Priebus: ‘I Don’t Know What To Believe’ About Clinton’s Health

In this photo taken June 19, 2015, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus speaks in Philadelphia. Priebus said Monday that he's not worried about Donald Trump eventually running for president as an ind... In this photo taken June 19, 2015, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus speaks in Philadelphia. Priebus said Monday that he's not worried about Donald Trump eventually running for president as an independent."I don't see that happening," Priebus said in a nationally broadcast interview. He added that it is universally felt in party circles that "if Hillary Clinton is going to get beat, she has to get beat by a Republican." (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) MORE LESS
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Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus on Monday questioned whether the Hillary Clinton campaign is being honest about Clinton’s health and her decision to leave a 9/11 memorial ceremony early on Sunday.

“I don’t know what’s going on actually. I don’t know what to believe as far as what they’re saying is the problem, because they don’t tell the truth from the beginning,” he said on Sean Hannity’s radio show, according to a clip highlighted by Buzzfeed News. “It is reasonable for people to not accept what they say because they say things that are lies so often. We don’t know what’s going on with Hillary Clinton.”

Priebus said that he hopes Clinton recovers, but said that “honesty again is what the issue is.”

“Here we have them spinning, spinning, and spinning all day on Sunday and then suddenly they come back and say, ‘Oh well, she was diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday,” Priebus said. “Look, it’s the lies, Sean. We don’t want anyone to be ill, but what we do expect is that you’d at least be honest.”

Since Clinton left the 9/11 event early on Sunday feeling ill and announced that she had been diagnosed with pneumonia, conservatives have pounced on the opportunity to discuss the Democratic nominee’s health.

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  1. “We don’t want anyone to be sick, but until she gets a complete treatment from Dr. Kevorkian, we just can’t know.”

  2. Reincey, you just need to believe that HRC is healthy enough to beat your clowndidate, soundly.

    Nothing more…

  3. Priebus said. "Look, it’s the lies, Sean.

    Ok. Lets…

  4. Hannity: If you vote for her, you and your family will get the same fatal and painful disease.

  5. “honesty again is what the issue is.”

    It sure is. So, exactly what was Trump’s medical condition that allowed this incredibly fit individual to avoid serving during the Vietnam war? How much money has Trump cheated his employees, contractors, and the public out of? How many times did Trump cheat on his first wife and how many married women did he sleep with (he bragged about that last one)? How many times has he contradicted himself on his positions, just over the last year? Where is all that “unbelievable” information Trump said the investigators he sent to Hawaii uncovered regarding president Obama’s birth certificate? I agree with Priebus. Honesty is the issue here. I wish the MSM would spend as much time calling out Trump as they do criticizing Secretary Clinton for her “perceived” dishonesty.

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