Trump Gives Blunt Response To Question On Mitch McConnell’s Health

President Donald Trump apparently has no more insight into Sen. Mitch McConnell’s condition than the rest of the country does.

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The silence has fed weeks of online speculation. Axios reported Wednesday that emergency crews responded to an unconscious person at McConnell’s address the same day he was admitted and performed CPR, though the dispatch call never named the senator as the patient.

Republican leaders have worked to quiet the rumors by pointing to recent phone conversations with McConnell. A spokeswoman for Sen. John Barrasso told CBS News on Wednesday that the Kentucky lawmaker “was fully engaged and is eager to get back to the Senate,” while CNN commentator Scott Jennings claimed to have spoken with McConnell on Tuesday.

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Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear pushed McConnell to break his silence in a letter sent Wednesday. “Over the last several weeks, Kentuckians have grown increasingly concerned about the current state of your health and wellbeing, and ability to hold office in the United States Senate,” Beshear wrote, according to NBC News.

McConnell has weathered a series of health scares in recent years, including a 2023 concussion, several on-camera freezes and an eight-day hospital stay in February for flu-like symptoms, WHAS11 reported.

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