A noted physician who helped uncover the NFL concussion crisis has made a bizarre claim Hillary Clinton's recent health scare might have been triggered by poison.
And Dr. Bennet Omalu goes so far as to point to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as suspects.
The Nigerian-born forensic pathologist, who is now a U.S. citizen, said on Twitter:
The far-fetched theory came shortly after Clinton, feeling faint, abruptly left a ceremony marking the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in New York City.
The Democratic presidential candidate was later revealed to have been diagnosed with pneumonia and recuperated at her home in Chappaqua.
Omalu was portrayed by Will Smith in the 2015 Hollywood drama, "Concussion," which recounts the doctor's breakthrough research that linked football tackles to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a brain disorder that can affect former grid NFL stars years later.
While Omalu's mentions of Trump and Putin will obviously be scoffed at, the Russian lawman has been slammed for a possible link to the poisoning of a former KGB operative.
Last January, Putin was implicated in a British inquiry in the 2006 poisoning death of Alexander Litvinenko in London, according to The Washington Post.
Litvinenko, who had defected to Britain and worked for British intelligence, unwittingly drank tea laced with a fatal dose of the radioactive nuclear isotope, polonium. On his deathbed, he said Putin was responsible.
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