Mitch McConnell health update: Top Trump-ally claims staff ‘using’ Senator ‘to cling to power’; ‘it’s cruel’
GOP Senator Mitch McConnell has been missing from public life after a June 14 health incident. At a time when the US is negotiating a peace deal with Iran, McConnell, the US Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense chair, is away from the developments. US Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense Chair Senator Mitch McConnell at Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on May 19. (REUTERS) While health concerns have existed after the June 14 incident, it only escalated on Wednesday after an EMS call from the Senator’s residence on June 14 surfaced on social media. The same morning McConnell was hospitalized, the EMS call details that a person at McConnell’s residence was experiencing cardiac arrest and had to be administered CPR while unconscious. NBC News verified the audio and that it happened at McConnell’s residence. However, there is no confirmation that the individual who was attended to by the EMS team was the 84-year-old Alabama Senator. His office has been tight-lipped about the hospitalization, releasing no details about why the Senator was hospitalized and what his current …
