‘Can we just stop talking about Hillary Clinton’s health now?’, snapped Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post on September 6. The whole discussion was ‘totally ridiculous’, a smear campaign by conspiracy theorists, and to believe otherwise you had to assume that her doctor was lying.
Five days later, and even Cillizza thinks it’s permissible to talk about Clinton’s health, having now published a piece with the headline ‘Hillary Clinton’s health just became a real issue in the presidential campaign’. Because yesterday – September 11, of all days – the conspiracy theorists got something right.
Only after the Democratic candidate was forced to leave a national 9/11 commemoration – and just think how desperately ill she must have been feeling to hand Trump that advantage – and was then filmed collapsing as she got into her car, did her doctor announce that she had pneumonia. Earlier, the Clinton camp had tried to pretend that Hillary had simply been overcome by the heat, made worse by her ‘allergic cough’.
In other words, they lied about her health, which is just what the conspiracy theorists have been accusing them of doing for months, if not years.
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