DNC Chair: Claims That Clinton Was ‘Incapacitated’ Are ‘Ludicrous’

DNC Chairman Tom Perez speaks at a protest against Trump’s new Muslim travel ban in Lafayette Square outside the White House, Monday, March 6, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Tom Perez speaks at a protest against President Donald Trump's new travel ban order in Lafayette Square outside the White House, Monday, March 6, 2017, in Washington. (AP ... Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Tom Perez speaks at a protest against President Donald Trump's new travel ban order in Lafayette Square outside the White House, Monday, March 6, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) MORE LESS

Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairman Tom Perez on Sunday said charges that Hillary Clinton was “incapacitated” by illness as the 2016 Democratic nominee are “ludicrous.”

“The charge that Hillary Clinton was somewhere incapacitated is quite frankly ludicrous,” Perez said on NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”

Donna Brazile, the former interim chair of the DNC, on Sunday said she “was under tremendous pressure after Secretary Clinton fainted to have a quote unquote plan B” to replace Clinton as the party’s nominee.

“I don’t know what Donna Brazile fell for. But all I know is under the rules and bylaws of the Democratic National Committee, she couldn’t have done this,” Perez said. “Hillary Clinton was anything but incapacitated. She was tireless. She was a work horse.”

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  1. Avatar for j.dave j.dave says:

    Fox got huge mileage out of inventing HRC “illnesses” before the election – not just from this incident.

    So nice of Ms. Brazile to feed new oxygen to this ridiculous distraction.

    Is it really this hard to let the other side be the one with the unforced errors? Especially now?

  2. Avatar for sanni sanni says:

    $$ selling books $$.

  3. I don’t read POLITICO, but was this claim also from their piece on HRC creating a cancer in the DNC? Are they trying to scratch Rich Lowry’s back a little?

  4. Hate to be so petty, but Tom Perez would be a whole lot easier to take seriously if he didn’t look so much like John Waters. I know, things can’t always be Devine.

  5. I take John Waters very seriously.

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