Criticizing Hillary Clinton’s secrecy over her health status is now a bipartisan affair.
Former Barack Obama strategist David Axelrod took to Twitter on Monday to imply antibiotics won’t cure what’s ailing Clinton.
Antibiotics can take care of pneumonia. What's the cure for an unhealthy penchant for privacy that repeatedly creates unnecessary problems?
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) September 12, 2016
“Antibiotics can take care of pneumonia,” Axelrod write. “What’s the cure for an unhealthy penchant for privacy that repeatedly creates unnecessary problems?”
Clinton’s campaign fired back, with communications director Jennifer Palmieri responding, “We could have done better yesterday, but it is a fact that public knows more about HRC than any nominee in history.”
We could have done better yesterday, but it is a fact that public knows more about HRC than any nominee in history. https://t.co/Q50oHK85wQ
— Jennifer Palmieri (@jmpalmieri) September 12, 2016
Influential Democrats like Axelrod seem to disagree.
Meanwhile, liberal commentator Cokie Roberts said on NPR’s Morning Edition on Monday that Democrats are “angry at the lack of transparency” after Clinton’s collapse on a New York City street on Sunday.
“It was hours after the pneumonia diagnosis was revealed after seeing this incredibly damaging video of her being helped and stumbling into a van,” Roberts said.
“Look, there’s a reason why the campaign’s not transparent, obviously, it gives Trump ammunition and he’s been setting her up for this for months.
“Back in January, he started saying she didn’t have the strength and stamina to be president and he knew at some point that she, like all candidates, would get exhausted,” Roberts said.
“But the fact that it comes now, when the polls are tightening, and Democrats were already saying that Hillary was the only candidate who could not beat Trump. And it’s taking her off of the campaign trail, canceling her trip to California today.
“It has them very nervously beginning to whisper about trying to have her step aside and finding another candidate,” Roberts said.
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