Amid major backlash from the far-right social media, led by influencer Laura Loomer, claims circulated on social media Monday that Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell is purportedly “brain dead” and his staff is allegedly “hiding it.”
Despite a near-tight-lipped stance from the Senator’s office since his June 14 hospitalization, CNN’s Scott Jennings provided a breaking update on the Senator’s health.
Jennings said that he spoke to “friend,” the Senator for “just shy of 20 minutes.” The Senator told him that he is still hospital and recovering, Jennings said in a post on X Tuesday.
“I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky,” the CNN anchor wrote. “He’s still recovering in the hospital.
“We talked for just shy of 20 minutes … about IRAN, UKRAINE, the unfolding situation in MAINE, my visit to the TR Presidential Library, and even a little bit of Senate history. I told him we want to see him back at work as soon as possible.
This story is being updated.
