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 “I do feel sometimes like this campaign has entered into an
alternative universe,” Clinton said on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live.
“I have to step into the alternative reality, answer questions
about am I alive, how much longer will I be alive.”
Clinton was for the first time responding to allegations made by
Trump and some of his backers that she is suffering health
problems that could be problematic in the White House should she
win the Nov. 8 election.
Both Clinton and Trump have released notes from doctors
declaring them physically fit for the presidency.
Kimmel asked Clinton to open a jar of pickles as a test of her
strength. She did so successfully.
“This has become one of their themes. Take my pulse while I’m
talking to you – make sure I’m alive,” Clinton said to Kimmel of
the health rumors.
Clinton said that sometimes Trump’s remarks about her – such as
a recent charge that President Barack Obama and Clinton
co-founded the Islamic State, which he later said was sarcasm –
go beyond personal attacks and become harmful to U.S. national
security.
“There’s enough evidence now that when Trump talks the way he
talks it actually helps the terrorists,” Clinton said. “I think
it’s crazy, but I think it’s also harmful.”
Clinton said she had begun preparing for the three presidential
debates scheduled in September and October.
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 “I want to take it seriously,” Clinton said. “But you’ve got
to be prepared for, like wacky stuff that comes at you and I am
drawing on my experience in elementary school.”
Clinton brushed off the possible release of an additional 14,900
emails that the FBI found when investigating her use of a
private email server as secretary of state.
"My emails are so boring," Clinton said. "What's a few more?"
The U.S. State Department has already reviewed some 30,068
emails from her 2009-2013 tenure and released most of them,
amounting to some 55,000 pages.
(Reporting by Amanda Becker; Editing by Michael Perry)
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