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“Because they are ALL in on it together. That’s why,” Joy posted to her 571,000 X followers.
But Lee’s assessment contradicts earlier comments from Senate Majority Leader John Thune after McConnell was first hospitalized.
Thune said he had spoken to the 84-year-old and that he “sounded good.”
Popular conservative activist Laura Loomer claimed recently that sources told her that McConnell is in a “vegetative state,” dismissing Thune’s version of events.
“I was in South Dakota all week, and a Thune staffer told a source close to me and the White House that Mitch McConnell is in extreme organ failure,” Loomer posted.
Emergency dispatch audio indicating that an individual at McConnell’s Washington, D.C., residence suffered a reported “cardiac arrest” earlier this month has renewed questions about the former Senate Republican leader’s health and whether he will return to the Senate.
His office last week also said the 84-year-old senator “continues to improve, and is working closely with his staff on Kentucky and Senate matters while the Senate is out of session.”
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