McConnell was loaded into ambulance on a stretcher, according to eyewitness and new video
A neighbor’s video shows responders loading the 84-year-old senator into an ambulance as his office releases few details about his condition.
- The U.S. Senate returns Monday for a four-week work period featuring defense legislation votes, though Republican Senator Mitch McConnell remains absent with undisclosed health problems since mid-June.
- Emergency dispatchers reported a 'cardiac arrest' and person 'unconscious' at a Washington, D.C. address on June 14; McConnell's office claims he is 'receiving excellent care' and continues to improve.
- Critics including Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear and Representative Marlin Stutzman, R-Indiana, questioned the lack of transparency, with Stutzman saying Republicans 'need to hold our own party accountable.'
- Senate Majority Leader John Thune and strategist Scott Jennings report recent phone conversations with McConnell, yet his absence complicates the Senate Appropriations Committee's narrow 15-14 majority before October 1.
- McConnell has struggled with freezing episodes and falls in recent years, with his current absence drawing comparisons to Representative Thomas Kean, a New Jersey Republican absent for nearly four months.
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New ambulance video adds to mystery surrounding McConnell’s hospitalization
The mystery surrounding Sen. Mitch McConnell's health took another turn Friday after CNN published exclusive video from the morning of his June 14 medical emergency, offering the first public glimpse of the longtime Kentucky Republican since his hospitalization. First responders were called to McConnell's Washington home for a report of an unconscious person in cardiac arrest. Dispatch audio did not identify the patient. New ambulance video The …
Reportedly 'Unconscious' Mitch McConnell Taken by Ambulance to Hospital Where He Remains Under Care
A video has emerged reportedly showing former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) lying on a stretcher in an ambulance after being wheeled from his home last month following a report of an “unconscious person.”
New Mitch McConnell Ambulance Video Adds to Health Mystery
New Mitch McConnell ambulance video adds to health mystery. The footage, which was shot by a neighbor, appears to show the Kentucky senator being loaded into an ambulance on a stretcher after EMS was called for a cardiac arrest.
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