Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said Hillary Clinton’s failure to disclose her health condition constitutes as lying, yet refused to say whether her candidate would release his full medical history or tax records.
Conway suggested during a Tuesday CNN interview that there is little difference between Clinton lying and failing to disclose information when asked about the candidate’s recent health scare.
“It’s always parsing the words,” Conway said after claiming Clinton lied about her health and treats the press like “second-class citizens.”
Clinton lost her footing outside of a 9/11 memorial event on Sunday and the public did not know about her whereabouts for 90 minutes. The campaign initially claimed she “overheated” before revealing that she had been diagnosed with pneumonia late last week.
Conway said she wasn’t sure if Trump’s entire medical history will be made public, but gave her assurances that the Republican presidential nominee wouldn’t lie about his condition. She did say that he had a physical last week that she expected to be released soon.
“I don’t know, but I’ll tell you what he won’t be releasing, he won’t be releasing the fact that he had pneumonia for two days and lied about it.”
Though Conway criticized Clinton for a lack of transparency, Conway refused to answer whether he would release proof that he is under audit by the Internal Revenue Service, going so far as to ask interviewer Alisyn Camerota if she was “calling him a liar.” Trump has refused to release his tax returns until the investigation by the federal government is completed.
“I don’t know. Why? In other words, are you calling him a liar?” Conway said, before Camerota responded that the public is being asked to take his word on it without documentation. “And we’re taking Hillary Clinton’s word for it that she was overheated and had pneumonia … I mean seriously, we’re running against a Clinton and we are going to challenge someone’s veracity?”
