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Tue Sep 6, 2016, 08:34 PM Sep 2016

Lolol, projection! Gingrich has a coughing fit after hyping Hillary's cough

As he and Hannity mined Clinton’s coughs for health conspiracies, the former House Speaker had a coughing fit of his own.

“This coughing stuff, I hope Hillary’s alright," Newt Gingrich said. “It’s a little disturbing.”

Moments later, he had a coughing fit of his own.

The former House Speaker appeared Tuesday on conservative talk-radio star and fellow Trump booster Sean Hannity’s radio program, and the pair gave ample airtime to conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton’s health, citing video of her struggling with a “coughing attack” during a Labor Day rally in Ohio.

After listening to a montage of Clinton’s public coughing fits over the course of the campaign—a subject that has become grist for the conservative conspiracy-theory mill—Gingrich noted to Hannity that the Democratic nominee‘s coughs are “deeper” and “last much longer” than her husband Bill’s.

“It lasted for four minutes and 20 seconds this weekend,” Hannity said. “I think we need to know if she’s healthy,” he added before pivoting to the concussion she suffered several years ago.

Shortly thereafter, while praising Trump’s recent visit to Mexico, Gingrich began coughing...


read more/watch : http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/09/06/newt-gingrich-has-coughing-fit-while-touting-hillary-clinton-cough-story.html?via=twitter_page
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