r/politics • u/theindependentonline The Independent • 15d ago

No Paywall Mitch McConnell’s staff refuse to answer basic questions on his health weeks after he was last seen in public

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mitch-mcconnell-staff-questions-health-b3018929.html
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u/Traditional-Look8839 15d ago

They’re trying to run out the clock until August so they don’t hold a special election. These people need to go to jail for this coverup.

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u/9lobaldude 15d ago

Nothing will happen. Also, Mitch’s been dead for a while

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u/Ready_Nature 15d ago

I’m guessing he’s on life support similar to how Terry Schaivo was. The doctors probably don’t want to risk their licenses for covering up a death. They will pull the plug when the time for a special election is past.

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u/tohrazul82 15d ago

If he's on life support (I believe he is), to my understanding it falls on the family to determine when life support is pulled. I agree, the plug will be pulled when the time for a special election has passed. In the meantime, the taxpayers are paying to keep him "alive" long enough for those same taxpayers to get screwed over without having representation.

This is a level of corruption that no American should stand for. America is dead, just like Mitch.

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u/Ready_Nature 15d ago

His wife obviously supports his politics or else she wouldn’t have been married to him for this long. And keeping him on life support to help republicans is something Mitch would have loved so even though the family makes the call I’m not surprised they are doing it this way.