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Smacking down incendiary allegations that Karl Rove made about Hillary Clintons health, a spokesman for former secretary of State said Tuesday that Rove was lying and that the right has politicized Clintons health from the moment she was treated for a blood clot after a fall 17 months ago.

Rove, the former White House advisor to President George W. Bush, raised questions about Clintons health at a conference last week in Los Angeles. Thirty days in the hospital? Rove said at the conference, according to the New York Post, which first reported the comments late Monday night. And when she reappears, shes wearing glasses that are only for people who have traumatic brain injury? We need to know whats up with that.

Roves remarks grossly misstated the length of Clintons hospitalization, which was only several days at the end of 2012 after doctors discovered a blood clot behind her right ear that stemmed from a concussion.

The then-secretary of State suffered the concussion after fainting at her Washington home while weakened from a stomach virus. The clot was discovered during a follow-up exam for the concussion at New York Presbyterian Hospital.

The injury led Clinton to delay her testimony to Congress on the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on a diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, that left four Americans dead. Republicans are expected to try to to use the attacks in Benghazi as a central issue against Clinton if she runs for president in 2016.

Rove attempted to roll back his remarks Tuesday in an interview with Fox News -- but continued to raise Clintons age as an issue, calling her injury a serious health episode.

I didnt say she had brain damage, he told Fox, pushing back at the New York Posts headline. This was a serious deal. ... We dont know what the doctors said about what does she have to be concerned about. ... I mean, shes hidden a lot of this.

Noting that reporters raised questions about the health of 2008 GOP presidential nominee John McCain, Rove told Fox that this will be an issue in the 2016 race whether she likes it or not.

Every presidential candidate is asked for all of their health records. ... Look, shell be 69 by the time of the 2016 election. She will be 77 if she serves two terms.

Clinton has kept up a brisk schedule of public appearances since leaving the State Department, delivering speeches all over the country while writing her memoirs, which will be published on June 10.

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Hillary Clinton spokesman slams Karl Rove allegations about her health