Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) fell as he exited the Senate chamber on Wednesday, though he did not immediately appear injured and walked away under his own power.
McConnell, who stepped down as GOP leader in January, was assisted onto his feet by Sens. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) and Steve Daines (R-MT) and then walked to a Senate lunch. He had just cast a vote for Scott Turner to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development when he tripped.
The episode is the latest brush with injury for McConnell, who sustained a cut on his face and sprained his wrist in December at another Senate lunch.
In 2023, McConnell, 82, was hospitalized for a concussion and later had multiple freezing episodes in front of the cameras, apparently as a lingering symptom of the concussion.
People talk about Trump's ego and yes, of course he has a big ego.
But at the same time, you have these ancient men and women who just absolutely refuse to leave power because they are convinced the world cannot wheel 'round the sun without their assistance.
He's staying in partly because his advisors, who get rich from peddling his influence, urge him to stay in. They know they have no future in the new Republican Party. McConnell is their only, and last, meal ticket.
Same as with Biden and the Biden Crime Family.
I saw someone call for the destruction of McConnell's entire fundraising and lobbying apparatus. They didn't explain how this would work, but one idea comes to my mind: Let it be known that any corporation or PAC employing a McConnell staffer is persona non grata in the Trump administration and Trump will take action opposite to what their clients are paying them to lobby for.
That would fix their britches.
I don't know whether this is new or old.
Probably one of them "Cheapfakes" anyway.