Democratic Rep. Nadler: 'Ideally' Clinton should have disclosed pneumonia sooner

Hillary Clinton’s campaign “ideally” should have disclosed her pneumonia diagnosis sooner than it did, Democratic New York Rep. Jerry Nadler said Monday.

Although Clinton had been diagnosed Friday and placed on antibiotics, Clinton’s campaign didn’t reveal her condition until 5:15 p.m. Sunday — hours after the Democratic presidential nominee abruptly left a 9/11 memorial service in New York that morning.


Cellphone video shows Clinton stumbling as staff and Secret Service help her into a van. Clinton’s physician, Dr. Lisa Bardack, said Clinton had become “overheated and dehydrated” Sunday morning but said she reexamined the former secretary of state, who was “recovering nicely.”

“Ideally, they should have,” Nadler, a Clinton supporter, told CNN when asked if the campaign should have disclosed Clinton’s pneumonia diagnosis Saturday. “But I think in this day and age when everything about a candidate’s health or anything else is exaggerated, they thought they could avoid doing that. Unfortunately, they couldn’t. But the fact of the matter, she’s a generally healthy candidate and person. She has walking pneumonia and she’ll get over it.”

Nadler said he was with Clinton on Sunday “a little while before” she left. “She seemed fine,” he said. “I was standing near her at the memorial service. It was very hot and stifling. I could see someone feeling a little faint or something.”