Hillary Clinton Campaign’s ‘Catastrophic’ Coverup [VIDEO]

“…a “self-inflicted f*cking nightmare,” says one Clinton ally.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign is in trouble.

In addition to the ongoing (and seemingly never ending) email revelations that has steadily eroded her lead in polls, Candidate Clinton chose to attack her opponent Donald Trump’s supporters, calling them a “basket of deplorables” while at a fundraiser on Friday.

On Saturday, facing a social media backlash, Clinton was forced to retract the slur.

From there, however, it only has gotten worse…

“…a “self-inflicted f*cking nightmare.”

To make matters worse for Clinton, however, was Sunday’s near collapse and the campaign’s conflicting stories about her ongoing health issues.

What was, at first, explained as an episode of Clinton feeling “overheated”—despite it being in the mid-70s in New York on Sunday morning—was later revised and upgraded.

Several hours later after her near-collapse, the “overheated” explanation was upgraded to the explanation that Candidate Clinton was diagnosed with pneumonia…last Friday.

The problem with that explanation was that her campaign did not come up with the ‘pneumonia’ excuse until after Candidate Clinton nearly collapse onto the street.

The most charitable reading of this timeline is that her campaign — presumably with the blessing and perhaps insistence of the candidate — fully intended to keep her illness a secret from the public. Let’s be clear about what this means: Her campaign intended to lie. Even though doing so would require her to keep up a public schedule that might well make her condition worse and require ever-more elaborate forms of concealment. Because, of course, to curtail her schedule would raise questions that might reveal the truth.

So even after she collapsed, the campaign decided the ruse would continue. It arranged for the candidate to make her curbside declaration of wellness, even bringing on the girl to give her a “spontaneous” hug. (Clinton’s protection detail would never have permitted a genuinely spontaneous embrace on the street, even by a child.)

The Clinton campaign’s seeming coverup of her health issues has made an already suspicious public even more suspicious—leading many to speculate that Clinton is suffering from Parkinson’s disease.

The Clinton campaign’s handling of her health issues has led one ally to describe “the string of events that culminated in Clinton leaving a Sept. 11 memorial early as a ‘self-inflicted fucking nightmare.'”

Antibiotics can take care of pneumonia. What's the cure for an unhealthy penchant for privacy that repeatedly creates unnecessary problems?

— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) September 12, 2016

Even the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza is having a hard time with the issue of Hillary’s health.



As the Week’s Emmanuel Gobry points out, “As with everything concerning the Clintons, there are two entangled issues here: the actual issue of Clinton’s health, and the cloud of lies and misdirection that the Clinton machine has sprayed into the air around the actual issue.”

Now, those issues seem to be even more entangled than ever—and likely won’t be untangled before November.

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