Sen. Mitch McConnell, from the great state of Kentucky, may or may not be legally dead after having reportedly been found unconscious in his home in June after experiencing a heart attack.
In any case, it’s impossible to know for sure what the senator’s condition is exactly because he hasn’t been seen or heard from publicly for weeks on end, and Washington staffers have a well-documented recent history of lying about their principal’s health status as a political maneuver.
David Manney provided some updates on this story yesterday for PJ Media.
This is merely the latest in a long-running series of odd health episodes, many of which have been caught on camera.
Mitch: Faithful servant of the people and spring chicken, on his 2026 re-election bid pic.twitter.com/1rlfzhKXc1
— Ben Bartee (@BenBartee) July 7, 2026
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Aside from the Weekend at Bernie’s angle to the story, there’s also the curious case of McConnell’s Chinese wife, Elaine Chao, whose family enjoys long and enduring favor with the CCP, appearing in the Orient just three days after her husband was allegedly discovered unconscious at a family residence.
Via People's Daily Online, June 18 (emphasis added):
Chinese Vice President Han Zheng urged further efforts to strengthen China-U.S. relations when meeting with former U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao in Beijing on Wednesday.
Han noted that the heads of state of China and the United States have agreed on a new vision of a constructive China-U.S. relationship of strategic stability, providing important strategic guidance for future bilateral relations.
Stressing that China has always been committed to developing stable China-U.S. relations, Han said implementing the consensus reached by the two heads of state calls for joint actions from all sectors on both sides.
He urged efforts to further strengthen cooperation in economic and trade, among other fields, and deepen cultural, people-to-people and subnational exchanges, to shore up the support for the development of bilateral relations.
Chao said maintaining stable U.S.-China relations serves the interests of all parties*, and expressed the willingness to continue making efforts to promote practical cooperation and people-to-people exchanges between the United States and China.
Of course, we can all relate to the impulse. As I always admonish my wife: “Honey, if anything catastrophic should ever befall me, I want you to keep your meeting with Uncle Xi.”
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Chao, who served as Secretary of Labor and Secretary of Transportation, respectively, under two separate administrations, is cozily — as is her father — in bed with CCP leadership.
Via New York Times (emphasis added):
The family of Elaine Chao, the transportation secretary and wife of Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, has high-level political connections not only in the United States but also in China. That gives the family unusual status in the world’s two largest economies…
The Chaos, and by extension Mr. McConnell, prospered as the family’s shipping company developed deeper business ties in China…
James S.C. Chao, 91, Ms. Chao’s father, studied navigation at a university in Shanghai before fleeing the mainland ahead of the Communist takeover in 1949. His schoolmate for a time was Jiang Zemin, who would become China’s president…
As China was emerging from decades of turmoil in 1984, the Chao family took a stake in a state-owned Chinese manufacturer of marine electronic equipment, documents show. The company targeted sales to China’s military, among other sectors, and was closely affiliated with a ministry run by Mr. Jiang. After Mr. Jiang came to lead the Communist Party a few years later, Mr. Chao met with him at least six times, including in August 1989 in Beijing — inside the party’s secretive leadership compound.
Imagine that!
The lady whose family stands, almost uniquely, to benefit from the “giant sucking sound” that Ross Perot warned about vis-à-vis the neoliberal offshoring of American manufacturing power, got herself inserted into the cabinet of not one but two presidential administrations.
A serious country simply cannot allow foreign nationals, even spouses of senators — maybe especially spouses of senators — to serve in the highest echelons of executive leadership.
The CCP would certainly never allow such obvious national security risks.
Why does the United States government?
