Hillary Clinton '100 per cent' healthy after Karl Rove 'brain damage claim'
Clinton, 66 and the presumptive Democratic front-runner for the 2016 presidential race, was admitted to hospital in New York for three days to treat a concussion and blood clot she suffered in the fall, and which prevented her from testifying at the time about the deadly attack on the US mission in Benghazi, Libya.
Rove's comments could be seen as a bid to inject the question of Clinton's health and whether she is physically and mentally prepared for another gruelling presidential run into the conversation about 2016.
Clinton's team quickly rejected Rove's comments.
"Karl Rove has deceived the country for years, but there are no words for this level of lying," Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill said.
As to her health, "she is 100 per cent. Period."
Several Republicans had assailed Clinton for possibly exaggerating the seriousness of her condition in order to avoid testifying before Congress about the deadly September 11, 2012 attack.
In January 2013, she testified for seven hours about the crisis.
Clinton testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (AFP)
On Tuesday, Rove insisted he never said Clinton might have brain damage, as Page Six suggested.
"I never used that phrase," Rove told Fox News.
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Hillary Clinton '100 per cent' healthy after Karl Rove 'brain damage claim'