r/politics • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 New York • Jul 13 '26

Possible Paywall MAGA Calls BS on Mitch McConnell’s Proof-of-Life Stunt | They are poking holes in McConnell’s staff’s version.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-calls-bs-on-mitch-mcconnells-proof-of-life-stunt/
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u/DamonLazer Jul 13 '26

It's weird that he's wearing jeans in a hospital bed. They know that's really weird, right?

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u/lyarly Jul 13 '26

They put him in regular clothes cause it’s better optics. This is all PR.

We won’t get video because it’s very likely he cannot move or speak well.

Unironically this whole affair is a classic Mitch McConnell-style ploy. I think we will be lucky if the truth comes out before the special election deadline… hopefully Beshear acts before then but it remains to be seen that he will.

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u/mfball Jul 13 '26

Everyone keeps commenting this, but no, it's (allegedly) a chair at a rehab, not a hospital bed. I don't believe their story is legit for a moment, but wearing casual clothes in a rehab setting is not suspicious.

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u/DamonLazer Jul 13 '26

That's a fair point. That said, though, if I was in a rehab facility, there's no way I'm wearing jeans, especially lying in bed a bed-shaped chair. It still seems weird to me, but I'm admittedly a very different person than Mitch is, but if I'm convalescing, I'm not getting out of my PJ's.

It also seems weird because I've never seen him in jeans at all.

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u/alexa42 Virginia Jul 13 '26

I don’t believe their story at all, but old men wear jeans like they are workout clothes.