Hillary Clinton is ‘healthy, wealthy and fit to rule’

WASHINGTON

Hillary Clinton is healthy and “fit to serve” as US president, her doctor affirmed Friday, as the Democratic White House frontrunner also revealed details about her family’s substantial personal wealth.

Tax data released by Clinton’s campaign show she and husband Bill Clinton, the former president, paid a massive $57.5 million in taxes since 2007.

Clinton did not release income figures, but by extrapolating her annual combined tax rate of about 40 percent over the period — she stated their 2013 tax rate at 44.6 percent and 2014 at 45.8 percent, the highest rate — it is clear the Clintons took in well over $100 million in eight years.

Physician Lisa Bardack of Mount Kisco Medical Group in New York said Clinton, 67, was enjoying a healthy lifestyle and has fully recovered from the effects of a concussion suffered in 2012 — an incident which had prompted questions about her health.

“She is in excellent physical condition and fit to serve as president of the United States,” Bardack stated in a letter distributed by the Clinton team.

Her campaign said that by providing the data, Clinton became “the first presidential candidate in this election cycle” to release his or her health information.

It offered details of Clinton’s traumatic head injury in December 2012 when, according to the doctor, Clinton “suffered a stomach virus after travelling, became dehydrated, fainted, and sustained a concussion.”

Republican Jeb Bush released 33 years of tax returns in late June, showing he made $29 million since 2007.