In the dead of night, Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville decided the public deserved an update on Mitch McConnell that McConnell’s own office still refuses to provide.
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Just before 1:30 a.m. Thursday, Tuberville appeared in an interview with independent journalist Nicholas Ballasy and offered the most concrete information anyone has gotten in weeks: the 84-year-old Kentucky Republican “is still in the hospital, he’s doing rehab.”
That is exponentially more than McConnell’s staff has managed to divulge.
The Senate’s longest-serving Republican has not appeared in a single video since he was hospitalized. His office has released two photographs — one on July 12 showing him upright in a hospital bed holding that day’s Washington Post, another on July 27 of him smiling in a chair beside his wife, Elaine Chao — accompanied by the same vague reassurances that he is “working hard to get back to my full schedule.”
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Tuberville was asked whether he found it surprising that McConnell’s team has still not released a video to calm the speculation. His silence spoke volumes, suggestion that he’s fed up just like everyone else.
Last month, Tuberville publicly urged McConnell’s office to put out “a little video,” noting that senators had received no meaningful information at their luncheon that day.
“That’s not my business; that’s leadership’s business,” he said then, “and we wish him well.” Three weeks later, the video still does not exist, and the well-wishes are starting to sound more like cover.
Tuberville warned that McConnell’s continued absence could delay votes on President Trump’s agenda, including the confirmation of Todd Blanche as attorney general.
“Some of them will be pushed to a later date,” he said. “You don’t put one up unless you got the votes.”
Longtime McConnell aide Terry Carmack has largely declined to answer questions, and office’s repeated vague statements have done little except heighten the sense that there’s a bigger problem going on behind the scenes.
Tuberville did not diagnose McConnell or claim special medical knowledge. He simply stated what he knows and left the rest of the questions where they belong, with the people who could answer them and choose not to.
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