Mitch McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao, has finally broken her silence after the 84-year-old Kentucky senator was hospitalized nearly a month ago. But, suffice it to say, her new statement hardly cleared things up.
News broke last month that 911 was called to Senator McConnell’s D.C. home on June 14th, where paramedics found an individual unconscious and performed CPR. The far-Right Republican lawmaker has remained in the hospital since, as his staff, family, and friends have remained staunchly cagey about his condition.
To make matters all the more muddy, photos from Chinese media began to circulate earlier this week, showing McConnell’s wife in China for a sit-down meeting with Chinese Vice President Han Zheng on June 17th, just three short days after her husband’s major medical emergency, where she allegedly discussed efforts to strengthen relations between China and the US — a move that only bolstered suspicions about the true state of McConnell’s health and the reasons behind the overall lack of transparency in this bizarre situation.