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“If you look at the health claims against Clinton one by one, they don’t mean anything,” Adams told me. “Clinton’s coughing wouldn’t mean anything if (her health) hadn’t already been raised. You have to understand that people don’t use rational thought to make decisions. We rationalize after we make a decision. It’s all about making accusations and associating people with bad feelings.”

Trump raising Clinton’s health is an example of what Adams calls “linguistic kill shots.” We’ve seen how effective these can be. Just ask “Lil' Marco” or “Low Energy Jeb.”

“If you were trying to design the worst luck a candidate would ever have, it would be one already being dogged with health questions running to be commander in chief who has an episode on the site of the worst case of terrorism in our living memory,” Adams noted. “To be there at that time and that location … and literally have your knees buckle … forget about data, logic, facts. The visual is so strong. Seeing her buckle in association with 9/11 imagery makes it almost impossible for her to win.”

Perhaps a bigger problem for Clinton is that this incident feeds into the primary narrative about her: that she isn’t trustworthy and lacks transparency. She — like Trump — has yet to release her medical records, as both John McCain and Mitt Romney did. Moreover, her campaign took an hour-and-a-half to provide any information about her collapse. When they did speak, it was to offer shifting explanations, with the first iteration of the story including no mention of her pneumonia. This doesn’t exactly breed trust.

Had she not been captured on camera stumbling to her car, we likely never would have known she had suffered pneumonia. Which brings us to an obvious question for Hillary Clinton: Is there anything else we need to know?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/09/12/kirsten-powers-hillary-clinton-transparency-hiding-column/90260672/

He's been on fire today:

#Hillary