THE CALLS SAID McCONNELL WAS DEAD: Beshear's Bombshell
Two agencies called Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear suggesting Senator Mitch McConnell had "passed" — while McConnell's office went nearly a month without a single statement. That is not a rumor. It is Beshear's own on-the-record account, given in an interview with Katie Couric and reported by Fox News. An 84-year-old sitting United States senator was hospitalized after a June 14 fall, his constituents heard nothing, speculation exploded, Senator Ron Johnson floated doubts about the hospital photo and walked them back within hours — and now the governor of Kentucky says he was told the senator…
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