New E-mail: Hillary Clinton ‘Often Confused’ as Secretary of State
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A newly revealed e-mail sent by top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin in January 2013 shows that the then-outgoing secretary of state was “often confused” and had to have her schedule explained to her by staff.
Released to conservative watchdog Judicial Watch as part of a Freedom of Information Act request, the January 26, 2013 e-mail shows Abedin instructing Monica Hanley, another State Department aide, to remind Clinton of important calls scheduled with world leaders.
“She knows singh [sic] is at 8?” Abedin asks Hanley, referring to a scheduled 8 AM phone call with Indian’s then-prime minister, Manmohan Singh.
“She was in bed for a nap by the time I heard she had an 8am call,” Hanley replied. “Will go over with her.”
“Very imp[ortant] to do that,” Abedin replied. “She’s often confused.”
Clinton suffered a slew of health problems at the end of 2012, including a potentially life-threatening blood clot and a fall that caused a serious concussion. She spent weeks recovering in a hospital before returning to work on January 7, when State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said she was “fully recovered.”
In May 2014, Bill Clinton claimed his wife took six months to “get over” the concussion and its after-effects. That same month political strategist Karl Rove suggested Clinton may have suffered a traumatic brain injury that could make her ineligible for the office of the presidency.
If Clinton’s White House bid is successful, she’ll be 69 years old when she walks into the Oval Office in January 2017. That’s the same age as Ronald Reagan was in 1981, when his first term in the White House began. Reagan’s opponents made an issue of his old age and health concerns during the 1980 campaign.
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