sanjay Gupta over at CNN.

Ultimately, the health of the candidate is a very important issue for three reasons.

Hillary has seemed ill for weeks

Clinton’s constant coughing over the past few weeks has been a real concern for many Americans. Concealing a real medical problem from the public would be yet another example of her dishonesty with the American people.

The New York Times reported on September 6, 2016, that Hillary was blaming her cough on “allergies.

Her allergies, Mrs. Clinton explained, flare up twice a year, in the spring and fall, when pollen and other allergens come out. “I just upped my antihistamine to try to break through it,” she said. “It lasts a couple days and then it disappears.”

It’s no secret Hillary struggle to tell the truth. When convenient, she has blamed her inability to answer questions from the FBI on a concussion. Now her claim about allergies seems to be another misrepresentation of her actual health situation.— pneumonia.

Hillary has avoided interactions with the press until only recently. Maybe she was avoiding the press getting an extended look at her. I theorized in the past that Hillary was walled off from the press because she didn’t see any value in speaking to them. Now I think it possible that she didn’t want the press to spend too much time seeing her in person and assessing her health.

Hillary has made quite a few bizarre statements over the past few months, and one has to wonder if health problems are a contributing factor. Hillary called millions of Americans who support Donald Trump “deplorables” recently, and basically argued that Trump’s base is a bunch of racist, sexist haters. The constantly changing excuses for her emailing of classified information on a personal server while secretary of state seems irrational. Maybe these bizarre statements are a symptom of something more serious?

Her health history is in dispute

Conspiracy theories have bounced that Hillary has some very serious health problems. The only way to dispel the theories is for Hillary’s doctors to provide full details of her current medical condition. Instead, they have chosen to attack anybody questioning her health.

Chapter one of the Clinton PR Playbook, as you may recall, is to attack any reporter who asks a tough question (just ask Matt Lauer) or to attack anybody who questions Hillary on a substantive matter. It’s why the water carriers for Team Clinton have spent the last few months attacking anybody who questions Hillary’s health.

Think Progress, the Clinton family think tank blog, wrote a piece titled “Trump Campaign Embraces Conspiracy Theory About Hillary Clinton’s Cough.” In the article, Think Progress argued that the Trump Campaign pointed “people down a rabbit hole of right-wing conspiracy theories about Clinton’s health.” Well, it seems like there may be a rabbit in that hole.

The Daily Beast wrote “Is Hillary Clinton’s Cough the New Benghazi?” The article argued this has been a vast Right wing conspiracy for over a decade:

If all else fails, the people dreading a Hillary Clinton presidency can comfort themselves with her coughing fits. The presumptive Democratic nominee’s occasional coughing on the stump—a staple of this year’s campaign reports in various right-leaning media outlets—has been a conservative meme for nearly a decade.

If Hillary wants to stop answering questions about her health, she and her doctors need to release a new report. Take a look at the last available report of the Democratic nominee’s health, written by Hillary’s own doctors in a letter released a year ago:

Ms. Clinton is a healthy 67-year-old female whose current medical conditions include hypothyroidism and seasonal pollen allergies. Her past medical history is notable for a deep vein thrombosis in 1998 and in 2009, an elbow fracture in 2009 and a concussion in 2012.

That’s an old letter. It’s time for a new letter from an unbiased and independent doctor to put these concerns to rest.

Hillary Health Issues are Not a Conspiracy

The fact of the matter is that Hillary continues to keep the press in the dark. If she was diagnosed on Friday with pneumonia, then why didn’t we find out until after her meltdown on Sunday? And if she has pneumonia, then why did she have that awkward walk from her daughter’s apartment after her collapse to her caravan of secret service where she yelled to the press about it being a nice day? It was yet another way to make believe that Hillary is completely healthy.

It is time for the Left to stop slandering individuals who have theories as “conspiracy theorists,” because they refuse to come clean. If the Clinton campaign wants people to go away and stop talking about her health problems, it is time to tell the truth and explain why they sat on her diagnosis as having pneumonia and what actually happened when she could not walk into her car during the 9-11 remembrance ceremony.

If Hillary Clinton, possible next President of the United States is sick – the American people have the right to know. The Left has been clamoring for Trump’s taxes, yet this seems far more important to know if a candidate for President is healthy enough to take on the job.

No matter how you feel about Hillary Clinton, it is time for Americans to wish her the best and hope she can get some rest and back on her feet. (For more from the author of “It’s Time for Team Hillary to Shut up About Conspiracy Theorists” please click HERE)

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