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Mitch McConnell’s Wife Fuels Fresh Mystery With One Detail

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A second proof-of-life photo intended to quell conspiracy theories about Sen. Mitch McConnell’s health has had the opposite effect. The second McConnell photo, of him smiling beside his wife, Elaine Chao, was shared Monday as part of a news release that claimed it was taken a day earlier. However, the Daily Beast’s editor-in-chief, Hugh Dougherty, says oddities with that photo have sent conspiracy theories into overdrive. “Here’s the whole thing that we’ve been talking about now for more than 40 days of McConnell,” he said on The Daily Beast Podcast , referring to the Kentucky senator’s seven-week absence since he loaded into the back of an ambulance on a stretcher from his Washington, D.C. home following a 911 call on June 14. Read more at The Daily Beast.

First report: Mitch McConnell’s Wife Elaine Chao Spotted Picking Up Bizarre Award — thedailybeast.com, 12d