Former President Bill Clinton was spotted at the airport on his way out of New York’s ritzy Hamptons enclave with a defibrillator in his luggage.
Clinton, 79, donned a brown fedora and tropical shirt on Thursday flanked by Secret Service agents and airport personnel as he boarded a private plane. Clinton’s wife of 49 years, Trump nemesis and former secretary of State Hillary Clinton was also in tow.
The Daily Mail reported that the portable device appeared to be a Propaq MD Air Medical Bag, designed to monitor cardiac activity and deliver emergency shocks to the heart for people at high risk of cardiac arrest.
Clinton suffered a heart attack that required bypass surgery in 2004. He landed back in the hospital the following year to repair a collapsed lung that doctors attributed to his bypass surgery, the New York Post reported.
After having two stents inserted in subsequent years, Clinton was hospitalized again in 2021 for a urological infection that spread to his bloodstream, and he was treated for sepsis.
Over the summer, Clinton appeared to be in good spirits as he hit the media circuit to promote his new political thriller The First Gentleman, co-written with author James Patterson.
While Clinton’s medical issues were on display, President Donald Trump, 79, has gone to great lengths to cover up signs of his declining health as jockeying begins over his successor. Vice President JD Vance said he was ready to take over for his boss should the time come, though he claimed, “The president is in incredibly good health.”
Trump himself has begun to contemplate the afterlife.
“I want to try and get to heaven if possible,” Trump said last week. “I’m hearing I’m not doing well. I hear I’m really at the bottom of the totem pole.”
The MAGA figurehead was photographed on several occasions last week with a glob of makeup covering a plum-colored bruise on his hands.
Yet that hasn’t seemed to slow Trump’s attacks on his political enemies. During a trip to Scotland in July, Trump accused Clinton of visiting convicted pedophile Jefferey Epstein’s private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands as many as “28 times,” Newsweek reported
“And by the way, I never went to the island,” Trump said amid MAGA’s intensifying interest in Epstein’s alleged associates. Trump added, “And Bill Clinton went there, supposedly, 28 times.”
However, Maxwell poured cold water on those claims during her marathon interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche last month. According to a transcript of the interview, Maxwell said the 42nd president “never” went to Epstein’s island residence in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
“Absolutely never went,” she added.
Clinton also previously denied any association with the island in a 2019 statement.
