Revealed: Shocking Video Shows McConnell in Addled State Before Hospitalization

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Donald Trump was caught on camera this week holding a “cheat sheet” in the Oval Office, the same kind of note card Republicans once said was proof Joe Biden had dementia. Newly surfaced video shows Republican Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky sitting almost completely motionless for hours during a Senate vote session just days before he completely vanished from public view. DOJ lawyers are now arguing in official court filings that the Justice Department not being independent from the president is a net positive, all while claiming the prosecution of James Comey isn’t political retribution. And Trump’s intensely devoted young blonde staffer reportedly climbed into the trunk of an SUV just to stay close to the president’s motorcade.

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Trump Caught Using ‘Dementia Cheat Sheet’ in Oval Office

On Monday, while Trump was honoring a teen lifeguard from California who rescued a 10 year-old boy, Trump was seen clutching a note card. When zooming in on the photo, the card appeared to be a staff-prepared “cheat sheet” with photos of the two guests and instructions on what to say to them.

Progressive commentator David Pakman highlighted the card on his podcast, and wondered out loud why the president can’t even remember the names of two people.

This matters because for years, conservative media figures treated Joe Biden’s use of note cards during Oval Office meetings as a national emergency. Fox News circled the photos in red while random doctors who’d never examined Biden a day in their lives diagnosed Biden with advanced dementia from 3,000 miles away.

Pakman pointed out that according to recent polls, some 60 percent of Americans don’t think Trump has the mental sharpness to be president. The fact that an 80 year-old president with a habit of falling asleep in public needs a laminated card to remember who he’s meeting with should be a huge story, but apparently it’s nothing to the same outlets that threw a fit when Biden did it.

The progressive podcaster then noted that the hypocrisy over the note cards was jusy the latest example. Fox also minimizes high gas prices despite hyping them during the Biden administration. The same can be said for Barack Obama and Donald Trump’s use of a Teleprompter, and the silence over Trump’s constant golfing despite them crowing nonstop about Obama’s occasional golf games.

According to Pakman, Republicans never actually believed in the rules they set for other people, nor do they actually care about fitness for office. At the end of the day, it’s all about whatever the guy in the red hat says.

New Video Shows Mitch McConnell Was Almost Motionless Before Hospitalization

New video just surfaced from June 4th, ten days before 84 year-old Senator Mitch McConnell disappeared from public view entirely.

While McConnell’s Senate colleagues are seen talking and moving around him during a marathon voting session, C-SPAN’s cameras caught McConnell sitting almost completely still. A staffer appeared to be pushing him in a wheelchair for parts of the session. Between 11 PM and 4 AM, the Kentucky senator barely moved at all, and almost never spoke. No one approached him. And it remains unclear how much he understood what was happening around him.

Ten days later, an ambulance drove him from his home to a hospital. Leaked 911 audio referenced a cardiac arrest.

McConnell hasn’t been seen in public since then, recorded a video or even called into a news show. His office has released three statements attributed to him. Two photographs show him propped up in a hospital bed next to his wife, Elaine Chao, in nearly identical poses.

Kentucky’s two-term Democratic governor, Andy Beshear, says he’s still been able to reach McConnell. He’s repeatedly demanded the senator be more transparent about his health with his constituents, to no avail.

McConnell has served in the Senate since 1985 and is one of the longest-serving senators in American history. And right now, Senate Republicans are trying to ram Trump’s agenda with a narrow majority without one of their most reliable votes. And as of right now, there’s still no clear answer about whether McConnell is even able to cast one.

DOJ Lawyers Argue Not Being Independent from Trump Is a Good Thing

In a Tuesday court filing this week, federal prosecutors made an argument that should be much bigger news than it is. They wrote that Donald Trump directing the Department of Justice (DOJ) to carry out “core Executive functions” is “a feature, not a bug” of the constitutional system. They then insisted that the very idea of an independent DOJ that the president doesn’t control is “a myth.”

The most ironic part? That very same filing is in regard to the prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey, with prosecutors arguing that U.S. Attorney Ellis Boyle acted completely on his own, with no coercion from the White House.

Comey is fighting to have the case dismissed. His lawyers argued that the prosecution was a blatant act of political retribution, pointing to Trump’s own Truth Social post demanding that then-Attorney General Pam Bondi slap Comey with criminal charges. Trump also asked Secret Service agents to send him their notes after they questioned Comey.

All of this is about a fairly innocuous photo Comey posted seashells on the beach arranged to spell “86 47,” with “86” being a common restaurant term to say an item has been removed from the menu,” and “47” referring to Trump’s second presidency. The government has been trying to convince the court that the seashell photo constitutes a criminal threat against the president.

Comey says the case is the final chapter in a years-long campaign to punish him for refusing to pledge his personal loyalty to Trump while he served as FBI director in Trump’s first administration. Given what the DOJ itself just admitted in writing, it’s getting harder for them to argue that Comey is wrong.

Natalie Harp Rode in Trunk of SUV After Being Told There Was No Room in Trump’s Motorcade

35 year-old Natalie Harp is one of Trump’s closest aides, known as the “human printer” for her penchant of carrying around a portable printer to hand Trump flattering news articles and social media posts. Now, a new report shows just how slavishly devoted she is to the president.

CNN reported that in October of 2023 while en route to a court hearing in New York, there was no room for Harp in Trump’s motorcade, leading to a screaming match breaking out in the lobby of Trump Tower. When she was still unable to get a seat, Harp climbed into the trunk of an SUV so she could still be in the vicinity.

The news caused her estranged brother, Preston Harp, to burst out laughing when CNN’s Erin Burnett told him the story.

“That’s obsession,” Preston Harp said. “That’s like an unhealthy obsession with someone if you’re going to jump into the trunk of their car.”

Harp’s brother said their mother raised them with an emphasis on American exceptionalism, and that Trump represents everything she taught them to respect. Preston Harp said his estranged sister’s devotion likely stems from that upbringing.

One unnamed White House advisor told CNN that this is exactly why Trump likes having her around, because “she doesn’t second-guess, doesn’t question.”

The White House has doubled down on its defense of Harp this week after Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia said during a Sunday speech that Trump seems more interested in “traveling with Natalie” aboard the “flying palace” gifted to him by Qatar than he does in actually doing his job.

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