Trump on Hillary Clinton: “I Hope She Gets Well Soon”

by Josh Guckert

Republican nominee Donald Trump demonstrated mostly uncharacteristic silence on the topic of Hillary Clinton‘s health. However, today, he finally made a statement on the matter. Said Trump, “I really just don’t know. I hope she gets well soon. I don’t know what’s going on.”

He continued on to say that “I see what I see. The coughing fit was a week ago, so I assume that was pneumonia also. I mean, I would think it would have been. So something’s going on but I just hope she gets well and gets back on the trail and we’ll be seeing her at the debate.”

As to his own health, Trump said that he recently had a physical exam. He will release the results soon. Trump said, “I’ll be releasing, when the numbers come, hopefully they are going to be good, I think they are going to be good, I feel great, but when the numbers come in, I’ll be releasing very, very specific numbers.”

Hillary Clinton’s health figures to be a central theme of conservative attacks over the next two months. Should critics successfully frame the Democratic nominee as unable to do the job, it could provide an opening for the Republican nominee, who has otherwise trailed in most polls up to this point.

Watch Trump allude to Clinton’s health last month: