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'Would rather die': Elaine Chao’s family friend exposes 'implausible' detail in new photo
McConnell’s “Proof of Life” Is Not Transparency. It’s Damage Control.The Photo Is the StoryThe reporting starts with a photo and ends with a familiar political tactic: concealment dressed up as reassurance. Mitch McConnell’s office has released two images of him and Elaine Chao since his hospitalization in mid-June, but no video and no real account of his condition. That vacuum has done what vacuums always do around powerful men in opaque institutions: it has produced speculation, distrust, and a scramble to read truth from scraps.Who Actually Holds the PowerThe central actor here is not the…
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