Republican strategist Karl Rove suggested last week that Hillary Clinton suffers from brain damage, according to a new report. 
 
 The New York Post’s Page Six section reported Monday that Rove, appearing at a conference with former Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs and CBS correspondent Dan Raviv last Thursday, recently waded into the former secretary of state’s health issues. In 2012, Clinton — a top possible 2016 Democratic contender — suffered from a blood clot that temporarily prevented her from testifying about the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. According to the report, Rove said the Benghazi issue should continue to be pushed. 
 
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 “Thirty days in the hospital?” Rove said, according to the report. “And when she reappears, she’s wearing glasses that are only for people who have traumatic brain injury? We need to know what’s up with that.” 
 
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 After an initial trip to the hospital for medical tests, Clinton was later admitted for three days to a hospital in New York City. At the time, several Republicans questioned whether Clinton’s health problems were valid. On Monday, Democrats and others on Twitter were quick to slam Rove, and the Democratic National Committee blasted out criticism soon after. 
 
 Clinton, no stranger to scrutiny, tends to be viewed more favorably when she is perceived as being under unfair assault, causing the Democratic base to rally around her. Still, the comment is a way to inject into the bloodstream a topic that Republicans and even privately some Democrats have discussed quietly: whether the 66-year-old’s health is strong enough for a presidential campaign. 
 
 “Karl Rove has deceived the country for years, but there are no words for this level of lying,” said Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill. As for her health, he said, “She is 100 percent. Period.” 
 
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 Neither Gibbs nor Rove immediately responded to a request for comment. 
 
 Maggie Haberman contributed to this report. 

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 Karl Rove stunned a conference when he suggested Hillary Clinton may have brain damage. 
 
 Onstage with Robert Gibbs and CBS correspondent and “Spies Against Armageddon” co-author Dan Raviv, Rove said Republicans should keep the Benghazi issue alive. 
 
 He said if Clinton runs for president, voters must be told what happened when she suffered a fall in December 2012. 
 
 The official diagnosis was a blood clot. Rove told the conference near LA Thursday, “Thirty days in the hospital? And when she reappears, she’s wearing glasses that are only for people who have traumatic brain injury? We need to know what’s up with that.” 
 
 Rove repeated the claim a number of times to the audience. Clinton’s rep said, “Please assure Dr. Rove she’s 100 percent.” 
 
 Despite Rove’s claims, then-Secretary of State Clinton was discharged from New York Presbyterian Hospital after spending three days undergoing treatment for a potentially life-threatening blood clot. 
 
 
 
 She was seen walking out of the Manhattan hospital for another series of tests but returned to the hospital shortly thereafter. She needed more tests related to her condition, the AP reported, citing unnamed officials. 
 
 
 
 Clinton, weakened by a stomach virus, fell in her Washington, DC, home in December 2012 and sustained a concussion. Her doctors said a blood clot had formed behind her right ear in the space between her brain and skull. 
 
 A spokesperson for Clinton added, “Karl Rove has deceived the country for years, but there are no words for this level of lying.” 
 
 As for her health, “She is 100 percent. Period.”
– Karl Rove is busily stirring the 2016 pot, not-so-subtly suggesting last week that Hillary Clinton may have brain damage. At a conference near LA Thursday, Rove brought up the December 2012 fall, concussion, and subsequent blood clot that delayed Clinton from testifying about the Benghazi attack, Politico reports. Page Six, which originally reported the incident, notes that Rove made the point multiple times, and said that if Clinton runs for president, she must be honest with voters about her diagnosis. One representative quote: "Thirty days in the hospital? And when she reappears, she’s wearing glasses that are only for people who have traumatic brain injury? We need to know what’s up with that." Clinton's rep was firm in responding: "Karl Rove has deceived the country for years, but there are no words for this level of lying. [Clinton] is 100%. Period."