Democratic 2016 presidential nomination front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton may be worried about the consistency of some of her stories — and her health, media reports indicate.
Clinton, who turned 68 in late October, was described in a January 26, 2013 email from top aide Huma Abedein as “often confused.” The admission came roughly two months after an early December 2012 fall in which the then-Secretary of State sustained a concussion.
One month later, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland declared, “Judging by the woman we saw this morning and the workload that she’s got she seems to be fully recovered,” according to an ABCNews.com report.
But in that same ABC News story, former President Bill Clinton seemed to differ from the State Department assertion.
“They went to all this trouble to say she had staged what was a terrible concussion that required six months of very serious work to get over,” Bill Clinton said during an appearance at the Peterson Foundation. “It’s something she never low-balled with the American people, never tried to pretend it didn’t happen.”
Those questions about Hillary Clinton’s health and stamina extend into the 2016 campaign.
“She doesn’t have the strength or the stamina to be president,” Reuters quoted GOP contender Donald J.Trump saying to a cheering crowd in Sarasota, Florida. Trump “said she holds the occasional campaign event, and then ‘you don’t see her for three, four days,’ adding, ‘she goes back to sleep,'” according to the news agency. As an aside, Reuters said several of its reporters would disagree with Trump’s claims.
Along with health concerns, the security of Clinton’s emails is also under question, Fox News reports.
“The State Department’s latest release of Hillary Clinton documents brings the total number of Clinton emails known to contain classified material to nearly 1,000,” the news station said. Clinton’s email practices, which included using an unsecured private email server, are under investigation by the FBI, reports indicate.
“The large number of emails containing now-classified material further underscores how much sensitive information was crossing her private server, a situation her critics have described as a security risk,” Fox News reported.
Responding to the new revelations, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus said in a statement, “With the number of emails containing classified information now numbering nearly one thousand, this latest court-ordered release underscores the degree to which Hillary Clinton jeopardized our national security and has tried to mislead the American people. The revelation that Hillary Clinton regularly used her office as Secretary of State to meet with donors to her family foundation and major Democrat fundraisers shows a deliberate mixing of money and politics that her secret server was clearly designed to obfuscate. Hillary Clinton’s compromise of so much sensitive information for the sake of skirting government transparency laws is an irreparable breach of the public trust and shows why she cannot be trusted in the White House.”
