Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid defended Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s health on Tuesday, saying Donald Trump is not “slim and trim” and brags about eating fast food every day.
“She has pneumonia,” Reid said. “And she’s well. She’s, you know, it’s curable. No one denies that. She’s off the campaign trail for a few days. She probably needed to rest anyway.”
Clinton was diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday but her illness was disclosed Sunday, only after she collapsed while leaving the Sept. 11 memorial service in New York.
Reid told reporters at a Tuesday press conference that they should focus more on Trump’s charities “and what he’s done to cheat people.”
He added reporters should “look at his health a bit.”
Reid pointed out that Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., who was standing behind him, was also diagnosed with pneumonia recently but has recovered.
“You’ve all been unfair to Hillary,” Reid said. “She submitted a multiple-page report from a doctor. A good doctor talking about what medicine she’s on, and been pretty clear. She has had pneumonia. She’s going to submit something more. But look at Donald Trump, at his medical records, which are nonexistent, just like his cheating people on his contributions to charities.”
