Unconfirmed Reports: Mitch McConnell Brain Dead After Three Weeks In Hospital

GOP Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky suffered “cardiac arrest” three weeks ago and is still hospitalized.

But two independent journalists have reported that the 84-year-old senator — long in failing health, pushed around the Capitol in a wheelchair, and frequently befuddled like former President Joe Biden — is brain dead.

Quoting a “high level source close to the White House,” Laura Loomer reported McConnell’s lack of brain function yesterday. Desirée Townsend, who disclosed audio of the 911 call to McConnell’s townhouse on Capitol Hill, reported the same thing.

Apropos of McConnell’s age and 41 years on Capitol Hill, former GOP Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia recently discussed the advanced age of so many members of Congress.

“You’re not being represented,” she told a Reason podcast. “I’m just telling you — you’re not being represented.”

Paramedics Called

Paramedics rushed to McConnell’s home near the Senate Hart Office Building to answer “a report of an unconscious person who appeared to have suffered a ‘cardiac arrest,’” The Hill reported about the 911 call on June 14.

The octogenarian landed in the hospital and hasn’t been seen since.

Two days later, GOP Senate Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota told Fox News’ Brett Baier that McConnell was “very dialed in and indicated he’d be back soon.”

“McConnell’s staff said on June 22 that he was ‘working closely with staff on Senate business and Kentucky matters as he continues his recovery,’” The Hill reported.

Townsend disclosed the 911 audio on July 1. The audio “raises questions as to if Senator Mitch McConnell was conscious the day after hospitalization when he allegedly spoke to Leader Thune,” she wrote on X.

Brain Dead?

Whatever the truth of the claims from Thune and McConnell’s office, Loomer sallied forth with the report that McConnell is brain dead.

“High level source close to the White House tells me ‘Mitch McConnell is officially brain dead. He’s not coming back,’” she wrote yesterday at 3:13 p.m.

At almost 8:00, she elaborated:

Mitch McConnell is being kept “alive” by life support machines, but my White House source told me McConnell is in organ failure, and as I reported, source told me he has allegedly been declared a vegetable (brain dead) by doctors and the White House has been told “McConnell isn’t ever coming back.”

Officially brain dead, organ failure is accelerating, life support machine is keeping him “alive” but his brain is officially dead and his wife @ElaineChao has fled the country to China.

I wonder if she brought any of his documents or briefings with her to China.

Chao went to China on June 17, People magazine reported, to meet with Chinese Vice President Han Zheng.

“I have heard the same thing from my sources for days,” Townsend reported yesterday:

At this point, I am at the hospital for when they eventually decide to … cut him off of life support and move his body. His Capitol police detail is still here as of 3:39pm ET.

The Occupy Democrats X feed speculated that Chao has stayed in China to avoid having to take McConnell off life support.

A possible reason: Outgoing GOP Representative Thomas Massie, defeated in his primary election by the Israel Lobby, might win a special election to fill the vacant seat.

“In Kentucky, a special election to replace a Senator will NOT be called if it’s closer than 3 months till the next election, and that date is August 3rd,” the feed noted:

If a special election was called, Trump’s vocal critic Thomas Massie would certainly run and likely win — which would be a HUGE headache for Trump and his agenda. If he didn’t win, he would split the vote, allowing a Democrat like Charles Booker to fill the seat.

That’s why they’re trying to conceal his condition as long as possible.

Too Many Oldsters in Congress

McConnell’s lengthy hospitalization and possible death raise the question of how old is too old to serve in Congress.

GOP Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa is 92. Independent socialist Bernie Sanders of Vermont is 84. GOP Representative Hal Rogers of Kentucky is 87, as is Democratic Representative Maxine Waters of California.

Taylor Greene fumed about the problem to Reason’s Robby Soave.

“You wanna know why they want to die in office?” she asked:

I’ll tell you why. When they’ve been for 30 to 40 years, that literally becomes their life. It’s horrible. It’s a miserable existence. So imagine yourself being 80 years old, and your staff is your caretakers. They take you to the doctor. They drop and pick up your dry cleaning. They help you get your groceries.

Taylor Greene said staffers push the elderly legislators in wheelchairs “all over the Capitol” and to the House floor, where they vote for legislation after staffers tell them how to vote.

But aside from elected office being their lives, “they can’t let go of the praise,” she said:

You know what they love more than anything? “Oh, oh, let me hold the door for you, Mr. Congressman.… “Yes, your honor … it’s good to see you again, sir. Come on in.”

They are addicted to all of that. It’s why they never give it up.

Driven from office by 80-year-old President Trump, the former Republican wishes Americans could these “old, old” legislators “wheeled around by their 25-year-old staffer, to go in there and read the words that the other 20-year-olds wrote in their office and vote the way they’ve told them to vote” 

“You’re not being represented,” she said:

I’m just telling you — you’re not being represented.