Two calls from 'different agencies' suggest McConnell died: Kentucky governor

Sen. Mitch McConnell in Washington, D.C., June 11, 2025. (DoD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Alexander Kubitza/Flickr)

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) got two phone calls from different agencies suggesting that Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) had died, the New Republic relayed.

This week, Beshear spoke with veteran newswoman Katie Couric, revealing that at the start of the rumors of McConnell's hospitalization, federal agency sources were saying he was gone.

McConnell's office produced a photo last weekend as proof of life after the governor requested it amid rampant conspiracy theories on social media.

“It had been a month before anything had been put out, not even an official statement from Senator McConnell,” Beshear said. “In fact, I’d gotten two calls from different agencies — not state agencies — suggesting he’s passed.”

His statement that they were not state agencies implies they were federal agencies.

Beshear spoke in a press conference this week, saying that the photo was a "step in the right direction," but requested that McConnell provide something more comprehensive to silence the conspiracy theories.

"To me, this is pretty easy," he said. "Most everybody who's subscribed to your Substack, if they were in the hospital for a month, they'd have to call their boss. They'd have to explain what's going on, how they're feeling, what their prognosis is, and when they can get back to work. And if they have the capacity to get back to work. Well, Mitch McConnell's boss are the people of Kentucky."

He said that the state deserves honesty from its U.S. senator, and noted it took a month before McConnell would even put out the photo.

"So, this rampant speculation that was out there," the governor explained," and "it needed to end. People deserve to know what was going on."

Now, Baashear wants McConnell to tell his state when he'll get back to work.

There's a key deadline of Aug. 3, after which, if McConnell cannot perform his duties as senator, a special election would be called. After Aug. 3, the seat would simply remain abandoned until the new lawmaker is sworn in, sometime in January.

"So, I've encouraged publicly that, you know, call in to your Substack. Call into a cable news show. Both the left and right have been contributing to the noise," said Beshear.

McConnell haters on the right, like Laura Loomer, were posting on social media that she'd heard from a "high-level source in the White House" that McConnell had already passed away. Even after the photo was released, Loomer still maintains that the senator is "brain dead."

McConnell said in the statement that while he collapsed, he didn't break any bones or otherwise injure himself. Still, he's been sent to a rehab facility, where the elderly can navigate a supervised recovery with physical, occupational and speech therapy. So, McConnell's doctors signed off on some form of further aid.

Spouse Elaine Chao was spotted leaving a rehab center while wearing a trench coat in Washington D.C.'s 98-degree heat. She also had a mask covering her, despite being outside.

It sparked a whole new round of conspiracy theories.

“This is more evidence that McConnell’s health is so poor they are making people around him mask up," ranted Loomer on social media.

“Why wasn’t she wearing a mask in the photo McConnell’s staff released the other day? Just more evidence it was an AI photo or an older photo," she added.

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