Scott Jennings, generally the one good guy on CNN has been mocked widely for his claim about speaking to Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes and bragged how great and alert he sounded… Trump on the other hand isn’t falling for that bullshit though and says he has no idea how the crypt keeper McConnell is doing, despite Jennings and some other Republican claims,
President Donald Trump apparently has no more insight into Sen. Mitch McConnell’s condition than the rest of the country does.
Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Wednesday, the president said he had not spoken with the Kentucky Republican since his recent hospitalization. “I have no idea how he’s doing,” Trump said, according to CNN’s Alayna Treene.
McConnell, 84, has not been seen or heard from publicly since he entered the hospital on June 14, and his office has declined to explain what sent him there, WHAS11 reported. The longest-serving senator in Kentucky history plans to leave Congress when his current term ends in January 2027.
His team has offered little beyond a short update released July 2. “The Senator continues to improve, and is working closely with his staff on Kentucky and Senate matters while the Senate is out of session,” the statemetn from his office read, according to NBC News.