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The concussion, the pneumonia, the fake records, and two paternity stories
RECORD / AT A GLANCE
Mostly false
She had a real concussion and a blood clot in 2012 and real pneumonia in 2016, and her campaign was slow to disclose the second. The “leaked” medical records were forged. A DNA test disproved the Danney Williams story.
THE EVENTS / THE INVESTIGATION / THE STORY
Jan 1999
A tabloid’s DNA comparison disproves the claim that Bill Clinton fathered Danney Williams.
Dec 2012
She faints, suffers a concussion and is hospitalised with a blood clot.
Aug 2016
Forged medical records circulate online.
11 Sep 2016
She stumbles leaving the 9/11 memorial; her doctor discloses pneumonia.
READ THE FILE
She was hospitalised. The faking charge came before the clot was found.
Real pneumonia, disclosed only after the video.
Forged, with the wrong job title on the letterhead.
A DNA test answered this in 1999.
An internet rumor she answered herself.
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Records the accusation (including John Bolton’s “diplomatic illness” remark) and State’s response.
Contemporaneous report with the State Department’s medical statement.
Her physician’s statement: diagnosed on the Friday, overheated and dehydrated at the ceremony.
Walks through the seizure, Parkinson’s and body-double claims of 2016.
Shows the circulated “records” were forged; her physician called them fake.
Contemporaneous report that a tabloid’s DNA comparison found no match.
Her own answer to the Hubbell rumor.
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She was hospitalised. The faking charge came before the clot was found.
In December 2012, days before scheduled Benghazi testimony, the State Department said Clinton, ill with a stomach virus, had fainted and suffered a concussion. John Bolton suggested on Fox News she was avoiding Congress, calling it “a diplomatic illness to beat the band”; the State Department hit back. [1][2]
On 30 December she was hospitalised in New York with a blood clot found in a follow-up exam and treated with blood thinners. She testified in January 2013. [2]
Records the accusation (including John Bolton’s “diplomatic illness” remark) and State’s response.
Contemporaneous report with the State Department’s medical statement.
Real pneumonia, disclosed only after the video.
On 11 September 2016 Clinton left the memorial early and was filmed buckling as she was helped into a van. Her doctor, Lisa Bardack, then said Clinton had been diagnosed with pneumonia two days earlier and had become overheated and dehydrated. [1]
Through 2016, sites claimed she had seizures, citing a head-shake in a June video; the AP reporter who was there said it was an exaggerated joke. [2]
Her physician’s statement: diagnosed on the Friday, overheated and dehydrated at the ceremony.
Walks through the seizure, Parkinson’s and body-double claims of 2016.
Forged, with the wrong job title on the letterhead.
In August 2016 documents dated February 2014 and claiming to be from Clinton’s doctor said she had seizures and dementia. Dr. Bardack called them “false.” FactCheck.org noted her title was wrong on the letterhead. [1]
Shows the circulated “records” were forged; her physician called them fake.
A DNA test answered this in 1999.
A 1992 tabloid story said Bill Clinton fathered a son, Danney Williams, with an Arkansas woman. In January 1999 a DNA comparison paid for by the Star tabloid disproved it. The claim resurfaced in 2016. [1]
Contemporaneous report that a tabloid’s DNA comparison found no match.
An internet rumor she answered herself.
A long-running rumor says Chelsea Clinton’s father is Webster Hubbell, a former law partner of Hillary Clinton. Asked at a 2015 book signing, she said: “I am so proud to be my parents’ daughter.” No evidence supports the rumor. [1]
Her own answer to the Hubbell rumor.
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