Frank Gaffney, the conservative activist who runs the Center for Security Policy, latched onto the Hillary Clinton health conspiracy theory today, alleging in an interview with Breitbart News that journalist Matt Lauer may go easy on Clinton at a candidates’ forum tonight because he knows “if she feels stressed she will begin to fall apart.”
“I think that he will almost certainly be bending over backwards to give her a hand,” Gaffney said. “You know, one of the things that is now becoming a subtext is does her health begin to impinge upon her performance in something like this, if she feels stressed will she begin to fall apart for whatever reason? And we don’t know the reason, but I think there’s a question there and I suspect if no other reason, that may contribute to Matt’s well, shall we say a lack of even-handedness.”
Gaffney and the program’s host, Alex Marlow, also discussed reports that Lauer was once listed as a Clinton Global Initiative “member,” which Lauer and other journalists on the list say is not true.
