{"id":250482,"date":"2026-07-07T03:21:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/everything-mitch-mcconnells-aides-have-said-about-his-health-amid-shocking-brain-dead-claims\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T03:21:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:21:51","slug":"everything-mitch-mcconnells-aides-have-said-about-his-health-amid-shocking-brain-dead-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/everything-mitch-mcconnells-aides-have-said-about-his-health-amid-shocking-brain-dead-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything Mitch McConnell\u2019s Aides Have Said About His Health Amid Shocking \u2018Brain Dead\u2019 Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption><span class=\"copyright\">Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"\/tags\/mitch-mcconnell\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Mitch McConnell<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s health has been a mystery for the past three weeks after the Republican senator from Kentucky was hospitalized for a medical emergency and now there are new claims spreading around. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Trump<\/strong> ally <strong>Laura Loomer<\/strong> took to X on Thursday (July 6) to claim that <strong>McConnell<\/strong> is &#8220;brain dead,&#8221; which she says a high level source close to the White House told her. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large caption_belowImage credit_onImage\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/mitch-mcconnell-brain-dead-claims2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"788\" height=\"528\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/mitch-mcconnell-brain-dead-claims2-788x528.jpg\" alt=\"Mitch McConnell being pushed out of an elevator in a wheelchair\" class=\"wp-image-2241919\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Loomer<\/strong>&#8216;s source claims that he&#8217;s being kept alive by a life support machine and the organ failure is accelerating. The source claims he&#8217;s &#8220;officially brain dead&#8221; and that his &#8220;wife <strong>Elaine Chao<\/strong> has fled the country to China.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Desiree Townsend<\/strong>, the reporter who originally broke the story of <strong>McConnell<\/strong>&#8216;s medical emergency, says that sources have been telling her the same thing &#8220;for days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"iframe-container\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I have heard the same thing from my sources for days. At this point, I am at the hospital for when they eventually decide to move cut him off of life support and move his body. His Capitol police detail is still here as of 3:39pm ET. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tSTetm51de\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/tSTetm51de<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Desir\u00e9e Townsend (@Cheering4Change) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Cheering4Change\/status\/2074216771830116772?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">July 6, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing has been confirmed as of this point and these claims are unverified. <strong>McConnell<\/strong>&#8216;s team has not spoken out in response to the allegations and they&#8217;ve barely spoken in the past few weeks. <\/p>\n<h3 id=\"h-what-has-mitch-mcconnell-s-team-said-about-his-health\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">What has Mitch McConnell&#8217;s team said about his health?<\/h3>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>McConnell<\/strong> reportedly was rushed to the hospital on June 14 after losing consciousness while at home in Washington, D.C. These details came to light weeks later when the 911 call emerged, but before then, nothing was really known about his health. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the time, <strong>McConnell<\/strong>&#8216;s team said, \u201cSenator McConnell was admitted to the hospital this morning. He is receiving excellent care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One week after being hospitalized, <strong>McConnell<\/strong>&#8216;s team spoke out again just to say that he wouldn&#8217;t be voting that week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>McConnell<\/strong>&#8216;s office last <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/Politics\/wireStory\/sen-mcconnell-continuing-recovery-details-scarce-after-lengthy-134527305\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released an update<\/a> on July 2, saying that the senator \u201ccontinues to improve\u201d and \u201dappreciates the outpouring of support he\u2019s receiving while he continues his recovery in the hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/07\/06\/everything-mitch-mcconnells-aides-have-said-about-his-health-amid-shocking-brain-dead-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Everything Mitch McConnell&#8217;s Aides Have Said About His Health Amid Shocking &#8216;Brain Dead&#8217; Claims<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Just Jared &#8211; Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/07\/06\/everything-mitch-mcconnells-aides-have-said-about-his-health-amid-shocking-brain-dead-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Mitch McConnell&#8216;s health has been a mystery for the past three weeks after the Republican senator from Kentucky was hospitalized for a medical emergency and now there are new claims spreading around. Trump ally Laura Loomer took to X on Thursday (July 6) to claim that McConnell is &#8220;brain dead,&#8221; which she says a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-250482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}