If that were an actual “violent, uncontrolled” seizure would she really be smiling and laughing through it? Can people — even politicians — shift gears so fast?
No.
It was a very short one, but she was clearly out of control, it was sudden, violent and scared the crap out of the journalist.
It was over quickly and she had to act fast, so she pretended to be horsing around - but you can clearly see the worried look in her eyes when she tried to laugh it off.
It was not particularly violent but it was uncontrolled. And yes, she could well have been smiling through it. Look at her eyes- they defocus. It looked to me very like a petit mal epileptic seizure. I had a lot of them before my neurons grew back together and saw videos of myself after. Her lapses and abrupt changes of subject with momentary defocusing of the eyes look like less severe seizures.
