[Robert A Cook PE]

Or the aide wasn’t thinking ... But reacting automatically - from past experiences.

Sometimes the simple answer is actually what happened. In the Clinton campaign, that is not true very often, but it might happen. Eventually. 8<)

[bert]

I would prefer to believe that the aide knew Hillary lacked the presence of mind to drink from the bottle. She too is programmed to drink from the proffered glass always at hand

The crisis was that hillary had no presence of mind