After it was just reported that Hillary Clinton had a “medical episode” at this morning’s 9/11 ceremony in New York, video has now surfaced on Twitter that shows the event that Fox News reporter Rick Leventhal described earlier.
Hillary Clinton 9/11 NYC pic.twitter.com/q9YnsjTxss
— Zdenek Gazda (@zgazda66) September 11, 2016
2nd Angle of video showing Hillary faint, struggling to get into her van:
This IS NOT heat related. #HillarysHealth pic.twitter.com/PFNfCEVFrV
— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) September 11, 2016
The video shows Clinton being escorted to her van after the 9/11 ceremony and waiting for a moment on the curb, while her assistant appears to be holding her left arm to steady her.
It was not enough, as Hillary is about to enter the van, she seems to completely collapse, her “knees buckled”, before she could get in. A Secret Service agent grabs her by her right arm and picks her up off the ground.
Another secret Service agent steps in front of the camera, so we can’t see her assistants actually lifting her up and into the van, but we can see another agent running around from the right side of the vehicle, apparently seeing the situation and looking to help.
There’s no hiding Hillary’s health issues any longer, even though her campaign spokesperson replied to inquires about this “medical episode” by saying that Clinton was merely suffering from “overheating”.
With Hillary’s “basket of deplorables” comment only a few days ago, referring to half of Trump’s supporters as “racists, bigots and xenophobes”, it has not been a good time to be part of the Clinton campaign.
Fox News reports that Clinton then went to Chelsea’s apartment, but only after she had lost her shoe during the “episode” and the NYPD had to come and retrieve it.
But a witness told Fox News that Clinton stumbled off the curb, her “knees buckled” and she lost a shoe as she was helped into a van during her “unexpected early departure.”
The NYPD was sent to retrieve Clinton’s shoe, NBC reported.
An unverified video of the episode appeared to show Clinton collapsing as she was helped into the van.
The New Jersey resident who took the video, Zdenek Gazda, told Foxnews.com he had been a fireman in the Czech Republic and came to the 9/11 ceremony to pay his respects.
“Everything was fine, everything was good before,” said Gazda, who snapped several shots of Clinton before taking the video. “I take a lot of pictures of her. She looked very nice and everything, and I don’t know what happened to her.”
After Clinton left the ceremony, the reporters following her on the campaign trail were prevented from leaving the media area for a period of time.
Clinton emerged from Chelsea Clinton’s apartment just before noon and said she was “feeling great.”
“It’s a beautiful day in New York,” Clinton yelled to press waiting across the street.
Here are the tweets that started it all this morning, from Rick Leventhal, as he described the incident from one of his law enforcement sources.
BREAKING: law enf source: Hillary Clinton just left 9/11 ceremony w/medical episode, appeared to faint on way into van, helped by security
— RickLeventhalFoxNews (@RickLeventhal) September 11, 2016
Source tells me Hillary Clinton “clearly having some type of medical episode” & had to be helped into van by her protective detail at WTC
— RickLeventhalFoxNews (@RickLeventhal) September 11, 2016
MORE ON #HILLARY per witness: “unexpected early departure”; she stumbled off curb, “knees buckled”, lost a shoe as she was helped into van
— RickLeventhalFoxNews (@RickLeventhal) September 11, 2016