#ImWithHer #VoteClintonKaine Clinton campaign says she left 9/11 event feeling overheated, later diagnosed as pneumonia and dehydration

Clinton campaign says she left 9/11 event feeling overheated, later diagnosed as pneumonia and dehydration."She felt overheated so departed to go to her daughter's apartment, and is feeling much better," her campaign said
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, center, accompanied by Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., center left, Rep. Joseph Crowley, D-N.Y., second from left, and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, center top, attends a ceremony at the Sept. 11 memorial, in New York.(Credit: AP)


Hillary Clinton unexpectedly left Sunday’s 9/11 anniversary ceremony in New York after feeling “overheated” and retreated to her daughter’s nearby apartment. She was later diagnosed with pneumonia and dehydration put on antibiotic and re hydrated.  As she exited the apartment shortly before noon, Clinton said, “I’m feeling great.”

Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill said in a statement that Clinton attended the morning ceremony for 90 minutes “to pay her respects and greet some of the families of the fallen.

“During the ceremony, she felt overheated so departed to go to her daughter’s apartment, and is feeling much better,” Merrill said.

Clinton walked out of her daughter’s apartment on her own and made  a brief comments to the reporters waiting outside, saying “It’s a beautiful day in New York. and 'I feeling fine:” She waved and posed for a photo with a young girl before getting into her motorcade.

Donald Trump supporters have tried to make the case that she’s physically unfit for the White House, citing a concussion she sustained in December 2012 after fainting. Her doctor attributed the episode to a stomach virus and dehydration.

Trump attended the same memorial service at ground zero in lower Manhattan, along with New York’s Democratic senators, Chuck Schumer and Kirstin Gillibrand. The weather was'extremely  warm and very humid in New York on Sunday, and there was no breeze at the crowded memorial plaza during the ceremony.

Clinton’s departure from the event was not witnessed by the reporters who travel with her campaign, which did not offer any information about why she left and her whereabouts for more than an hour but it later transpired that she went to her daughters  newby apart ment as previously arranged where she was examine by her doctor.

Asked after the event about Clinton’s health incident, Trump said, “I don’t know anything about it.”

Neither Trump nor Clinton spoke at the event, in keeping with the solemn nature of the annual remembrance of the deadliest terror attack on American soil.