Bill Clinton Spotted In Public With Portable Defibrillator

Former President Bill Clinton is again facing questions about his declining health after being spotted in the Hamptons this week with wife Hillary — and what appeared to be a portable defibrillator in tow.

Photographs published Thursday showed the Clintons boarding a private jet with a Propaq MD Air Medical Bag, a high-grade transport monitor and defibrillator used for patients at risk of cardiac arrest. Clinton, 79, wore a blue jacket and tan hat, while Hillary accompanied him in a black sweatshirt layered over blue pants. Security escorted the couple as staff carried the medical equipment.

The Daily Mail first reported the sighting, which the New York Post noted immediately “reignited concerns about the ex-president’s fragile condition, given his long history of heart trouble.”

Clinton’s health struggles are well documented. In 2004, just three years after leaving the White House, he underwent emergency quadruple bypass surgery to treat life-threatening arterial blockages. Doctors later said he narrowly avoided a massive heart attack.

The following year, he required surgery to repair a collapsed lung — a complication stemming from scar tissue left by the bypass. By 2010, Clinton was rushed again to a New York hospital with chest pains, where doctors inserted two stents into a clogged artery.

Clinton claimed afterward that a vegan diet and weight loss gave him a “second chance,” but hospitalizations continued. In 2021, he developed a urological infection that turned into sepsis, requiring IV antibiotics. Last Christmas Eve, he spent the night at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital with a fever before being discharged.

Adding to concerns, Clinton was filmed just two months ago stumbling on a New York sidewalk during a public appearance, grabbing a pole for support as his leg gave out.

The portable defibrillator sighting is especially alarming, since such devices are typically carried for patients considered high risk for sudden cardiac arrest. Clinton has never publicly acknowledged needing one.

Even as speculation mounts about his health, Clinton is also preparing for a fresh round of scrutiny tied to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. The House Oversight Committee has subpoenaed both Bill and Hillary Clinton to testify this fall about the government’s handling of the disgraced financier.

While neither has been accused of wrongdoing, Bill Clinton admitted in his 2024 memoir that he flew aboard Epstein’s private jet but insisted he was unaware of Epstein’s crimes.

“The bottom line is, even though it allowed me to visit the work of my foundation, traveling on Epstein’s plane was not worth the years of questioning afterward,” Clinton wrote. “I wish I had never met him.”

At 79, Clinton is now the third-oldest surviving president, behind 82-year-old Joe Biden and George W. Bush, who is slightly older than Clinton. With his frailty increasingly difficult to ignore, questions about the Clintons’ lingering influence on American politics are only growing louder.