Hillary Clinton calls 2016 9/11 ceremony appearance a mistake

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 15 Oct, 21:38 · Archive

Hillary Clinton has said campaigning with pneumonia during the 2016 presidential race was a mistake.

Hillary Clinton has conceded that campaigning while suffering from pneumonia during the 2016 presidential race was a mistake. She made the comments on a podcast with Kara Swisher whilst discussing Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico's recent nine-day absence from campaigning after contracting flu.

Clinton said her doctors advised her to take five or six days off, but she felt she had to continue and appear at a 9/11 commemoration ceremony because it meant a lot to her as a senator during the attacks. The viral video from that ceremony showed her appearing to stagger and nearly faint.

"They tested me and they said, 'Oh, you've got pneumonia. You need to take like five or six days off.' I said, 'I can't do that.' And my doctor said, 'Well, that's what you should do.' But I'm campaigning and I have to show up on 9/11 because it means a lot to me since, as you know, I was a senator. So, I kept going, which was a mistake," Clinton recalled. She said the resulting video of her struggling to reach her car caused media coverage that she described as papering social media and traditional media.

How it is being reported

• Hillary Clinton finally admits 2016 near-fainting episode at 9/11 memorial was a ‘mistake’White House spokesman Davis Ingle said Clinton should think about moving on from the 2016 election.New York Post · 15 Oct, 21:23
• Hillary Clinton concedes infamous 9/11 near-fainting episode in 2016 was a 'mistake' on her partHillary Clinton called campaigning with pneumonia during the 2016 race a "mistake" while discussing the viral 9/11 memorial ceremony video on a recent podcast.Fox News · 15 Oct, 16:15

In this story: Hillary Clinton · Kara Swisher · James Talarico · Donald Trump

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