I completely agree with you, DG.
Hell, Hitlery couldn't navigate even one step up to a platform without someone holding her under one of her arms - when she was excited to screech in front of the two or three of her acolytes who actually attended her campaign stops. Most probably, Podesta made that appearance in her stead because, after draining a fifth of Jack Daniels, she was having a mental, emotional breakdown.

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence