sympathy ploy??
You may have landed on it. When in a real trap, sympathy has always been Hillarys Keystone.
Her endless Trail of Tears performance, since she LOST, is all about that. She is badly in debt to ALL those she failed and is probably tired of trying to pay them back, tilling the earth for cash, as well.
Perhaps this dying swan business is for their eyes. ARF! ARF!