The rumour mill in Washington DC is hyperactive at the best of times. But an elderly senator’s lengthy absence from Congress has cranked it into frenzied overdrive.
For weeks, reporters have found it impossible to get clear answers about what happened to Mitch McConnell after an ambulance ferried him from his Capitol Hill home on June 14.
Internet conspiracists filled the information vacuum. “Mitch McConnell is officially brain dead,” MAGA influencer Laura Loomer told her followers, citing a White House source. “He’s not coming back.”
On July 12, McConnell’s staff put out a statement quoting him as saying he was recovering from a
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