Post by cjm on Oct 19, 2016 16:49:36 GMT
New Emails: Hillary Needs Podium, ‘Cannot Walk Around’
In 2009, Abedin said Clinton would object to speaking with crowd on both sides or without podium
by Edmund Kozak | Updated 18 Oct 2016 at 1:02 PM
Emails obtained by Citizens United through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and released on Tuesday suggest that walking around a stage may have been a challenging burden for Hillary Clinton as early as 2009.
In a 2009 email exchange between top Clinton aide Huma Abedin and Clinton Global Initiative employees Amitabh Desai and Ed Hughes, Abedin revealed that Clinton could not walk around the stage like her husband Bill Clinton and would need a podium for an upcoming address.
"Just want to make sure someone has coordinated with you on hrc speech set up," Abedin wrote. "She won't be able to give it in the round like [Bill Clinton] does walking around with microphone," she explained. "Are we able to set it up so shes speaking at a podium [sic]?"
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