Facing intensifying scrutiny about her health, the Democrat will also make new disclosures of medical records and data, as her team acknowledged it stumbled when it failed to transparently alert the press and public about
"I just didn’t think it was going to be that big a deal,"
"It’s just the kind of thing that if it happens to you and you’re a busy, active person, you keep moving forward."
Discussing the event itself, she explained: "I felt dizzy and I did lose my balance for a minute.
The incident -- captured on amateur video -- gave her Republican rival Donald Trump, 70, a new opening to question her fitness for the nation’s highest office as the race heats up with eight weeks until Election Day.
"There’s no other undisclosed condition. The pneumonia is the extent of it,"
On CNN,
Scuttled travel plans
Her health woes forced
In his first public comments since
But he also suggested the former secretary of state’s health issues were of longer standing than admitted.
"Something is going on but I just hope she gets well and gets back on the trail, and we’ll be seeing her at the debate" in two weeks, the Republican told Fox News.
The unexpected turn of events has turned a conservative angle of attack into a serious line of questioning about
"Antibiotics can take care of pneumonia. What’s the cure for an unhealthy penchant for privacy that repeatedly creates unnecessary problems?" asked David Axelrod, a former White House aide to Barack Obama.
But she quickly insisted she has been far more transparent than Trump.
"The information is out there. You can’t say the same thing about Donald Trump," she said.
"The American people deserve to know what he’s up to and what he is hiding." — AFP