kentucky state senator staff Mitch McConnell said last week that he was “continuing to recover” in hospital, while Senate recess, but his office did not disclose details about his condition during his weeks-long hospitalization or whether he would be at the Capitol when the Senate returns next week.
Due to the lack of latest news, outsiders are speculating social media, Unsubstantiated claims are circulating online.
Unsubstantiated claims circulating online
In the absence of official updates, right-wing activist Laura Loomer posted unsubstantiated claims on X, citing anonymous sources. “High-level sources close to the White House tell me ‘Mitch McConnell is officially brain dead. He’s not coming back,'” she wrote.
She added in a follow-up post, “Mitch McConnell is being kept ‘alive’ by life support machines, but my White House sources tell me McConnell has organ failure, and as I reported, sources tell me he has allegedly been declared a vegetative (brain dead) by doctors and the White House is told ‘McConnell is never coming back.'” Officially brain dead, organ failure is accelerating, life support machines are keeping him “alive,” but his brain is officially dead, and his wife @ElaineChao has fled the country to China. I wonder if she took any of his documents or briefings to China. “
Ht.com has not been able to independently verify these claims and there has been no official update.
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What happened to him?
A statement from McConnell’s office said McConnell was admitted to the hospital on June 14 and said only that he was “receiving quality care.” A statement a week later said he would not vote that week. On Thursday, a new statement said he “continues to improve” and is “grateful for the outpouring of support he has received as he continues to recover in hospital.” Associated Press.
according to daily beastMcConnell was found unconscious and emergency responders performed what appeared to be cardiac arrest at his home and performed CPR. washingtonJune 14, according to EMS dispatch audio reports.
His staff gave no update until June 22, saying only that he would not vote that week. Senate Majority Leader John Thune said on June 15 that he had not yet spoken to McConnell but claimed that he “obviously understands what is going on in the Senate” despite McConnell’s hospitalization.
Daughter deletes her account amid speculation
The senator’s eldest daughter, Porter McConnell, has deleted her once-famous X account as speculation about her father’s health grows, The Daily Beast reports.
Porter, 48, has publicly criticized her father’s conservative politics and republican party on the platform. She served as campaign director for the left-leaning advocacy group Take on Wall Street. She is one of McConnell’s three daughters from his first wife, Sherrill Redmon, to whom he was married from 1968 to 1980.
McConnell, 84, the longest-serving Senate leader in history, is stepping down and his final term will end in January.
