A popular election-year jab, especially at the presidential level, is to question an opponent’s physical health, thus implying that he or she may die in office and is thus unfit to serve. It’s one of the many lobs Trump’s people have tossed at Clinton, especially after she collapsed at the 9/11 memorial in September. One Trump supporter told The Daily Show’s Jordan Klepper he was sure Clinton contracted AIDS from her husband, who probably contracted it from Magic Johnson. But when she took the debate stage later in the month, she was fine — it was Trump who sniffled numerous times throughout the night. Both candidates have released letters from their doctors ensuring good health, though the first of two letters written for Trump was comically bizarre and written under questionable circumstances. —KB
This article appears in Best of The Bay 2016.
