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Hillary Clinton finally admits 2016 near-fainting episode at 9/11 memorial was a ‘mistake’
Fox News ^ | 10/15/2026 | Lindsay Kornick

Posted on 10/17/2026 4:15:22 PM PDT by simpson96

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.”(snip)

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.

She added, “They did have the video of me struggling to get to the car to be able to, you know, take some breaths and recover myself. From my perspective, it worked because it was just papering social media, papering traditional media. ‘I was dying. I was lying about my health.’ This is from a guy who has never given us an honest medical report ever. Ever.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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KEYWORDS: 2016; 2016election; clinton; hillaryclinton; pneumonia
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...tossed into that van like a side o' beef!

1 posted on 10/17/2026 4:15:22 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: simpson96

Sorry....not buying her revisionist pneumonia story.


2 posted on 10/17/2026 4:16:30 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: simpson96

Yeah. Sure, Hill.


3 posted on 10/17/2026 4:19:09 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: simpson96
She had a cold.


4 posted on 10/17/2026 4:20:03 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Libloather

Shouldn’t the toe of that shoe be cloven?


5 posted on 10/17/2026 4:23:52 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: simpson96

She might have been 50 points ahead if that hadn’t happened.

Sarcastic on the 50 points.


6 posted on 10/17/2026 4:24:39 PM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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To: simpson96
being “on death’s door”

No. The good die young.

7 posted on 10/17/2026 4:26:02 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: simpson96

Near-fainting? She was out.


8 posted on 10/17/2026 4:29:02 PM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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She’s signaling she’s tanned rested and ready!


9 posted on 10/17/2026 4:29:22 PM PDT by Reily
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To: wally_bert

“Why am I not 50 points ahead?”

One of the funniest things I ever heard. Truly showed how utterly out of touch with reality that crazy woman was.


10 posted on 10/17/2026 4:36:57 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: simpson96

Says the woman who stated she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary, not realizing he climbed Mt. Everest 2 years after she was born.


11 posted on 10/17/2026 4:44:53 PM PDT by 7thson (I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
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To: simpson96

Trump should have given Zdenek Gazda the Presidential Medal of Freedom for risking death by filming and releasing that video.


12 posted on 10/17/2026 5:01:18 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (If the Islamic Republic government is in power in Iran when the war is over, we will have lost.)
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To: ealgeone

vodka and Xanax


13 posted on 10/17/2026 5:10:36 PM PDT by changeitback440
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To: simpson96

Throw her in the van, Stan!

Put her in the back, Jack!

Toss her like a side of beef, chief!


14 posted on 10/17/2026 5:16:41 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: simpson96

Have you ever seen them tossing those cold, dead fish at the market in Seattle?

Same thing.


15 posted on 10/17/2026 5:17:53 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

16 posted on 10/17/2026 5:38:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills and jihadists anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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‘...not buying her revisionist pneumonia story.”

Me neither.

Was she not up and about that afternoon? Went and saw the grandkid or Chelsea or something like that? IOW miraculous fast recovery from pneumonia.


17 posted on 10/17/2026 5:48:15 PM PDT by Susquehanna Patriot
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To: Susquehanna Patriot

yep....she was indeed.


18 posted on 10/17/2026 5:49:06 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Libloather

Is that the picture from when the house fell on her??


19 posted on 10/17/2026 6:12:08 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (🦅 )
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To: simpson96

Revisionist history from Hillary. And we know she never lies. And at this point…. What difference does it make?! She is not and never will be President…. She sold her soul for the prize and never got it.


20 posted on 10/17/2026 6:14:25 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support lthe civilized man.)
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