Mitch McConnell’s Home State Governor Reveals Health Bombshell – The governor suggested that conspiracies about the senator’s health had some serious legs.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconnells-home-state-governor-reveals-health-bombshell/
Mitch McConnell’s Home State Governor Reveals Health Bombshell – The governor suggested that conspiracies about the senator’s health had some serious legs.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconnells-home-state-governor-reveals-health-bombshell/
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The article:
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has revealed that he received calls “suggesting” that Sen. Mitch McConnell was actually dead during his weeks-long hospitalization.
Beshear, a Democrat, tells Katie Couric that he received two different calls from “agencies” that led him to believe that the 84-year-old McConnell was no longer alive—prompting him to demand answers for Kentuckians who were left in the dark about his weeks-long disappearance.
“It had been a month before anything had been put out, not even an official statement from Senator McConnell,” he said. “In fact, I’d gotten two calls from different agencies—not state agencies—suggesting he’s passed.”
Those calls came before McConnell’s team posted a photo of him in his hospital bed on Sunday, smiling next to his wife, Elaine Chao, and gripping the morning edition of The Washington Post’s sports section.
Chao, who has faced scrutiny over a trip to China during the Kentucky senator’s hospitalization, was spotted leaving the rehabilitation center where McConnell was recovering this week. The former transportation secretary was wearing a mask, dark sunglasses, and a long, seemingly heavy trench coat.
McConnell’s staff has declined to provide details about the rehabilitation facility or what it specializes in. It is in Washington, D.C., which was facing record-breaking heat at the time, making Chao’s bundled appearance all the more eyebrow-raising.
Dudes dead. Has been dead and will continue to remain dead.
Can the American political media – especially Daily Beast – forever dispense with the term “Bombshell”?
This is not a bombshell. Bombshells have impact. Discovery of the Watergate tapes was a bombshell. This? Won’t cost Republicans one vote, and it certainly won’t cost them an R Senate seat.
Clickbait headlines only work because enough people are foolish enough to click them and buy into this catnip garbage.
They are *so* close to having his lab-grown replacement ready. Just need a few more days.
*We fucking know, so do something about it.*
Why this is important, Gov Beshear can put a (Dem) replacement in if McConnell actually is dead. But you say that Kentucky’s legislature changed the law in 2024? It’s actually in the Kentucky constitution, so it would be a legal matter, not definitive.
Beshear needs to call an election, it’s what republicans would do. Stop fucking being nice.
Why didnt couric ask any follow up questions about these calls?
Bring out your dead!
[clang] Bring out…
[rewr!] …your dead!
[rewr!]
[clang]
Bring out your dead!
CUSTOMER: Here’s one.
CART MASTER: Nine pence.
DEAD PERSON: I’m not dead!
CART MASTER: What?
CUSTOMER: Nothing. Here’s your nine pence.
DEAD PERSON: I’m not dead!
CART MASTER: ‘Ere. He says he’s not dead!
CUSTOMER: Yes, he is.
DEAD PERSON: I’m not!
CART MASTER: He isn’t?
CUSTOMER: Well, he will be soon. He’s very ill.
DEAD PERSON: I’m getting better!
CUSTOMER: No, you’re not. You’ll be stone dead in a moment.
Weekend at Bernie’s is supposed to be a movie, not real life ffs 🤦
I for one I’m starting to think it was a “test” for when the big day comes.
That hospital photo looks exactly like a hostage proof-of-life picture
Is it possible for a journalist to investigate this? I mean, are there sources that can talk off the record? Are people working in the hospital where he’s at? I feel like this is beyond crazy at this point in 2026, like walk over there and check.
Bro you are the governor, it’s time to go in person to the hospital to check.
i wonder if he has a sister who can for some reason slide into his position
McConnell could just call him. It’s that simple.
So he’s either gone or vegetable.
The governor needs to do his job and call that election.
the “he’s dead” part isn’t the conspiracy
the “i spoke with mitch for 20 minutes and he’s recovering quickly” IS the conspiracy
8/4 he will have a sudden downturn we’ll hear about.
So, if it turns out he’s been dead or brain dead the whole time, will anything happen to all those perpetuating the lie?
Dead? I just talked to my old bud super senior senator Mitch McConnell on the phone for 20 min
Schrödinger’s McConnell has more legs to stand on than the senator himself.
Yall use the word bombshell too often. If everything’s a bombshell, nothings a bombshell.
Schroedinger‘s senator
Take depositions from all people involved. If after August 3rd he’s found to be incapacitated or dead then those who push this tale should be tried as appropriate.
You can tell there is no substance in the story because they used “bombshell” instead of actual information. I think there is a cover up but I dont need 50 stories everyday that dont tell me anything useful
Think about this… if it’s true, our own republican government knowingly falsified information and disseminated it amongst their constituents. They knowingly made false statements to countless entities who are forced to take X statements and other such communication as fact with this administration. It’s disgusting. If true, I hope that the people hold the entire party accountable for how we have run our political bodies and consider term limits and a refresher even of the entire congress and house… what we have now is not working as evidenced by *points everywhere*
I mean the longer he is incapacitated and not outright dead the more he is fucking over Trump and the GOP ironically.
If/when he dies, Beshear can’t appoint a replacement, but rather a special election, which, more likely than not, will be won by a Republican. That Republican will vote lockstep with Trump’s agenda.
So, perhaps it’s a good thing that we have the situation that we have. For at least it deprives the senate of one more Republican vote for now.
Anyone hiding his body needs to be locked up forever.
Schrödinger’s senator
Start the special edition and if Mitch is alive, he can run for office again. If not, well at least we’re doing our jobs, right Governor?
Call for the special election. GOP can put up or shut up.
How is this still going on a month later?
📢 MAYBE DO SOMETHING, ANDY 📢
This isn’t that hard. Send a state trooper to do a welfare check.
Legs like Jimothy
McConnell is no longer capable of continuing. He needs to get this special election done now! They are now ramping up the rhetoric on elections and the longer you wait, the harder this is going to be.
He died, was resuscitate, and now has sever brain damage from oxygen deprivation. That’s my theary
If he’s alive, there must be something really obviously wrong they don’t want to admit or show.
The governor has every right to make sure that one of their sitting Senators is both physically and mentally able to do the job he should demand a face to face meeting with mitch.
Ffs how is it a conspiracy? No actual video proof of life and blatantly coordinated responses from politicians?
In the day and age of instant communication you don’t get an excuse for this type of bullshit.
Still images only makes things pretty obvious
Old fucker is in a rehab because they’re about to put him in a nursing home and he will finally be done.
But not until after we pass the chance for special election.
Until then they’ll keep pretending he’s in a “rehab” for a “fall”
Aka he’s too old to go home but they can’t admit it yet
So **go to the hospital and find out**.
Come the fuck on. You could’ve resolved this long ago by simply **doing something** instead of “warning”, “claiming”, “revealing”, “suggesting”, or any other bullshit.
There are several conspiracy *theories*, but there *does* appear to be an actual [conspiracy](https://www.dictionary.com/browse/conspiracy) going on here to prevent the public from knowing what McConnell’s actual status is.
Get on it. Beshear! Stop fucking around!
Just call the special election already. Let the burden of proving Mitch is both alive and cognitive fall on Mitch and the GOP.