Republicans Called Out for ‘Lies’ Over Missing Mitch McConnell

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty Mitch McConnell has not been seen in more than two months, and while some Republicans have claimed to have spoken to the 84-year-old senator, the people of Kentucky have been left in the dark.

Democrat Charles Booker, who is running to fill McConnell’s Senate seat, is not buying Republican claims that they’ve spoken to the senator since he was rushed to the hospital on June 14.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Whip John Barrasso, and conservative commentator Scott Jennings have all insisted they’ve had calls with McConnell, during which they’ve talked policy.

“In an age where every time we turn on the news, there’s lies, we’re in an age of politics where dishonesty is the norm, and the lack of transparency is to be expected,” Booker told the Daily Beast on Friday.

“It’s why a lot of people don’t trust politics, so no, I do not believe them.” “Mitch McConnell has been known to lie to our people here in Kentucky and the country throughout his career,” he added.

McConnell’s team has put out two photos since the senator disappeared.

While he is allegedly holding calls with GOP allies and working with staff, he has not called any news outlets or released any videos reassuring the people of Kentucky about his recovery.

“There’s a lot of deep, deep frustration.

Kentuckians, Democrats, Republicans, and Independents alike are offended at this point,” Booker said of what he’s hearing on the campaign trail.

“I’ve been very consistent in saying that this is not about attacking Mitch McConnell because he had a health emergency.

We know how serious that is, but it’s the secrecy.

It’s the dishonesty.

It’s the odd vagueness and the contradictions his team has presented that it was a mild fall with no real complications and then a mild case of pneumonia, which does not add up,” Booker said.

Booker said that Kentuckians are used to being “screwed over by Mitch McConnell, and this just feels like another way to punch us on the way out, and to tell Kentuckians that he doesn’t care about us.” McConnell is not running for reelection at the end of his six-year term, leaving the race for the seat open for the first time in more than 40 years since he first took office in January 1985.