CNN Anchor Disproves Trump Surrogate's Clinton Health Conspiracy Theory ... With His Own Words
Brianna Keilar: “You Yourself Just Said That She Has All These Fundraisers. That's Not Like Lying In A Lawn Chair”
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From the August 22 edition of CNN's The Situation Room:
BRIANNA KEILAR (HOST): And we're back now with Republican Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama. He is a key adviser to Donald Trump. I wanted to talk about something a little bit different now, Senator Sessions, and that is something that we have heard several Trump surrogates suggest recently, which is that Hillary Clinton, they are suggesting, is ill. You have Rudy Giuliani, you have Katrina Pierson, who is the spokeswoman for the campaign suggesting this. These are high-level surrogates. Do you think that Hillary Clinton's health is really a problem?
JEFF SESSIONS: Well, the questions are being raised. I don't know the details of it and I'm not going to attempt to give a medical opinion on it but I can say one thing for confident and surety, Donald Trump is a strong vibrant force. This is a leader who can move the ball. Hillary Clinton is low energy compared to him. It will be business as usual. Nothing significant will happen under her leadership over the next four years. Extending the Obama leadership. Donald Trump can turn this country around. He can break through the log jam in Washington. And get some things done that should have been done long ago.
KEILAR: When you say that questions are being raised though, aren't you sort of playing into this thing that, that really, I mean, as far as we can tell, because we have checked this out, bears no basis in fact. There is no indication that -- these are conspiracy theories, basically, that are being propagated and swirling around the internet. And you even have Rudy Giuliani saying, Google this, Google that. And he's not pointing to anything that is real.
SESSIONS: All I can tell you is I'm not a doctor and I'm not diagnosing it. But she's not even doing press conferences. She's doing such a few events compared to Donald Trump. She is apparently taking more time off and resting and not working. We need a leader that's working 24 hours --
KEILAR: But you just, you just said she has dozens of fundraisers. I mean, you yourself just said that, that she has all of these fundraisers.
SESSIONS: Well she's got 21 fundraisers --
KEILAR: That's not like lying on a lawn chair.
SESSIONS: -- But she needs to be opening herself up to the American people. She should have gone to Louisiana, like Donald Trump did. He, I'm just saying, between now and November, it's going to become more and more clear that he is a person of stronger, decisive action. He wants to get something done. And he's committed to making change in Washington and she is part of the establishment and it will be business as usual.
Previously:
CNN Panel Debunks Trump Surrogates' “Conspiracy Theory” Surrounding Clinton’s Health
CNN's Stelter: Hannity’s Peddling Of Conspiracy Theories “Does A Disservice” To His Audience