Clinton’s aide says ‘We could have done better,’ amid criticism over health disclosures

A top aide to Senator Hillary Clinton acknowledged that the campaign could have handled news of her pneumonia diagnosis better after being criticised for keeping the public and the media in the dark.
“We could have done better yesterday, but it is a fact that the public knows more about HRC than any nominee in history,” wrote Clinton Communications Director, Jennifer Palmieri, on Twitter in response to the criticism, using the initials of the Democratic presidential nominee.
President Barack Obama’s former campaign strategist, David Axelrod, took a swipe at the campaign earlier in the morning by suggesting that although Clinton’s pneumonia could be treated with antibiotics, an “unhealthy penchant for privacy that repeatedly creates unnecessary problems” could not.
Clinton was first diagnosed with pneumonia by her doctor, Lisa Bardack, who prescribed medication and advised Clinton to rest and modify her schedule.
But on Sunday morning, Clinton appeared at an event commemorating the 15th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks and became overheated and dehydrated.
Video footage appeared to show her buckling as she was helped into a waiting van by her security detail.
On Sunday night, her campaign announced that she would cancel a planned trip to California on Monday and Tuesday.
Clinton will instead remain at her home in Chappaqua, N.Y., to rest but will teleconference into a San Francisco fundraiser Monday night.
Meanwhile, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, raised questions about Clinton’s handling of the situation.
“Lack of transparency is an overarching theme,” Conway wrote Monday morning.
But Palmieri noted, in response to Axelrod’s criticism, that Clinton has released more medical and financial information than Trump, who has refused to release his tax returns and released a letter from a doctor that was widely criticized for lacking any concrete medical information about his health.
“In contrast to HRC, Trump has been less transparent than any nominee in modern history,” Palmieri wrote.
Perhaps anticipating this line of criticism, Trump said in a television interview on Monday morning that he would release more, “very, very specific” medical information soon.
“Hopefully they’re going to be good. I think they’re going to be good,” Trump said on Fox News on Monday morning. “I feel great.”
*Culled from The Washington Post