ALARMING VIDEO: Hillary Clinton, barely able to stand, stumbles into vehicle aided by five members of her entourage after “medical episode”:
UPDATE, 12:45pm: Clinton’s campaign team says that the candidate is now returning to her home in Chappaqua, New York. Press are not invited.
Clinton’s press spokesperson says she “felt overheated” but insists she has now fully recovered from what one source described to Heat Street as a “medical episode.”
She waved at cameras as she left Chelsea Clinton’s apartment where she recovered from the incident.
Some law enforcement sources, speaking to the Daily Beast, cast doubt on the campaign’s explanation that the episode was heat related, telling reporters that Clinton looked “pale” and unwell when she arrived at the memorial service this morning.
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Hillary Clinton’s campaign has hit big trouble on the most solemn day of the year. At the 9/11 Memorial Ceremony, Clinton “fainted” according to a law enforcement source that spoke to a Fox News reporter.
Her press pool was then penned in away from her with no knowledge of Secretary Clinton’s whereabouts or health. When reporters were let out, Clinton, 68, had already left the ceremony.
As a former New York Senator, Secretary Clinton would have been expected to attend the 9/11 ceremony and be present and prominent throughout, to honor the victims of Islamist terrorism.
NBC News then tweeted that Secretary Clinton had “a medical episode”. The tweet was later hastily deleted and replaced by this:
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Fox News reported that (as the video shows) that Secretary Clinton’s knees buckled as she was helped into her high-security van during her early departure from the memorial. Fox reports that Clinton lost her shoe during the incident.
The Clinton-friendly Washington Post is now quoting sources from her campaign saying the Secretary felt “overheated”.
“Secretary Clinton attended the September 11th Commemoration Ceremony for just an hour and thirty minutes this morning to pay her respects and greet some of the families of the fallen,” Nick Merrill said, according to the Post. “During the ceremony, she felt overheated, so departed to go to her daughter’s apartment and is feeling much better.”
The temperature in Manhattan late morning was 82 degrees and breezy in the area of the 9/11 Memorial which is on the water.
As for the site of Secretary Clinton’s convalescence, it is sure to have air conditioning. Chelsea Clinton and her family live in a $10.5 million “luxury fortress” that stretches over a full city block in New York’s exclusive Madison Square Park neighborhood.