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Former Democratic National Committee interim chair Donna Brazile says she does not think Hillary Clinton would have made the insulting remark that half of Donald Trump’s\u00a0supporters belong in a “basket of deplorables”<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0had she been in better health.<\/p>\n In her new book,\u00a0“Hacks<\/a>,”<\/strong>\u00a0released Tuesday, Brazile wrote she saw Clinton before she made the Sept. 9, 2016, comment, and noted “Hillary did not look well,”\u00a0The Washington Free Beacon reported.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Brazile “noticed her face was puffy,” “her skin looked pale and papery,” and “that her eyes were glazed,”\u00a0the Free Beacon reported.<\/p>\n She approached Clinton about her health before the speech and saw that she was “wobbly on her feet” with a “rattled cough” \u2014 symptoms so concerning Brazile suggested medical attention, the Free Beacon reported.<\/p>\n “A short time later, I was seated in the audience at the Cipriani when [Clinton] strode up to the stage with her usual strong steps,” Brazile wrote, the Free Beacon reported. “Then she said something that, had she been in better health, I don’t think she would have said.”<\/p>\n “When she said ‘basket of deplorables’ I knew that no matter what she said in the rest of her remarks, this would be the comment that made it on to the evening news,” she wrote.<\/p>\n Two days later, Clinton had to leave a 9\/11 memorial ceremony because she was woozy; her diagnosis of pneumonia was later announced.<\/p>\n Brazile slammed Clinton’s campaign for lying about the illness, initially claiming Clinton was “overheated,” calling the explanation “stupid” and a “huge blunder.”<\/p>\n “The whole story stank, and the way the campaign handled it just made matters worse,\u201d she wrote, the Free Beacon reported.<\/p>\n