David French of National Review Online argues that it’s important to consider the disturbing weekend video of a fainting Hillary Clinton in context.
While it is certainly true that healthy people do sometimes faint, it is also foolish to simply assume that a person who faints on a moderately warm day is healthy. It grows more foolish when that person has fainted before – suffering a concussion and blood clot – then claimed to a federal law enforcement agency that her injuries were severe enough to cause important gaps in her memory. Finally, it is the absolute height of foolishness to simply take Hillary’s word about her own health. Indeed, even today her team not only kept reporters “totally in the dark for 90 minutes,” they allegedly barred them from following her. …
… Simply put, we can’t believe a single word that she says — absent independent verification. I agree with the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza. Transparency is necessary:
A coughing episode is almost always just a coughing episode. But when coupled with Clinton’s “overheating” on Sunday morning — with temperatures something short of sweltering — Clinton and her team simply need to say something about what happened (and why the press was in the dark for so long.) And as the New York Times’s Adam Nagourney tweeted on Sunday morning, now might be a good time for Clinton to release a fuller record of her medical history.
Each major candidate should release their records. Health is an issue for Hillary Clinton, but it’s an issue for every candidate for president. The American people deserve to know who is healthy — and who (maybe) is not.
