Posted on 10/15/2026 6:46:41 PM PDT by Libloather
Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton revisited the video showing her appearing to stagger and nearly faint after a 9/11 commemoration ceremony in 2016, conceding on Wednesday that campaigning while having pneumonia was a “mistake.”
The former secretary of state spoke to Kara Swisher on their new joint podcast about Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico’s nine-day absence from the campaign trail after he said he contracted the flu.
His absence from public appearances led to a viral online rumor wrongly alleging that he had secretly been admitted to an Ohio mental health facility, which Clinton and Swisher said was “easily disproven.”
Clinton compared Talarico’s experience to her own after the 2016 video went viral as she ran for president, arguing that critics portrayed her as being “on death’s door.”
Swisher said that President Donald Trump was “quantumly sicker” than Clinton had been, though “they hide it,” and asked Clinton to respond.
“They tested me and they said, ‘Oh, you’ve got pneumonia. You need to take like five or six days off.’ I said, ‘I can’t do that.’ And my doctor said, ‘Well, that’s what you should do.’ And I thought, ‘Well, yeah, that’s what I should do.’
“But I’m campaigning and I have to show up on 9/11 because it means a lot to me since, as you know, I was a senator [during the attacks]. So, I kept going, which was a mistake,” Clinton recalled.
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Two separate videos show Hillary Clinton stumbling after unexpectedly leaving a 9/11 event in New York City on Sunday and then emerging from her daughter Chelsea's apartment in good spirits.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/2016/09/11/video-clinton-falls-stumbles-collapses-911-chelsea/90230658/
Ophthalmologist says glasses worn by Clinton used to treat double vision
“…portrayed her as being “on death’s door.”
Nope. Portrayed as being arrested. There wasn’t an ambulance in sight for a former First Lady, Sec of State, prez candidate
Nope
Video
Hillary Clinton Stumbles 9-11-2016
https://rumble.com/vmdxiz-hillary-clinton-stumbles-9-11-2016.html
Actually this finally explains what happened to me. Pneumonia is no joke for not passing out.
When I was much younger I was shoveling snow and was like dang I’m so out of shape. I was like WTF...is wrong with me. End up I had double pneumonia. I can’t imagine having at age 70 or whatever age she was.
In my best Jon Lovitz voice, “pneumonia, yeah, that’s the ticket!”
Damn liar.
My sister in law had those glasses and had to wear a padded head covering. She has to spend the rest of her life on seizure prevention meds and Phenobarbital. The glasses do a good job on preventing seizures too. I don't know how they do that?
Trump should have given Zdenek Gazda the Presidential Medal of Freedom for risking death by filming and releasing that video.
I don’t mind the fainting, it’s the waking up part i didn’t like.
Ya. Ok. Could be drunk
Please make it stop. No body cares. Those who do need to get a life.
They're pulling a Biden with this guy.
Hillary has had quite a lot of plastic surgery.
And as she aged, she went blond, not gray.
Other than that, as revolting as ever.
Some on YouTube believe she has kuru.
Photo....
That was the day when a body double, a little shorter and not as fat, was seen smiling and waving from a ramp beside a building a few yards away but never got close enough to the reporters to be looked at closely. I am fully convinced it was a double. Story never disproven or proven, I think.
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