Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign

by Jonathan Allen

During the service, Hillary began to feel overheated and faint. She walked away from the event and toward a waiting van with the assistance of an aide. As she moved to get into the van, her body pitched and slumped. She was dragged the last couple of feet into the vehicle, with her feet scraping across the curb. Her campaign initially said nothing and didn’t even alert her traveling press pool of reporters that she would be leaving early. The media learned of Hillary’s departure when video of her being hoisted into the van surfaced online. For the next couple of hours, in the absence of any clarifying information from the campaign, media outlets played the video over and over, and pundits both professional and amateur speculated on social media about whether she was suffering from a serious health problem. Kaine e-mailed to check on her soon after the video began playing on television and she responded that she was fine. He hadn’t been told of the pneumonia diagnosis either.