It’s time for Hillary to open up to the press

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As one of the many victims of Hillary Clinton’s aversion to the media, I was not surprised by her campaign’s failure to reveal that she was diagnosed with pneumonia until two days later, and only after she was caught on tape nearly collapsing as she was trying to get into her vehicle.

The Democratic presidential candidate’s penchant for silence has long been an open secret among journalists, as much as her reluctance to give press conferences. She gave her first formal press conference in more than nine months on Sept. 8, and it lasted less than 20 minutes.

What’s much harder to understand is why the Clinton campaign has failed to convince her to open up and put an end to Donald Trump’s conspiracy theories. Amazingly, the Clinton camp has allowed Trump to portray himself as a champion of openness, when in fact he is much less transparent than Clinton (I’ll come back to this in a moment.)

Shortly after the belated disclosure of Clinton’s pneumonia, former Obama chief strategist David Axelrod tweeted, «Antibiotics can take care of pneumonia. What’s the cure for an unhealthy penchant for privacy that repeatedly creates unnecessary problems?» He couldn’t have said it better.

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