Former President Bill Clinton Hospitalized With Fever, Spokesperson Says

Former President Bill Clinton speaks in Durham, N.C., on Oct. 17, 2024. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

Former President Bill Clinton was checked into a Washington hospital on Monday after developing a fever, said his aide in a statement.

“President Clinton was admitted to Georgetown University Medical Center this afternoon for testing and observation after developing a fever,” Angel Urena, Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, said in a statement on social platform X.

The aide said that Clinton, 78, “remains in good spirits and deeply appreciates the excellent care he is receiving.”

Urena did not provide any other health-related details about Clinton, including what may have caused the fever or if he has other symptoms other than the fever.

Separately, Urena told CNN in an exclusive interview Monday that the former president “is fine” and expects to be out of the hospital by Christmas Day, which is Wednesday.

In 2021, Clinton was hospitalized for a blood infection and was released after six days, his spokesperson said at the time. Years before that, in 2004, Clinton had quadruple-bypass heart surgery and also had two stents inserted to open an artery in 2010.

Earlier this year, the former president was on the campaign trail to support Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential bid.

He also spoke at the Democratic National Convention, held in Chicago in August. “I want to say this from the bottom of my heart,” Clinton said in his speech. “I have no idea how many more of these I’ll be able to come to.”

Following President Joe Biden’s decision to drop out of the presidential race, both Clinton and former first lady Hillary Clinton endorsed Harris, who ultimately lost her bid to President-elect Donald Trump.

Late last month, Clinton said he was not surprised by Trump’s victory.

“At least this time, there is no question that he actually won both the popular vote and the Electoral College,” Clinton said in an interview with MSNBC, adding that he believes the U.S. economy played a role in his win.

“There’s been a lot of change for people to digest,” Clinton said, “a lot of economic adversity and upheaval, a lot of political upheaval, a lot of social developments. And if you think about it, some of the votes that happened in the last election are people who are just exhausted by uncertainty and tired of carrying it around. And that always helps the right.”

Clinton also released a book in mid-November, “Citizen: My Life After the White House.”