The press has expressed frustration over Hillary Clinton's failure to make public the fact that she was suffering from pneumonia this weekend, and now the chief strategist for Barack Obama's presidential campaigns, David Axelrod, has piled onto the criticism:
"It ... shows what happens when the Clinton campaign fails to treat those reporters as a true protective pool, which would travel in the same Secret Service protected-motorcade to every place the candidate goes," Washington Post reporter Anne Gearan, who chairs the Clinton campaign press pool, told CNNMoney. "The pool was left behind when she abruptly left the memorial, and was not kept apprised of what was happening in real time."
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While Donald Trump and his allies have repeatedly pushed conspiracy theories about Clinton's health, the Republican nominee has reportedly decided against using her illness as a talking point. Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway even agreed with Axelrod about the "unnecessary" controversy, retweeting him with the comment, "Whoa. Well said."
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