Bill Clinton, 79, Seen Carrying Medical Device While Departing the Hamptons

Former President Bill Clinton was recently photographed traveling through an airport in New York’s Hamptons area with what appeared to be a defibrillator packed in his luggage.

Clinton, 79, wore a brown fedora and a patterned tropical shirt as he prepared to board a private aircraft on Thursday. He was accompanied by his wife, Hillary Clinton, along with Secret Service agents and airport staff. Hillary, the former secretary of state and longtime political rival of Donald Trump, has been married to Clinton for nearly five decades.

According to the Daily Mail, the device Clinton was seen with resembled a Propaq MD Air Medical Bag, which is a portable system used to monitor heart activity and provide emergency shocks for individuals at risk of cardiac arrest. Clinton’s long history of heart problems is well documented. In 2004, he suffered a heart attack that required bypass surgery, and the following year doctors performed surgery to repair a collapsed lung, a complication stemming from that procedure, the New York Post reported.

Clinton has since undergone the placement of two stents and was admitted to the hospital again in 2021 for a urinary tract infection that advanced to sepsis.

Despite his medical setbacks, Clinton has remained active publicly. Earlier this summer, he embarked on a media tour to promote The First Gentleman, a political thriller he co-authored with writer James Patterson.

While Clinton’s health issues were plainly visible during his latest outing, Trump, also 79, has faced questions about his own condition. Unlike Clinton, the former president has made efforts to conceal any signs of physical decline. Vice President JD Vance recently insisted he is ready to assume office “should the time come,” but emphasized, “The president is in incredibly good health.”

Trump has even made remarks suggesting he is reflecting on his mortality.

 “I want to try and get to heaven if possible,” he said last week. “I’m hearing I’m not doing well. I hear I’m really at the bottom of the totem pole.”

Photos taken in recent days showed Trump with heavy makeup covering what appeared to be a large bruise on his hand. Even so, he has continued targeting political adversaries.

During a July trip to Scotland, Trump revived accusations against Clinton and claimed the former president traveled to Jeffrey Epstein’s private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands “28 times,” Newsweek reported.

“And by the way, I never went to the island,” Trump said. “And Bill Clinton went there, supposedly, 28 times.”

Those claims were later disputed by Ghislaine Maxwell. In a lengthy interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche last month, Maxwell said Clinton “never” visited Epstein’s residence on the island. “Absolutely never went,” she stated.

Clinton has also denied the allegation, issuing a statement in 2019 rejecting any connection to Epstein’s private island.

Bill Clinton, 79, Seen Carrying Medical Device While Departing the Hamptons