Clinton campaign admits ‘we could have done better’ handling pneumonia news | The Guardian |
Hillary Clinton’s campaign has acknowledged mishandling news of her pneumonia…
“We could have done better yesterday,” wrote Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri, after some Democrats began questioning whether the campaign had been fully transparent in its weekend accounts of her health.
“In retrospect, we could have handled it better in providing more information. That’s on us. We regret that,” added press secretary Brian Fallon.
Clinton was filmed losing her footing and being assisted into a waiting van after leaving early from a memorial for 9/11 victims in New York on Sunday.
Initially, campaign aides said she had “overheated”, though Clinton later insisted “I’m feeling great, it’s a beautiful day in New York,” after she left her daughter’s apartment, where she was taken to rest.
But once the video footage emerged – which appeared to support eyewitness accounts of a more serious incident – the campaign issued a short statement from a doctor revealing she was being treated for pneumonia.
Clinton had been diagnosed on Friday but the condition went undisclosed despite the campaign chastising reporters who had questioned bouts of coughing at recent public events.
A follow-up from my earlier diary –