Posted on 09/11/2016 2:04:34 PM PDT by ransomnote
During a 9/11 memorial ceremony in New York City, Hillary Clinton reportedly began to feel unwell and needed to leave. As she was entering a waiting vehicle, video shows aides helping her into the car as her legs seemed to buckle beneath her.
Naturally, speculation about that buckling flamed out all over social media. People who dislike Clinton leaped to point to what they view as yet more evidence that she’s too elderly or frail or ill or something to be president. Those who want to tamp down that kind of speculation asserted that it was a hot day and she likely felt faint from the heat.
So then we got assertions on Twitter that fainting doesn’t look like that or that one does not “faint from heat.”
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But people do faint from heat, and yes, fainting does look like that. A statement from the Clinton campaign following the event said:
Secretary Clinton attended the September 11th Commemoration Ceremony for just an hour and thirty minutes this morning to pay her respects and greet some of the families of the fallen. During the ceremony, she felt overheated so departed to go to her daughter’s apartment, and is feeling much better.
Clinton herself came out of her daughter’s apartment building within hours of the episode and said that it was “a beautiful day” and that she was feeling better.
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I’ve had heat exhaustion, verging on heat stroke, and yes, I passed out. It was at a lacrosse practice, over 100 degrees and very humid.
Mark
Anyone else notice that the secret service, who is supposed to protect her, took positions to hide her from the media as she was collapsing.
Maybe they could justify it as surrounding her for protection, but I’m willing to bet that their orders from the top of the treasury dept was to hide any appearance of weakness from the media.
Mark
I’ve fainted from the heat...
Ed
They were too late. One could see her head and shoulders suddenly drop as her knees buckled.
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