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This is picking up steam. Apparently, all secret service and local police are on standby and told she may fall any second.

During her speeches this week they have removed the stools after being called out for hiding her health.

The rumor is she is calling for the debates to be done while sitting down. They dont think she can stand for 15-30 minutes let alone 2+ hours.

Hillary Clinton has serious health problems. She needs stools and pillows at hand constantly. She wants to debate Trump sitting down. She may be wearing adult diapers as well as a catheter bag. She may have the onset of dementia. It appears she has recurring seizures. She needs long bathroom breaks. She needs a lot of rest.

Trump is getting 10x the people at his rallies that Hillary is getting at hers. Few like her. Most despise hereven progressives.

Therefore, shes probably making sure the polls are rigged. She will probably rig the election, too. After all, she likes rigging things in her favor. She had the DNC rig things in her favor and against Bernie. Lets see if she tries this tactic again. If the lying criminal traitor Hillary Clinton gets away with it, it may be time for a revolution.

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He did not apologize or speak to his own role in spreading the falsehood, which many people see as an attempt to undermine the legitimacy of America's first black president. Instead, Trump offered a curt admission tainted by yet another demonstrably false charge: that Hillary Clinton and her 2008 primary campaign "started" the racially charged smear.

Not exactly. The claim predates Trump's interest in promoting birtherism.

One of the first documented questions about Obama's provenance came in early 2007, when the right-wing Insight Magazine reported that researchers with ties to Clinton's campaign were trying to make hay over his schooling during the years he lived in Indonesia. The Clinton team denied this.

The rumor was that Obama attended a madrassa, or Muslim religious school. The connotation, at least at the time, would be that he had been educated in Islamist or radical anti-American ideology.

But even then, there was no suggestion Obama had been born outside the US.

There is no evidence that Clinton in 2007 or 2008 bolstered, supported or much less "started" the birther crusade.

And in recent years she has repeatedly blasted it, calling the movement "insidious" in a speech to supporters during an NAACP dinner in May. Last September, speaking to CNN's Don Lemon on the "Tom Joyner Morning Show," Clinton called the idea that she created the birther rumor "ludicrous."

"First of all," she added, "(the birther claims are) totally untrue. And secondly, you know, the President and I have never had any kind of confrontation like that."

Proponents of this allegation tend to point to a memo, written by Clinton pollster Mark Penn, and a conspiratorial email forwarded by a pair of campaign staffers in 2007.

He wrote: "I cannot imagine America electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and in his values."

However unsavory the sentiment, Penn, who is not working for Clinton's current campaign, did not at any point address Obama's birthplace.

Clinton never pursued Penn's notion as a line of attack. Later in the year, the campaign dismissed two staff members in Iowa who passed along an email that cast Obama as a Muslim agent bent on "destroying the US from the inside out."

CNN has attempted unsuccessfully to reach Asher for comment. He told his former employer, McClatchy, Friday that he met with Blumenthal in 2008, and that the newspaper chain dispatched a reporter to Kenya to investigate. Nothing came of it. He said there already had been stories published with the allegation before that meeting.

Some 2008 staffers told CNN that Blumenthal was not officially part of the Clinton campaign, and a CNN check of Federal Election Commission records shows no payment to Blumenthal from the campaign.

In 2007 and 2008, the birther conspiracy mostly took a backseat to another bogus tale -- one that suggested Obama, a Christian, was secretly a Muslim.

Clinton: "Of course not. I mean, that's, you know, there is no basis for that. You know, I take him on the basis of what he says. And, you know, there isn't any reason to doubt that."

Kroft: "And you said you'd take Senator Obama at his word that he's not a Muslim."

Clinton: "Right, right."

Kroft: "You don't believe that he's a Muslim or implying? Right?"

Clinton: "No. No. Why would I? No, there is nothing to base that on -- as far as I know."

Kroft: "It's just scurrilous --"

Clinton: "Look, I have been the target of so many ridiculous rumors that I have a great deal of sympathy for anybody who gets, you know, smeared with the kind of rumors that go on all the time."

But Clinton's use of five words -- "as far as I know" -- prompted outrage from many Obama supporters. Critics argued that they left the door open for unsavory innuendo.

Could Clinton have been more forceful in pushing back on the rumors? Yes.

Is there evidence that she or top campaign officials stoked the fire that Trump and assorted right wingers have openly and gleefully fueled in public for years? No.

Trump's decision to backtrack on the birther issue -- and pin it on Clinton -- is likely a campaign tactical move designed to improve his standing with moderate voters who might be susceptible to charges that Trump is racist.

The same survey found that 61% of Trump's own supporters did not subscribe to birther rumors, so the campaign likely considered that it had more to gain than to lose by dropping this as a wedge issue in his race against Clinton.

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Donald Trump again raises specter of violence against …

One day after dropping his long-standing claim that President Obama was not born in the United States, a claim that fueled several conspiracy theories, Donald Trump has ignited two more.

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Now he says his opponent, Hillary Clinton, was behind the so-called birther movement.

And for the second time in the presidential campaign, Trump is again raising the specter of violence against Clinton, this time joking about disarming her Secret Service agents.

CBS News correspondent Errol Barnett reports that after enjoying a rise in the polls and a week in which he stuck mostly to the script, it seems Trump is back to the flash-bang style of politics his supporters have come to enjoy.

But there was blowback on Saturday after the Republican nominee made another ad-libbed reference to violence and reignited controversy with a popular sitting president.

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At a rally in Miami Donald Trump said Hillary Clinton's bodyguards should drop their guns, then "let's see what happens." Trump has long claimed,...

I think that her bodyguards should drop all weapons, they should disarm, Trump said during a rally in Miami on Friday night.

Trump seemed to turn gun control into a threat against Clinton.

Take their guns away, Trump said. She doesnt want guns. Take their, lets see what happens to her.

This after a day spent walking back his refusal to admit that the nations first black president is an American-born citizen.

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President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period, Trump said Friday morning in Washington.

Trumps unwillingness a day earlier to make that same admission in a Washington Post interview gave new life to a conspiracy theory he has peddled since 2011.

Why doesnt he show his birth certificate? Trump said on The View.

You are not allowed to be a president if youre not born in this country, he told NBC News.

But Trump couldnt help but trade one fiction for a new legend.

Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy, Trump said Friday morning.

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Neither Clinton nor anyone on her 2008 campaign claimed then-Sen. Barack Obama was not born in the United States, though some Clinton supporters spread the idea through anonymous emails.

Its an issue even the president took a moment to address on Friday.

I was pretty confident about where I was born, Mr. Obama said in the Oval Office. I think most people were as well.

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Members of the Congressional Black Caucus said Trump has moved beyond dogwhistle politics to the howls of wolves.

We will not elect a chief bigot of the United States of America, said Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas.

Donald Trump is nothing more than a two-bit racial arsonist, who for decades has done nothing but fan the flames of bigotry and hatred, said Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-New York.

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And his opponent wasted no time in holding Trump accountable for his years as myth-maker.

Barack Obama was born in America, plain and simple, Clinton said at the Black Womens Agenda Symposium, and Donald Trump owes him and the American people an apology.

The media attention on these latest controversies has taken focus away from an investigation into Trumps foundation by the New York attorney general, but all of this is likely to serve as material for Clinton at the first presidential debate on Sept. 26.

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Hillary Clinton Returns to Campaign Trail Amid More Scrutiny …

After three days of resting at home, Hillary Clinton is set to return to the campaign trail for her first public appearance since her pneumonia diagnosis.

Today the Democratic presidential nominee who released additional medical information from her doctor Wednesday saying a recent physical was normal and she is in excellent mental condition will hold a campaign event in Greensboro, North Carolina, and then attend the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute dinner in Washington, D.C.

Clinton gave a thumbs up as she boarded her flight this afternoon. Before take-off, she also made a brief visit to the back of the plane to say hello to the press traveling with her.

"Welcome back to 'Stronger Together,'" she exclaimed, referring to her campaign plane. "I'm doing great, thank you so much," she replied when asked how she's feeling.

Clinton did not take questions, but told reporters she would hold a press avail following her Greensboro event. Chatting casually, she then said she was disappointed the TV show "The Good Wife" had ended, but that she was excited for another one of her favorites series, "Madame Secretary," to begin again soon.

Clintons return to the trail is sure to come with additional scrutiny and questions regarding her overall health.

Donald Trump, who has thus far remained quiet about his opponents recent diagnosis, has questioned Clintons health and stamina throughout the campaign. And his campaign is unlikely to let up.

Why in the world did Hillary Clinton lie to everyone and conceal such an important fact for two days, saying she was overheated and dehydrated and then, of course, hours and hours later after, unfortunately, her health became the biggest trending story of the day, not the 9/11 fallen, why wait all those hours? Trumps campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said during an interview on MSNBC this week.

If this is about transparency and medical records and health conditions, then why was she so furtive in the business of concealing here? Conway added.

Earlier this week Trump had stayed mum about Clinton's health, saying he hopes she recovers. But last night at a rally in Ohio, he said she was lying in bed and questioned her stamina, saying, I dont know folks. You think Hillary would be able to stand up here for an hour and do this?

On Sunday, Clinton, 68, left early from a 9/11 memorial ceremony in New York City, where she was seen struggling to walk as she was assisted by aides into her van.

Her campaign first released a statement saying she felt overheated at the outdoor event. But after video of the incident surfaced online, the campaign released another statement from her longtime doctor revealing that Clinton, who had been battling a cough the preceding week, was diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday.

A statement from her doctor released Wednesday said a CT scan revealed that Clinton had a noncontagious bacterial pneumonia and that she was instructed to take the antibiotic Levaquin for the next 10 days.

Following further advice from her doctor to rest and modify her schedule, Clinton canceled her plans to travel to the West Coast early this week, which included an appearance on The Ellen Show and a speech on the economy.

Clinton also phoned in to a fundraiser she had been scheduled to attend in San Francisco on Monday. Her husband, former President Bill Clinton, filled in for her at her Hollywood fundraisers on Tuesday and a campaign event in Las Vegas on Wednesday.

Clinton, according to spokesman Nick Merrill, spent all three days off the campaign trail at her home in Chappaqua, New York, where a steady stream of flowers were seen delivered to the house.

During this downtime, Clinton tweeted, emailed and texted her supporters to update that she was feeling fine and getting better. She also caught up on reading briefings, made calls and watched President Obamas Tuesday campaign event on TV, Merrill said.

In an attempt to reassure voters and to downplay questions over her health and transparency, Clintons campaign insisted recently that the presidential nominee has no other undisclosed condition. It also released an additional two-page statement from Clintons longtime doctor on Wednesday stating that she continues to remain healthy and fit to serve as president of the United States.

Clinton has played down her illness.

Asked during a phone interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper this week why she did not reveal her pneumonia diagnosis before Sunday, Clinton explained that she just didnt think it was going to be that big a deal.

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Hillary Clinton returns — and not a moment too soon …

The moment she took the stage, Clinton addressed the topic that has overwhelmed headlines since Sunday: Her health. She acknowledged to the Greensboro, North Carolina, crowd that being forced to stay at home following her pneumonia diagnosis at such a crucial moment in the election wasn't easy to stomach.

"As you may know, I recently had a cough that turned out to be pneumonia. I tried to power through it but even I had to admit that maybe a few days of rest would do me good," Clinton said, after walking out into a school gymnasium to James Brown's "I Got You (I Feel Good)." "I'm not great at taking it easy even under ordinary circumstances, but with just two months to go until Election Day, sitting at home was pretty much the last place I wanted to be."

After grudgingly following her doctor's orders to slow down and rest to recuperate from pneumonia -- and watching Donald Trump seize the spotlight and pull even or ahead in some key swing states such as Ohio -- the Democratic presidential nominee has signaled she is eager to make a feisty comeback at a crucial moment in the election.

One of the last times the public saw Clinton, she was being helped into a van by her security detail, her knees buckling and body slouching over as she lost her balance.

Clinton said she spent the time at home reflecting, as she mused that "the campaign trail doesn't really encourage reflection."

"It turns out, having a few days to myself was actually a gift," she said.

With less than two months until Election Day, polls have begun to tighten. In Clinton's absence, Trump and his surrogates were free to relentlessly attack the former secretary of state with relatively little pushback. Trump particularly zeroed in on Clinton's in artful comments from last Friday night, in which she described half of Trump's supporters as being in a "basket of deplorables."

In a more reflective speech than normal, Clinton admitted some of her shortcomings, including having "a tendency to over prepare" like "a lot of women."

"I sweat the details whether we are talking about the exact number of lead in the water in Flint or how many North Carolina kids are in early enrichment programs or the precise interest rate on your student loans, right down to the decimal."

And even though the Clinton campaign disclosed more information about her health on Wednesday, its initial decision to not immediately reveal the candidate's pneumonia diagnosis until late Sunday -- well after she left the September 11 memorial and briefly disappeared from reporters assigned to follow her -- has raised a slew of fresh criticism about the lack of transparency.

Clinton returned to the campaign trail with a rally in Greensboro and will follow up with a speech at a Congressional Hispanic Caucus gathering in Washington in the evening.

In Greensboro, Clinton spoke about the issue of "how we lift up our children and families," in remarks that marked Clinton's second in a series of "Stronger Together" speeches -- part of a broader effort to inject more of the candidate's personal story into the narrative.

"One upside to Hillary Clinton's break from the trail was having time to sharpen the final argument she will present to voters in these closing weeks," communications director Jennifer Palmieri said in a statement ahead of the speech.

But if Clinton is trying to change the subject away from her health, Trump may make that difficult. After largely staying away from commenting on Clinton's recent health episode, he took a swipe at his opponent's stamina at a rally in Canton, Ohio, Wednesday night.

"I don't know folks -- do you think Hillary Clinton would be able to stand up here for an hour? I don't know," Trump mused.

Clinton was originally scheduled to travel to the West Coast on Monday, where she planned to deliver a message aimed at millennial voters in California and Nevada. And her remarks in Los Angeles on Tuesday were meant to about a more inclusive economy.

All of those plans fell through when Clinton stumbled at the 9/11 memorial ceremony on Sunday, and it's not clear when the campaign will reschedule those events.

Clinton declined to address when her running mate Tim Kaine knew about her pneumonia diagnosis, as she faced questions about the nature of her partnership with her running mate on her first day back on the campaign trail.

In a news conference following her remarks, Clinton was directly asked when she informed Kaine that she had pneumonia. Her doctor made the diagnosis Friday, but the public did not find out about it until Sunday.

"My senior staff knew and information was provided to a number of people. And look -- this was an ailment that many people just power through and that's what I thought I would do as well," Clinton said, not addressing the specific Kaine question. "I didn't want to stop, I didn't want to quit campaigning, I certainly didn't want to miss the 9/11 memorial."

Another reporter followed up, asking how often Clinton speaks with Kaine and how she views her relationship and working partnership with her running mate.

Clinton said she communicated with Kaine as late as Wednesday night and referred to him as a "great partner" and great future vice president.

"We've communicated but I'm not going to go into our personal conversations and I feel very comfortable and confident about our relationship," Clinton added.

Kaine has also been asked about his knowledge of Clinton's diagnosis, and suggested in Dayton on Monday that he was in the dark until Sunday.

"I don't want to talk about her and my conversations, the content of them, except just to say that I reached out to her as soon as the incident happened on Sunday, as soon as I was aware of it," Kaine said.

When pressed to clarify if he didn't know about Clinton's diagnosis on Friday, Kaine responded: "I can just say, I'm not going to get into the content, but we talked yesterday after the incident happened."

Clinton is sending a message by choosing North Carolina a state her campaign believes is a must-win for Trump -- as her first stop back on the trail. Trump has a 5 point lead in Ohio and a 3 point cushion in Florida, according to a new CNN-ORC poll released Wednesday, meaning the Tar Heel State is increasingly important for Clinton as well.

Then-Sen. Barack Obama won North Carolina in 2008, while Republican nominee Mitt Romney won in 2012. Clinton's top aides believe North Carolina may be more solidly blue than typical bellwethers like Ohio because of the abundance of African-American and college-educated white voters.

North Carolina has a larger than average number of college-educated whites, buoyed by growth of college and post-college white voters in the Durham, Raleigh and Chapel Hill area.

Democratic pollster Geoff Garin said North Carolina is Clinton's "best chance" to win a state that Mitt Romney carried four years ago.

"Polls consistently have showed her holding a narrow plurality in the state, built on strong support among African-Americans and an ability to win over some better educated suburban whites in the Charlotte area and the Research Triangle who liked Romney but find Trump out of sync with their values," said Garin, who advises the pro-Clinton super PAC Priorities USA.

Thursday's visit is her fifth since she clinched the nomination on June, while Clinton's campaign and her aligned super PACs have spent close to $15 million advertising on TV in the state. And by the time she visits on Thursday, Clinton's Tar Heel State operation will have 33 organizing offices in the state.

Clinton has so far struggled break away from Trump in states like Nevada, New Hampshire and Ohio, which have smaller than average numbers of college educated white voters. While Trump has led with white voters, those with college degrees have rejected Trump in larger numbers than past elections.

While Obama lost college-educated white voters by 14 points, national polls in August found Clinton up by 10 points with the group.

But as polls tighten, so has Clinton's advantage with that group. CNN/ORC polls released Wednesday found that Trump actually leads by 9 points among the group in Ohio and 8 points in Florida.

Clinton knows she needs to be on the trail in order to seize back momentum she had earlier this summer. And she says it's been difficult to follow her doctor's orders.

"I was supposed to rest five days -- that's what they told me on Friday -- and I didn't follow that very wise advice," Clinton told CNN's Anderson Cooper Monday night. "So I just want to get this over and done with and get back on the trail as soon as possible."

CNN's Betsy Klein contributed to this report.

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