SECRECY, LIES, WHATEVER: Clinton allies criticize campaign over health secrecy.

A lack of transparency about her health has turned what might have been a non-issue into a hugely problematic storyline for Hillary Clinton that could plague the Democratic presidential nominee into November, say allies and confidants.

One ally described the string of events that culminated in Clinton leaving a Sept. 11 memorial early as a “self-inflicted f—ing nightmare.”

Clinton’s campaign sought to deal with the fallout on Monday of damaging video that showed Clinton’s knees buckling and Secret Service agents helping her into a van. The campaign later revealed that the Democratic nominee was suffering from pneumonia.

David Axelrod, who served as a senior adviser to President Obama, chided Clinton and the campaign for unnecessarily withholding information from the public.

“Antibiotics can take care of pneumonia,” Axelrod wrote on Twitter. “What’s the cure for an unhealthy penchant for privacy that repeatedly creates unnecessary problems?”

Behind the scenes, the criticism was even more withering. And it comes at a time when the campaign’s trajectory appears to have stalled, with polls showing Republican Donald Trump gaining on Clinton.

The thing is, with the Clintons, no lie is to bizarre to be possible — even the Hillary Double rumors. I mean, you know they’d do it if they needed to, and thought it would work, right? Sometimes they use that to gaslight their opponents into believing crazy things that aren’t true. Other times — like this one, where Drudge is taking a deserved victory law — the opponents believe “crazy” things that turn out to be true.