Mitch McConnell said to be 'unconscious' when rushed to the hospital: report
Source: Raw Story
July 1, 2026 9:01AM ET
Sen. Mitch McConnell was "unconscious" at his Washington home when he was rushed to the hospital more than two weeks ago, according to EMS radio traffic circulating online, Punchbowl News reported.
Just before 9 a.m. on June 14, a dispatcher sent an Advanced Life Support ambulance to the home of the former Senate GOP leader, according to the audio, which was posted by journalist Desiree Townsend. The account has not been independently confirmed, and McConnell's office has not addressed it.
Later that day, McConnell's spokesperson said the 84-year-old Kentucky Republican was hospitalized and "receiving excellent care." A June 22 statement said he was "working closely with staff on Senate business and Kentucky matters as he continues his recovery," and a member of his team said June 30 that he was still recovering and working with staff.
His office has released no details on his condition or prognosis, and it is unclear whether he remains hospitalized. Senate Majority Leader John Thune has said he spoke with his predecessor, calling him still "dialed in" on Senate business. The chamber reconvenes July 13, by which point it will have been nearly a month since he was hospitalized.
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hookaleft
(1,450 posts)Maru Kitteh
(32,121 posts)but most assuredly working on it.
llmart
(17,784 posts)He's looked like a corpse for years.
Gaytano70
(1,310 posts)They are using the same drugs, whatever they may be (formaldehyde?) to keep shitstain upright.
Efilroft Sul
(4,498 posts)Gaytano70
(1,310 posts)Moscow Mitch is probably dead. Good.
karynnj
(61,256 posts)Ky changed its laws to require the Governor to pick one of a few possibilities recommended by the departing Senators party.
Obviously, dead Senators don't vote. The appointed one would
Jack from Charlotte
(2,373 posts)He's only mostly dead.
Skittles
(173,711 posts)decrepit old fuck
Botany
(78,330 posts)Link to tweet
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Btw when the offer came through for money for election integrity he blocked it.
wnylib
(26,893 posts)has always been aware of it. He doesn't give a damn.
drmeow
(6,045 posts)it has made him and the people he worships rich and destroyed that pesky "lettin' them n*****s vote" democracy he hates. He'd probably have "perpetrated a successful coup of the former democracy known as the United States of America" on his tombstone except he knows that would not be popular!
AZLD4Candidate
(7,101 posts)Torchlight
(7,285 posts)"...still dialed in on Senate business."
Bayard
(30,734 posts)groundloop
(14,015 posts)Ritabert
(2,859 posts)usonian
(27,295 posts)
Just waiting on a thunderstorm.
popsdenver
(2,849 posts)looks more alive than McConnell has in four decades..........
usonian
(27,295 posts)Shocking, isn't it?
purr-rat beauty
(1,694 posts)It's too bad these asses will not face justice and just continue to rot off the bone while they fuck us all over til their last breath...
Miguelito Loveless
(6,076 posts)they can come up with a plan.
chowder66
(12,729 posts)WestMichRad
(3,538 posts)In Kentucky, I think the legislature, not the governor or the people, choose a succeeding Senator a change the vile legislature made when Bashear (D) was elected governor. So the legislators are perhaps scrambling to find a consensus on McTurtles would-be successor.
FakeNoose
(43,171 posts)The Almighty may have other plans though ... we'll see.
McConnell tried to bully Gov. Beshear into agreeing that the "replacement" Senator would be guaranteed to be GOP. I don't think the Governor went along with that.
popsdenver
(2,849 posts)until after Trump has his 250 extravaganza and piss off Trump
Of course if his celebration starts looking like a failure, they may announce it to give a reason for it being a giant flop.
I was thinking, Forty minutes of fireworks at that professional level, would have to cost a fortune......just so he can say he had the biggest fireworks display ever in the U.S. ???????? and it was all of his doing??????
madinmaryland
(65,834 posts)H2O Man
(79,513 posts)Karasu
(2,368 posts)DrFunkenstein
(8,937 posts)But he's always been quite conscious of his malignance.
QueerDuck
(2,285 posts)twodogsbarking
(19,925 posts)Shame on me.
twodogsbarking
(19,925 posts)Shame on me again.
question everything
(52,671 posts)when he would not fill empty offices in the judiciary during Obama and then, of course, usher the appointments of Gorsuch and Barrett.
Chasstev365
(8,390 posts)FadedMullet
(1,110 posts)bucolic_frolic
(56,407 posts)wcmagumba
(7,057 posts)eringer
(562 posts)I want to see him suffer like he made us suffer with this Supreme Court and this president.
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keep_left
(3,250 posts)
reminds me of the bad old days of the Cold War and the USSR, particularly the way their heavy-handed propaganda system attempted to hide the deaths of their leaders (sometimes for weeks). By the 80s, this had become so commonplace that it was used as a plot point in the Cold War drama The Americans.
I guess my memory of those times might be one of the purported benefits of now being of a certain age. I worry that our own political system is now taking on some of the characteristics of the old Soviet gerontocracy.
BigmanPigman
(55,769 posts)This muther destroyed the country single-handedly. From the SCOTUS to the Senate to the presidency of tRump and he will not die since hatred keeps him alive. He is an evil entity and that evil energy never dies, it just changes form.
Drum
(10,819 posts)Nothing left but a shell.
Marcuse
(9,153 posts)
Eddie18
(86 posts)Any neighborhood he lived in will be burned to the ground.
He is going to rot in the cold, cold ground
They will play songs by the Turtles at his wake
So happy together in hell
Bengus81
(10,634 posts)until the ACA has been totally destroyed.
Martin Eden
(16,101 posts)NOT impeaching Trump after Jan 6.