r/politics Jul 06 '26

No Paywall Laura Loomer, Reporter Claim Hospitalized Mitch McConnell 'Brain Dead'

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/07/06/laura-loomer-reporter-claim-hospitalized-mitch-mcconnell-is-brain-dead/
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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

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u/Vio_ Kansas Jul 06 '26

Time of Death - the moment his wife boarded that plane

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u/AccomplishedScale362 Jul 06 '26

She left for Beijing on June 17, 3 days after he was hospitalized.

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u/20_mile Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

She left for Beijing on June 17, 3 days after he was hospitalized.

https://www.wlky.com/article/elaine-chao-china-vice-president-mitch-mcconnell-kentucky/71823757

e: There's just no way Chao isn't a spy for China. Leaving for China three days after your supposed "husband" falls into a coma? That's not normal behavior for a loving spouse.

Also--not that this can ever be proven--I don't think Chao and McConnell ever consummated their marriage. I mean, they have no kids, and I've never seen a spark of chemistry between the two when they were present together.

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u/AnnaKendrickPerkins Jul 07 '26

She was sent away so there's no one to pull the plug and they can't call a special election.

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u/Ms_Apprehend Jul 07 '26

Now that makes sense.

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u/Wael3rd Jul 07 '26

That makes sense.

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u/Wael3rd Jul 07 '26

I'm sorry I just found it funny to add the same sentence again.

He can be dead or alive, I don't care about his pasty ass.

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u/Beneficial-Mine7741 Oregon Jul 07 '26

They don't have to pull the plug. In Kentucky, the anesthesiologist can say he is dead, and he is dead. Being on a ventilator to keep his body going while his brain is dead is still considered dead in Kentucky.

They are doing this because they don't want another Democrat in the Senate.

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u/Fullertonjr I voted Jul 07 '26

Kentucky requires a special election to occur, with the party of the deceased being the ones to submit the names for the ballot. They would want a special election asap, because otherwise there are not enough senate votes to pass any legislation.

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u/Beneficial-Mine7741 Oregon Jul 07 '26

Exactly, and if they can kick the can past August 3rd, they can keep that seat vacant until after the election.

Once again, the Republicans are outright denying an election. Dead people can't vote. The stupid part is that if Mitch's seat flipped Democrat, it's not like the republicans would lose power.

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u/AlwaysShittyKnsasCty Kansas Jul 07 '26

> […] kick the can […]

McConnell Freudian slip

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u/mindovermatter421 Jul 07 '26

I read something about Masse being g in the mix messing things up for Trump, but I didn’t dig further.

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u/laplongejr Europe Jul 07 '26

  The stupid part is that if Mitch's seat flipped Democrat, it's not like the republicans would lose power.

That part isn't stupid. They wouldn't do it they would lose power, and they would gain nothing by doing that anyway.   So better be consistent and never do it, than do ot once then learning they missed their election maths like during 2020.  

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u/RollingMeteors Jul 07 '26

Being on a ventilator to keep his body going while his brain is dead is still considered dead in Kentucky.

Sounds like more than a single person in Kentucky if I had to be real about it.

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u/AerondightWielder Jul 07 '26

Like Major Zero in Metal Gear Solid 4, I see. Neither truly alive nor truly dead.

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u/ApostropheD Jul 07 '26

You mean they don’t want Massie in the senate

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u/tdclark23 Indiana Jul 07 '26

A ventilator is "excellent" care.

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u/spyboy70 Jul 07 '26

Too bad he's not in Texas, ERCOT would take care of that

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u/CynicalEngineerHumor Jul 07 '26

...holy shit.

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 Jul 07 '26

She wouldn't have to leave to not pull the plug

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u/HealthyMaximum Australia Jul 07 '26

I can't believe we're in a reality where this is the most likely explanation.

Stupid fucking timeline.

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u/hihelloneighboroonie Jul 07 '26

So if a normie died, no kids, and their spouse absconded, what would the hospital do? Keep them on life support forever?

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u/AnnaKendrickPerkins Jul 07 '26

This isn't a normal person.

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u/hihelloneighboroonie Jul 07 '26

Do you think I'm not aware of that?

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u/tilclocks Jul 07 '26

So brain dead patients can only live for so long on life support before the body is basically dead. After a few weeks of brain death machines might keep some things alive but his body won't making all the nutrients and such needed to make hormones and keep his kidneys, heart, and liver functioning. It'll eventually die on its own.

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u/Day_Bow_Bow Jul 07 '26

Several years ago, the autopsy report of a totally brain-dead patient named TK who was kept on life support for nearly twenty years was published in the Journal of Child Neurology. He remains the individual kept on life support the longest after suffering total brain failure. Source

I knew you were wrong, but figured I'd go cite a source. An old fuck like Mitch won't last nearly that long, but it's not like being brain dead is a guaranteed body death in a few weeks. I'd say it's immoral to keep him alive, but that's just me.

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u/GrimResistance Michigan Jul 07 '26

It's been immoral to keep him alive since the 70s

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u/tilclocks Jul 07 '26

You also quoted a children's journal. Mitch ain't no spring chicken, and I'm not really wrong.

https://www.livescience.com/42301-brain-death-body-alive.html

Also, the journal you quoted shows a pathologist concluded that the original infection 20 years before caused the patient's brain to look the way that it did, which is impossible to tell without a sample to compare to. The brain could have died years or months before that (and when brain cells die, they liquefy and the tissue (mostly blood) calcifies. There wouldn't be a bag of mush in his brain for 20 years. There's just so much inaccurate information in that article, and I say this as someone who agrees diagnosing brain death can be hasty at times.

It's far more likely he was never brain dead (until maybe the most recent weeks before his death or his "heart attack") and just never regained "awareness" or the ability to interact. The reason for this is the your organs depend on signaling from the brain to continue to stay healthy and regenerate/grow. The brain is responsible for regulating those signals. No brain = no signals. No signals = your cells don't just regenerate because they have oxygen circulating and a pump moving air in and out (with fluids being drained from kidneys). It's just not medically feasible unless the answer is the boy wasn't "totally brain dead".

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u/Day_Bow_Bow Jul 07 '26

That's fair. I appreciate your schooling me.

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u/tilclocks Jul 07 '26

You're not wrong that there are rare cases of people surviving years on life support, but in many of those cases I imagine the areas of the brain responsible for regulating immune and stress responses are still functioning and they're more "irreversibly comatose".

I just think in his case he's nothing more than brain dead at this point and isn't coming back. It's reprehensible that he's being kept "on" simply to cling to power and while it sounds like something he would most certainly orchestrate it's no way for any human being to live. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. I wouldn't wish it on Trump, and I hate that man.

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u/Carbonatite Colorado Jul 07 '26

Simply being a medically fragile 84 year old in the hospital for an extended period of time would do it for a lot of people that age. Even if he was recoverable when he arrived, spending a couple weeks in a fruitful zone for antibiotic resistant bacteria, on a slurry of powerful drugs where the side effects are basically "this will probably do some significant damage but the alternative is death", lying prone in a hospital bed 24/7...a lot of elderly people end up declining simply because of shit like elevated stroke risks or picking up a strain of MRSA. Simply spending that much time in an ICU is really tough on the body.

My grandma was basically in the hospital for a solid 2 years before she died and she never really bounced back. She went in healthy for her age, to get a hip replacement. Between picking up infections and muscle wasting and re-injuring her hip because of the muscle wasting, it was basically a slow decline and a miracle she made it into a rehab facility. She was only there for a couple months before she died. At that point she was exhausted and depressed about losing her apartment and independence and she just kinda gave up. Being that old is a risk factor in and of itself.

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u/Day_Bow_Bow Jul 07 '26

I am not sure why I was being pedantic. Brain death takes multiple forms, and non-breathing oxygen deficiency like with Mitch would kill cells all over his body.

And yeah I agree that modern medicine is capable of keeping bodies legally alive far past their best-by dates, so I figure that's the case here.

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u/Malnilion Jul 07 '26

Terri Schiavo is probably the best example I could point to. Absolutely ghoulish keeping her body alive as long as they did.

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u/vonsnootingham Jul 07 '26

They only need til August 3rd. Thats the cutoff point to run a special election.

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u/AnnaKendrickPerkins Jul 07 '26

They'll keep him legally alive as long as they need to.

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u/Carbonatite Colorado Jul 07 '26

There's some really gnarly news stories out there about what happens to patients when they're 100% brain dead and on vents for long periods. Some of them were from delusional Terry Schiavo's Parents-type situations where they refused to listen to doctors and their loved one ended up literally starting to decompose while still "alive". Some are just experiences from healthcare workers who worked the ICU during Covid. Either way it's a very gruesome fate and at some point it's genuinely inhumane.

Like I would put my dog to sleep before letting him suffer like that, let alone another person. Not that I feel any particular sympathy for McConnell, but if that's what's going on it's basically sanitized barbarity. A very undignified and pitiable fate.

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u/nacho17 Jul 07 '26

Incorrect - you can keep a brain dead body alive indefinitely.

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u/tilclocks Jul 07 '26

No. You can't.

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u/nacho17 Jul 10 '26

yes. you can.

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u/tilclocks Jul 10 '26

No, you can't. Eventually the brain's lack of hormone signaling causes organs to die off because toxins build up and because they depend on those signals to function properly. While you could theoretically put someone on bypass to keep their heart beating, dialysis to clean their blood, ventilator to help them breathe, feeds through an IV, antibiotics to control infections, and a catheter or drain to remove waste because they can't use the bathroom, you can't do that indefinitely because they'll eventually be outpaced by bacteria, fungus, or a virus, and die/decompose from the inside out. If that isn't happening, they're not brain dead, they're just comatose.

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u/nacho17 Jul 14 '26

You are incorrect.

Theoretically, with the right care (like you said, vent/peg/excellent nursing care), a body can be kept alive indefinitely. In the real world this care won’t happen.

also that’s not how hormones work.

you can absolutely keep a vegetable alive for years and years. Look up Terri Shiavo for a famous case, or visit your local LTAC for less famous ones.

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u/tilclocks Jul 14 '26

Or I could trust my personal experience and training. Just saying. Theoretically you can do a lot of things, like fly toward the sun. Realistically you won't get that close. And I'm hugely familiar with Terri Schiavo. And that's 100% how hormones work.

But looking over her brain scans, she was in a persistent vegetative state because the higher areas were damaged (cortical brain death) like you would see in a massive stroke. The area that would regulate her body functions was intact, so if she's unable to feed herself or sustain herself yes they're going to sustain her. And they did.

But if those areas are dead too, they can't sustain that indefinitely because the body would eventually start breaking itself down due to no longer receiving signals to sustain itself.

Her brainstem was functioning. Her higher areas were not. That was how they were able to justify removing feeding tubes and allowing her to pass. They weren't "keeping her alive indefinitely with life support" (ventilator, fluids, nutrition, heart bypass if needed) they were keeping her alive with sustenance.

The amount of tissue lost and where it's lost absolutely matters.

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u/nacho17 Jul 15 '26

I think you need to review the definition of “brain dead,” in the USA anyway.

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u/RollingMeteors Jul 07 '26

She was sent away so there's no one to pull the plug and they can't call a special election.

Everyone one in that building knows they can just pull the plug and blame The Reaper man....

¿What gives?/¿What's the hold up? /s

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u/UrToesRDelicious Jul 07 '26

That's not how Senate rules work.

Yes, I saw the same tweet on the front page earlier, but it doesn't check out.

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u/AnnaKendrickPerkins Jul 07 '26

Rules?

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u/UrToesRDelicious Jul 07 '26

A Senator remains a senator unless in the case of:

  • Death
  • Resignation
  • Expulsion by the Senate
  • Acceptance of an incompatible office

A senator's wife/power of attorney leaving the country has no bearing on any of that. McConnell could be brain dead for the remainder of his term and still hold the office of Senator unless the Senate votes to expel him.

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u/AnnaKendrickPerkins Jul 07 '26

Bro, re-read what I said. This isn't hard.

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u/UrToesRDelicious Jul 07 '26

You're acting like she would be forced to pull the plug if she didn't leave the country. She wouldn't, and her leaving still has no bearing on the fate of his Senate seat.

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u/laplongejr Europe Jul 07 '26

 A senator's wife/power of attorney leaving the country has no bearing on any of that.

So you don't think the ability to turn someone from "no recovery chance" to "death" doesn't change a process triggered by death?  

 McConnell could be brain dead for the remainder of his term  

Yes and her wife could prevent him being "merely" brain dead.  

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u/UrToesRDelicious Jul 07 '26

So you don't think the ability to turn someone from "no recovery chance" to "death" doesn't change a process triggered by death?  

If she pulled the plug then sure, but I don't know why we're acting like her leaving the country is some attempt to avoid doing that. She could very well stay here and avoid making the same decision

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u/pickle_sandwich Jul 07 '26

Have you been paying attention? No one cares about rules anymore.

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u/ChemicalRascal Jul 07 '26

Jeeesus. I can't imagine having all that political power and not being able to achieve the basics of having a happy, pleasant life.

Like, if you're going to be absurdly corrupt, channel that corruption into getting yourself a decent family situation.

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u/samxli Jul 07 '26

Being absurdly corrupt takes hard work and a level of sociopathy that makes family relationships impossible

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u/20_mile Jul 07 '26

not being able to achieve the basics of having a happy, pleasant life.

McConnell was also estranged from his three adult daughters from his previous marriage. There's hardly a stitch written about them (I mean, I guess that's probably appropriate), but rumor has it they are all Democrats.

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u/IndigoJoe64 Jul 07 '26

Is anyone surprised? Name one single redeeming quality about the guy.

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u/father_breakfast Jul 07 '26

hes moments away from making the world a better place

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u/dv10a Jul 07 '26

I'll drink to that.

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u/Skullcrimp Jul 07 '26

I don't think that redeems a lifetime of making the country* worse.

(*americans may think they are the world, but we don't have to humour them)

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u/chum-guzzling-shark Jul 07 '26

at least he was consistently brain dead his entire life

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u/Stegopossum Jul 07 '26

He made healthy real turtles more popular in comparison to his sick old carapace.

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u/Squestis Jul 07 '26

Not only that, but his first wife is a retired "feminist scholar" who was the director of a women's history collection at Smith College.

And if you look at who Mitch McConnell was before he ran for Senate, you'd see that he too was very moderate, sometimes even on the left. His earlier political views were more along the lines of one of those old school "blue blood" Republicans from the north.

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u/Aegongrey Jul 07 '26

I don’t think McConnell was into ladies very much

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u/SomeGalNamedAshley Jul 07 '26

At least Graham is that one notch up in honesty as a confirmed bachelor.

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u/scootscootshaboosh Jul 07 '26

If we don’t count the “ladybugs.”

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u/Proud_Growth_8818 Jul 07 '26

Nah, there's solid reporting from McConnell's time in the Army. Dude is 100% gay.

The amazing thing is his determination. He knew he needed to get married and have children to succeed in Kentucky politics. So he did.

What do you want badly enough to to get you to sleep with a member of the gender to which you're not attracted? I'm not sure I could do it.

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u/DaBingeGirl Illinois Jul 07 '26

Sadly, it's not all that uncommon. I know a couple people who married and had children for social/career reasons, my stepdad's ex being one of them. It really fucks up the spouse, who has to come to terms with being used for decades and denied a real marriage.

A few other people I know did it too because they wanted kids and live in socially conservative areas. I couldn't imagine doing that to someone, but social pressure can be very strong.

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u/Opcn Alaska Jul 07 '26

Are you sure you aren't confusing him with Lindsey Graham? He and his first wife grew apart politically but he's been married to this second one since his early 50's.

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u/ChumbawumbaFan01 Jul 07 '26

I confused him with Lindsay Graham when I saw his photo. He’s ghoulish.

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u/PopeFranzia Jul 07 '26

Big Gay Mitch is (was?) similarly closeted.

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u/GreenEyedTreeHugger Jul 07 '26

Disagree. He definitely has a power marriage.

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u/the_last_carfighter Jul 07 '26

Or democracy or the USA or....

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u/C0d3n4m3Duchess Pennsylvania Jul 07 '26

Bro, there are tons of us that are trying to go about it the right way and find the happy pleasant life elusive lol

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u/KaiserSaladSpinner Jul 07 '26

I don't think you care about a decent family situation if you're the kind of person that chases power like Mitch.

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u/parkinglotguy Jul 07 '26

The majority of politicians are not happy or pleasant.

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u/ALoudMeow Jul 07 '26

But if you’re the embodiment of Satan, it all makes sense why you don’t.

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u/Effective_Olive6153 Jul 07 '26

powerful people often have arranged marriages and they get all the "happiness" via mistresses and Epstein level parties. You don't need to feel sorry for them, they enjoy their lives quite a bit

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u/mmmpeg Pennsylvania Jul 07 '26

Well, he doesn’t fancy women, you see.

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u/AccomplishedScale362 Jul 07 '26

The Foremost Group has built deep ties with the Chinese government, and both James and Angela Chao have served on the board of a Chinese state shipbuilding company. James Chao has given millions in gifts to Chao and her husband, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and his re-election campaigns have received hundreds of thousands from Chao’s extended family. Chao has no official role with the Foremost Group, but the Times reported that she has used her “celebrity status” in China to promote the interests of the company. In one instance reported by the Times, Chao attended an event in August 2017 celebrating the signing of a deal between Foremost Group and a Japanese company; a Transportation Department “spokesman said she attended in a personal capacity and did not discuss agency business.”

https://americanoversight.org/elaine-chao-calendars-reveal-new-links-to-familys-company-including-private-photo-session/

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u/20_mile Jul 07 '26

How is this bullshit not a layup for Democrats to attack the right with?

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u/AccomplishedScale362 Jul 07 '26

McConnell is/was forever beholden to Trump. Any suggestion of ethics violations by him and Chao was promptly blocked by Trump. For instance, in early 2020, while everyone was distracted by the pandemic…

Trump just removed the IG investigating Elaine Chao. Chao’s husband, Mitch McConnell, already vetted the replacement.

There’s been so much corruption perpetrated by Republicans during Trump’s time as POTUS, yet no one has ever been held accountable.

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u/stasi_a Jul 07 '26

Never knew Watergate would become just a picnic

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u/entropicdrift Jul 07 '26

This has been the right's plan since Watergate, quite specifically

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u/RollingMeteors Jul 07 '26

There’s been so much corruption perpetrated by Republicans during Trump’s time as POTUS, yet no one has ever been held accountable.

Yet allowing the corruption and malice against the will of the people is somehow not a reddit ToS violation while cheering for the 'corruption to stop' is borderline ToS violation.

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u/Penguinase Jul 07 '26

it is but the right doesn't care tbh. trump talked to putin longer than he did to america on the 4th of july and they didn't give a poo.

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u/TypicalRecon Jul 07 '26

the guy took a "business trip" to the USSR in the 80s before promptly changing his political affiliation and taking out a New York Times full page article attacking NATO.... all in the 80s.

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u/GreenEyedTreeHugger Jul 07 '26

Trump didn’t change his affiliation until much later. He only started writing checks to GOP politicians at Bannons advice. That it was necessary before he announced a run for president.

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u/TypicalRecon Jul 07 '26

he registered as a republican in 87, the same year he got back from his trip. From what I can find he changed parties in late july after a short trip to the USSR starting on the 4th of July 1987.

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u/DillBagner Jul 07 '26

Caring more about what putin wants, specifically on July 4th, seems to be a republican theme.

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u/JohnSith Jul 07 '26

They literally dont care tbat Reump is a rapist and a pedophile.

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u/tryingisbetter Jul 07 '26

Truthfully, because they don't get airtime anymore. I, guarantee, that after all these mergers, they won't even allow democratic ads to even show, at least good ones.

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u/Bored_Amalgamation Ohio Jul 07 '26

because the right would never see those attack ads.

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u/NYArtFan1 Jul 07 '26

Because most Democrats still want to be bestest buddies with Republicans no matter how many times Republicans kick them in the face. Also, why we need progressives who don't hold those ludicrous delusions.

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u/stasi_a Jul 07 '26

Schumer has entered the chat sweaty gym

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u/Vuronov Florida Jul 07 '26

Because the right doesn’t care.

If it’s their side they do not care one bit.

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u/Number_One_Gurl Jul 07 '26

With all the other shit going on, can you even imagine this being a scandal for people who aren't politically involved? They probably don't even know who Mitch is.

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u/ViolaNguyen California Jul 07 '26

Probably because it sets a really nasty precedent to revive "yellow peril" witch hunts.

Especially when it's not like McConnell was every going to lose an election in his deep red state.

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u/GrumpySoth09 Jul 07 '26

Managed opposition. That gravy train works equally for both sides

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u/GreenEyedTreeHugger Jul 07 '26

Because moral trash prefers bigotry to equality and fairness.

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u/mikeinanaheim2 Jul 07 '26

You don't say!

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u/Veearrsix Jul 07 '26

Spy? Or handler?

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u/20_mile Jul 07 '26

Can you imagine what sort of documents she could have left their house with after McConnell had his stroke?

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u/diemunkiesdie I voted Jul 07 '26

She was a cabinet secretary under two presidents. She had access to plenty of documents on her own.

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u/20_mile Jul 07 '26

She had access to plenty of documents on her own.

DOT records are a bit different than sitting on the Senate committees for: Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry · Appropriations · Rules and Administration

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u/xqxcpa Jul 07 '26

I'm sure they're very important, but none of those committees sounds significantly more worthy of compromising than the DOT.

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u/20_mile Jul 07 '26

Appropriations

This is the money committee.

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u/GreenEyedTreeHugger Jul 07 '26

Three! I thought? Being in charge of the peace corp at one point too.

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u/dragonurtle Jul 07 '26

Why would she have loyalty to the US? To her husband, sure, but if he's gone, then yeah, time to go home unless she has the motivation to stay...but clearly no. 

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u/Allydarvel Jul 07 '26

There's just no way Chao isn't a spy for China

Biggest clue is that she was in Trump's cabinet

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u/quesapeeka Jul 07 '26

She was 40 when they got married. No kids isn't surprising.

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u/20_mile Jul 07 '26

No kids isn't surprising.

Plenty of older men have second, or even third families.

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u/coastkid2 Jul 07 '26

He was already dead/brain dead without hope for recovery when she left because nobody would leave their spouse if there was even a minuscule chance of recovery. You’d be right there if he came around. You’d also stay close in case he took a turn closer to death-nobody would let their spouse die alone. The last thing anyone would do is undertake a HUGE trip halfway across the world.

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u/SomeGalNamedAshley Jul 07 '26

You say spy, I say handler.

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u/Hillary4SupremeRuler Florida Jul 07 '26

Green MAGA leftists have been calling everyone racist And "bLuEaNoN" for even daring to suggest there's anything untoward about the situation.

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u/mikeinanaheim2 Jul 07 '26

It was/is purely a business transaction.

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u/PopeFranzia Jul 07 '26

Chao is the second beard he's had in his lifetime. I've also heard he was discharged from the military for what were considered at the time to be "inappropriate" acts with other males.

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u/20_mile Jul 07 '26

He does have three daughters from his first marriage though. They'll be briefly mentioned in his obituary.

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u/Howdoyouusecommas Jul 07 '26

Well she was 40 when they married and he was in his 50s. So not having kids isn't surprising.

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u/20_mile Jul 07 '26

So not having kids isn't surprising.

It wouldn't be surprising if they did have kids though, either.

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u/erasem Jul 07 '26

10000000%

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u/BrewTheBig1 Jul 07 '26

Granted, how many “sparks” have you seen from any husband in the GOP? JD Vance? Marco Rubio? Ted Cruz? Cant create sparks when all you have is a wet bag…

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u/Proud_Growth_8818 Jul 07 '26

Mitch is gay. It's one of the oldest told secrets in politics.

Or he was gay. I don't think he'll be doing much of anything any more. .

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u/almondbutter Jul 07 '26

Her family is one of the biggest shipping magnates in Chinese history. I wouldn't be surprised if he married her just for her to get citizenship.

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u/GreenEyedTreeHugger Jul 07 '26

She was head of department of transportation for three administrations. They are so flush with cash. Her family was rich when he met her. Most likely rooted in money money money.

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u/20_mile Jul 07 '26

She was head of department of transportation for three administrations

She was head of the DOT for the first Trump Administration, and Secretary of Labor for both of Bush's terms, 2001 - 2009.