Hillary Clinton coughed her way through the primaries, hacked her way through the 2016 election and now is rasping her way through a 13-city book tour with Bill.
On Tuesday night, in the first of a series of speeches and Q&A’s dubbed “An Evening with the Clintons,” Hillary had a coughing fit at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario.
She coughed so much that at one point she looked out of breath. She drank some water, but continued coughing. And after a lengthy question from the evening’s moderator, Hillary looked to Bill, who fielded the question while she kept whooping away.
Hillary also had another coughing fit when the moderator asked her about Russian President Vladimir Putin allegedly colluding with President Trump during the presidential election.
Things didn’t go so great at the first night of their series, The Daily Wire reports.
As for the attendance of the event, the [Daily] Mail learned that the venue, which can hold 19,000 at full capacity, only saw about 3,300 of its seats filled, floor row seats going for $325, regular seats selling for $83, but StubHub offering seats for as low as $6.55 Canadian.
Even CNN felt compelled to note just how disappointing the turnout for the event was. “The event was also not sold out. Organizers cut the Scotiabank Arena in half and blocked off the upper level, but as the show got underway there were sections of seats unoccupied,” CNN reports.
The speaking tour, CNN notes, “comes at a tenuous time for the Clintons: Not only is their standing in the Democratic Party in question after neither was particularly prolific during the midterms, but the event comes amid a renewed focus on Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky, a moment in history that has gained more attention recently because of a multi-part series on the affair on A&E and other retrospectives.”
President Trump couldn’t help himself, retweeting a post to needle Hillary from a Twitter user named “VP FAN.”