The Loss of Lindsey Graham

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Cooner. Contrary.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Okay, a lot of political news now over the last
forty eight to seventy two hours. As many of you know,
Senator the Lake now Senator Lindsey Graham from South Carolina
passed away Saturday evening from a cardiac arrest.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
He had a heart attack.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
It has now scrambled politically things for the Republicans, along
with the fact that Mitch McConnell mysteriously was hospitalized for
weeks claiming he had a fall and now apparently is
in some rehabilitation hospital and apparently he will continue to
be in that hospital for weeks to come. So Republicans

(00:47):
now were out of forty three forty seven majority. They
are now gone from fifty three down to fifty one.
Although Lindsey Graham's replacement was announced yesterday, so soon they
will be back to full force. Mitch McConnell, as long
as he stays in a hospital, is not able to vote.

(01:09):
So McConnell continues to be basically out of action Mia,
But now all eyes are on Lindsey Graham's interim replacement.
Listen now to President Trump. This was after the news
that Lindsey Graham had suddenly passed away from a heart attack.

(01:33):
He was surprised. He was heartbroken. He called into CNN,
spoke to Jake Tapper and said, the news is absolutely devastating.
He relied on Lindsey Graham for foreign policy advice. He
was counting on Lindsey Graham to try to help pass
the Save Act. President Trump says that Lindsey was one

(01:56):
of his top aides or lieutenants in the Senate when
it was time to get legislation passed. He felt one
of the people that could deliver for him was the
late Senator Lindsey Graham. Roll cut, roll cut.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Five.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
Mike, Oh, it's devastating. I thought he was fine. He
called me last night. He just got back from Ukraine
and he had a great trip here telling me about
the trip. He was pushing very very hard. You probably
know he wanted to just do the same America Act
that he was talking about that he was full of
vim and vigor. He was tired, he said, I'm tired

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because it's a long trip. But other than that, he
was he was fine. And he called me. I guess
just moments before because he called me like at six
thirty or something, and the uh, the medical people got
there a little bit later, right right after that. What
a what a terrible loss it is. He's a great

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pole pit. He was a natural the very few of them.
He was a natural politician, get along with everybody.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
When he didn't. He was very tough.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
You know, he's tough cookie too, but he got a
get along with everybody.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
And so the news was taken hard, not just by
the President but by the Republican establishment. Senator John Thune,
the Senate Majority leader, who was extremely close to Lindsey Graham,
almost broke down and cried in tears upon the news
of Lindsey Graham's passing. Listen now to John Thune getting

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choked up on the Senate floor in tribute to Lindsey Graham.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Roll cut Ten, Mike.

Speaker 5 (03:46):
I will miss Lindsay's friendship, mister President, more than I
can say. We pray for his staff and for his family,
who he loved dearly and who loved him dearly in return.

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But I am comforted by the knowledge.

Speaker 6 (04:09):
That in the end he has just changed his address,
and that one day, mister President, we will laugh together again.

Speaker 7 (04:34):
It's a president heeled the floor.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
You can't see it, obviously, because it's an audio cut,
but if you saw the video of it, he's crying.
He's got tears in his eyes, and now the tears
are starting to stream down his cheek. So Senator John
Thune was devastated. Frankly, many Rhinos were devastated as well.
He was one of the leading Rhinos in the Senate.

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And so, as a tribute to Lindsey Graham, President Trump,
along with Senate Republicans, urged the Governor of South Carolina,
Henry McMaster, to appoint Lindsey Graham's sister. He was not married, obviously,
but she was very close to him. They had a

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very close relationship, and Darlene Graham Norden and McMaster agreed,
and so he appointed Darlene Graham to be the interim
replacement for Lindsey Graham to fill his vacant Senate seat.

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The Republicans are going to have a special primary in
August to get a new candidate to run against the
Democrat nominee for the US Senate in November, and that person,
whoever wins, will be sworn in in January. Up until January,
so basically the next six months, Darlene Graham nor Dunn

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is going to be the Senator from South Carolina. Listen
now to Governor McMaster at the press conference, saying, it's
his honor to ask Lindsey Graham's little sister to finish
the work begun by Lindsey Graham. Roll cut twelve, Mike.

Speaker 7 (06:30):
Today under the law, is my duty to an honor
to name someone to serve in the place of this
irresistible man, this irreplaceable man, this extraordinary man. For the
remainder of his term.

Speaker 8 (06:48):
Lindsey took care of his little sister in years long departed.
It's my honor to ask his little sister, Darlene Graham,
to finish his work for him now. And by the way, Darlena,
I don't know if I told you, but after we
spoke on the phone in the WII House of Sunday

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morning and you agreed to serve through tears earlier, I
had wondered what she would say, and I was humbled
by your quickness to see the duty that you had
to serve.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
So she agreed, obviously in honor of Lindsey Graham to
finish his term. And then she spoke on now being
the temporary replacement to fill the late Lindsey Graham's Senate seat,
and here is what she said, Roll cut thirteen.

Speaker 9 (07:47):
Mike, it is such a privilege to get to finish
some of his important work. And I promised to work
hard over the next several months to support the president
and carry forward the efforts of my brother on behalf
of the citizens of South Carolina and the United States.
I know Lindsay thought the world of his staff and colleagues,

(08:09):
and with their support, I feel confident. I think this
is what Lindsay would have wanted, and I'll plan to
honor him in this way.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
Now, look, I don't want to seem insensitive, because honestly,
that's the last thing I am. I believe me, I've
lost members of my family. It's very heartbreaking. She seems
to me like a very nice woman, very loyal and
loving sister. So this has nothing to do with Darlene Graham.
But as I said on X yesterday, and I'm sorry,

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I can only speak the truth if the way I
see it, if I'm not here to speak the truth
behind this microphone, and there's no point in me being here.
Am I the only one that's troubled by this? I'm
very sorry. Lindsay Graham passed away. I really am, and
I'm very sorry for his sister and the heartbreak I

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know she's feeling right now. But what qualifications, what experience
does she have to be a sitting US Senator for
the next six months when we have some of the
biggest issues in the history of our country facing us.

(09:26):
Does she even know the Constitution? Has she read the Constitution?
Does she understand the Constitution? Does she have what it
takes to be a senator? This is pure nepotism. I
mean this idea, Well, the best tribute for Lindsay would be,
you know, he loved his sister so much, you know,

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make her his temporary fill in. And I'm looking like,
but no, Lindsey Graham was elected by the voters and
the people of South Carolina. This is not about Lindsey
Graham anymore. With all doers, this seat doesn't belong to
Lindsey or to the Graham family. It belongs to the

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people and the voters of South Carolina. Now, I know
there's going to be a primary to settle this for
the you know who will be the nominee, and they'll
have an election in November and then someone else will
be uh, you know, will be put in, will be
sworn in in January of next year. But there are
many other peclearly qualified people, Okay, by the way, and

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many of you are making this point. On the text line,
you can text the cooner man seven zero four seven
zero seven zero four seven zero And as always, the
number to call if you want to be part of
the show six one seven two six x sixty eight
sixty eight is the number. You know, if John Thune
is tearing up the way he is on the Senate

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floor because he's just so devastated, so heartbroken by the
death of his dear friend Lindsey Graham, you know, you
could pay tribute to Lindsay by passing the Save Act.
You could blow up the filibuster and pass the Save
America Act, because apparently that was one of the things

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that Lindsey Graham was working on very hard, uh day,
you know, before he passed away from a heart attack.
So you know, I'm just saying, if Senator Thune, if
the Senate Majority leader feels that strongly about his love
for Lindsey and how much Lindsay meant to him, into
the chamber, into the Senate, into the country, and you know,

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the great patriot that he was apparently the irreplaceable man,
as he's now being called. By the way, everybody's replaceable. Okay, everybody,
I'm sorry, but you know, come on, let's let's all,
you know, calm down a little bit.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
Here.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
They're they're they're trying to deify Lindsey Graham. So nobody's
nobody's irreplaceable. Everybody ultimately is replaceable. I'm sorry, that's.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
Just a fact.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
But okay, you're telling me he's a a once in
a century senator. This is what you guys are all
telling me. Well, fine, in his honor past the Safe
America Act if want rename it the Lindsey Graham Act.
If that's what you want, I don't care. But somehow

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I know I don't think they're.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
Gonna do that.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
I just I don't know. I got this feeling. And
one of the reasons why is because a key vote
that they need is not even in the Senate Chamber.
He's in a hospital somewhere or in some rehabilitation center
we don't really quite know. And that is the former

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Senate Republican leader, Mitch the Squish McConnell. Now you want
to talk about conspiracy theories. I've never seen anything like
this in my entire life. So apparently for about a month,
four weeks, no one has heard or seen Mitch McConnell, Hey,

(13:19):
the uber rhino senator from Kentucky, and he's just absent.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
He's just not in the Senate. He's not doing his job.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
When you ask his office, for weeks and weeks and weeks,
they were fiercely protective of his secret of whatever his
secret location was. They would not tell anybody what had
happened to Mitch, what was wrong with Mitch. Was there
a problem with Mitch. They were covering it up. They

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were just keeping their lips sealed and refusing to divulge
any information whatsoever. It got to the point that there
was speculation and rumors in Washington that McConnell is dead,
that McConnell passed away.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
From a heart attack.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
That was the rumor, and so people began asking more
and more questions. Well, apparently now Mitch McConnell has somehow resurfaced.
He issued a statement with a photograph which is clearly staged.
You can clearly see that it's not a current photograph.

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It's an older photograph of him with his wife, Elaine Chow,
former Secretary of Labor under Bush, Transportation secretary under Trump.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
In his first term.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
I like that, Sandy. Did they photoshop it in a newspaper?
I agree with you? I agree with you.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know you're right.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
He's holding a newspaper apparently like he's reading or whatever.
And did they photoshop that to insert it into the picture. Yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah. Proof of life. In other words, that people
can see, oh he's alive, and look at that. Look
at that newspaper. It's current, it's current. And look, here's
what we know, all right, here is exactly what we know.

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Apparently McConnell fell unconscious in his house over a month ago.
CPR was called to his home. Okay, first responders were
called to his home. Apparently they administered CPR. However, according

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to Lindsey Graham, in his statement, backed by his wife,
he says he didn't have a heart attack, he didn't
have a stroke, he didn't fall badly. He says there
are no broken bones. He says there are no injuries
of any kind. He did not get a concussion. He

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just had a fall. That's it, just a fall, and
that he was temporarily unconscious, but they you know, he
got revived and he's now been at a hospital for
over nearly a month, and then he got a little
bit of mild pneumonia, this is what he says, and
so now he's going to be in a rehabilitation hospital

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or clinic for at least another two to three weeks.
So basically you're not going to see Mitch McConnell for
a while. And then when he says he's ready to return,
the Senate is going to go into an August recess,
so McConnell won't even be available or will have to

(16:43):
do his job until at least September, which gets us
almost in front of the midterm election. But there's something
wrong with his story. Nothing adds up. So uh six
one seven, two six, sixty eight, sixty eight if you
want to be part of the show, So here is

(17:05):
now what is transpired. He issues a statement and then
this phony picture which is so obviously staged photo shop
with this newspaper. It's like almost like proof of life,
you know, like, well here's this newspaper and it's like
relatively current, so you know, sitting in some kind of

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a chair, but he's not in hospital clothes. He's got
a shirt of a normal regular shirt and I believe
jeans on with his wife, Elaine Chow beside him, holding
his hand. The whole thing is just very bizarre, and
so this is what they want us to believe. He

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took a fall, according to him. I'm just going by
his story, and he's been in the hospital now for
nearly a month over a fall. Didn't have a stroke,
didn't have a heart attack, didn't break any bones, didn't
do any didn't have a concussion, did nothing, no injuries whatsoever.
He just had a fall. That's it, by the way.

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No bruises, no nothing. And then he's got a mild
case of pneumonia. So they've kept him in the hospital
for nearly four weeks, almost a month. But now they're
saying he needs to rehab and so they're sending him
to a rehabilitation hospital for at least another three weeks. Meanwhile,

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after he apparently was in the hospital having just fallen
and people were very concerned, they had to, you know,
the ambulance went to his home and they they did
have to perform CPR. Apparently allegedly is his wife by
his side, Elaine Chow.

Speaker 8 (18:56):
No no, no, no.

Speaker 2 (18:59):
She flies, I swear to you to China. As you
know her family, they're originally from Taiwan, have a huge
shipping business and their biggest client is Communist China, and
that's how they've made the family fortune. In fact, McConnell
and Alan Chau are worth over eighty almost ninety million

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dollars and most of it is because they've been swimming
in CCP Chinese Communist Party money. Well, if your husband
had just been hospitalized, I'm just asking all of you,
and he was unconscious to the point that he can't

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get out of a hospital for a month and has
to do rehab for another three weeks. When your husband's
dire hour, just after he apparently was taken in and
had CPR performed on him, would you fly off to
Communist China to meet with the Foreign Minister of China,

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to meet with the Vice President of China, to meet
with leading members of the Chinese Communist Party. I'm just
is that what a loving wife, a loving, caring, devoted
spouse does, or is she briefing the CCP on the
status of her husband and whether he can still perform

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or do favors for.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
The try comps.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
Because essentially they bought McConnell by buying his wife and
the family of his wife. McConnell has always been very
soft on Communist China. I can give you issue after
issue after issue. He's their man in Washington, he's their
man in the Senate. As by the way, many others,
either Republicans or Democrats, are owned lock stock and barrel

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by the communist Chinese. It's an open secret. So her
husband has just fallen unconscious, rushed to the hospital, and
what does she do? She flies to Beijing? Is does
is that a normal reaction? I'm just asking. It's not
a normal reaction to me. If something happened to my wife,

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believe me, it would be the opposite. I'd be calling
work saying, I listen, I'm in no condition to work.
Have Sandy fill in for me. Whatever, run a best
of my wife is in credit. You know, my wife
just fell. They did a CPR on her. She's in
the hospital. I'm in no condition. I can't work. I'm
going to be by her side, holding her hand and
supporting her every step of the way. The last thing

(21:42):
I'm going to do is take a business trip. Okay,
but that's Jeff Cooner. All right, let that go. Now,
I've spoken to several health professionals, including as you know,
my brother in law is a doctor. Hey, a general
physician a GP. Now, let me tell you what every

(22:04):
medical health expert, including nurses and doctors, have told me.
No one, no one is hospitalized for four weeks over
a fall. They've never heard of that. They've never heard
of that. So you're hospitalized. If you had a heart attack,

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you're hospitalized. If you had a stroke, you're hospitalized. If
you had a really bad fall and you suffered a
very serious concussion or broken bones. And even then, most
people who have these kind of really nasty falls, it
may be a week. It's not a month. Now on

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top of all of that, so I know they're lying.
It's obvious they're lying. It's the story they've told us
is preposterous and ludicrous. But then, and every medical expert
has told me this, Jeff, I've never heard of having
to spend four weeks in a hospital over a supposed fall,

(23:08):
as I said, with no serious injuries whatsoever. But what
are you rehabbing for? What are you rehabbing from? Nobody
then has to go into a rehab hospital for weeks
and weeks and weeks over a fall. Yes, if you've
had a heart attack, yes, if you've had a stroke, yes,

(23:28):
if you've had a really bad fall and you know
your body's you know whatever, taken serious damage. Okay, that's
something else. But I'm going by their story. No heart attack,
no cardiac arrest, no stroke, no concussion, no broken bones,

(23:51):
no nothing. This is impossible. I'm telling you it's impossible.
It's impossible. And then I want you to listen to this.
This is Senator Ron Johnson, Wisconsin Republican on Newsmax, because
I'm telling you that photo they released of him with

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his wife, it looks like something out of the Soviet Union,
where they would stage a photo to make Stalin look
healthy and vigorous, or to make it seem like he
and Lennon were best friends.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
By the way, they weren't.

Speaker 2 (24:27):
But you'd crop it a little bit and before you
know it, you've got Stalin sitting next to you know,
to Lenin in a picture and they're like buddies. It
looks like something out of the Soviet Union. It's so
obviously staged. Listen now to Senator Ron Johnson on Newsmax
Roll Cut sixteen.

Speaker 10 (24:48):
Mike, I saw a picture that I'm not sure I
believe is actually Mitch McConnell from the hospital. After what
I've heard and what I've seen, do you believe Mitch
McConnell is the one who said, I'm okay, here's the
picture of my wife, Elaine Chow and I in that
hospital bed.

Speaker 11 (25:02):
Well, I just heard from some of the sources that
was an older photo, so I really don't know. I
haven't talked to Mitch. I certainly wish he and his
family well. I hope he can recover. It's listen, it's
it's sad to watch people age, no matter who that
person is. You know, I've served with the Mitch McConnell
for sixteen years. Okay, obviously have disagree with him on

(25:24):
a host of things, but I also know he loves
his country, he loves he loves the Senate. He reviews
the Senate. So again, I do try and put the
best construction on things. I try and look for the
best in people. Mitch McConnell also loves his country, so
I wish him well. I hope he recovers that. I
hope he can come back and contribute to and vote

(25:45):
with the president's agenda. You know.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
Look, but all due respect to Senator Ron Johnson, and
I understand there's a there's diplomatic formality in the Senate
and to be a senator and you have to get along,
and there's collegiality, and I get all that, okay, But
you know, honestly, I'm so sick and tired of the
bull crap.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
You know, forgive me.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
You know what I really want to say, the Bravo Sierra,
the BS and Mitch mcconnald's a patriot. Mitch McConnell loves
our country. No he doesn't. Mitch McConnell is owned by
the communist Chinese. I'm sorry, it's a fact. Mitch McConnell
cares about Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chow and their family
business and enriching themselves and power and influence. And look,

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it is an older photo. It's obviously it's an older photo.
And the whole thing is staged, which means they're covering
up something.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
I don't have sources on the ground, but it's clearly
this No way in hell is this a fall.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
Now.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
Look, I'm sorry. He served in the Senate. What is
it now, his seventh term? His seventh term. He's been
in the Senate for over forty freaking years. Is eighty
four years old. He's clearly he's aging, he's sick. He's

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like Joe Biden oftentimes, he's clearly in cognitive mental decline.
All right, let me put my cards on the table,
and then I want to take your calls. Six one
seven two, six, six, sixty eight, sixty eight. I think
McConnell's people are doing with Mitch what Biden's people did
with Joey with dementia Joe. I think it's clear McConnell's incapacitated.

(27:36):
I don't know exactly what it is. I don't know
if it's severe cognitive mental decline. I don't know if
he had a stroke or a heart attack or whatever,
a really bad fall, and they're trying to cover up
the severity of it. Whatever it is, it's clearly a
cover up. I think there's no question now. And I

(27:58):
just want you to listen to President Trump.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
He's asked by.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
A reporter on Air Force One, have you, you know,
spoken to Mitch McConnell at all?

Speaker 1 (28:08):
I mean it's it's going on.

Speaker 11 (28:10):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (28:10):
Six weeks now? Nobody's heard from the guy Listen to
the president, Roll cut twenty Mike.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
Nolan.

Speaker 12 (28:24):
I have no idea.

Speaker 1 (28:26):
I have no idea how we do.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
So if he has no idea, meaning I'm completely in
the dark, I have no clue.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
It's a cover up.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
All You've got all these senators now claiming, Oh I
spoke to him for twenty minutes. Oh, we spoke about
the legislative process, the Save Act.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
Oh, you're wrong, all the big issues. He's sharp as attack.
Yeah right, yeah right.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
Nobody believes you. Nobody believes you. And I just want
to read this text because this is what many people
are saying. And it's from six to oh three. You
can text the cooner man seven zero four seven zero
seven zero four seven zero, and it's if just so
that people know what I'm referring to. It's the picture

(29:20):
released or the photo released by McConnell and a lane
Chow his wife. It's Mitch McConnell in a shirt. I
don't know, Sandy, what would you say? Is it pink
pink with white squares on it?

Speaker 1 (29:34):
Or is it more orange? Anyway kind of pink, right, yeah,
kind of orange pink, but pink.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
So it's him sitting in a chair with blue jeans on,
his glasses, with a pillow behind him. He's got a
newspaper and his holding it in his right hand, and
which looks photoshopped. It really does. And then you've got
a lane chow with her, you know, sit next to

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him with her right hand sort of behind his left elbow.

Speaker 1 (30:08):
It just it looks altered.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
I mean you just when you look at it, you're like,
this doesn't look right anyway. So this is the photo.
And that was the sort of quote proof of life.
That's what they sent out with the statement. Is his
team did so they said nothing for a month. They
were so tight lipped they wouldn't say anything. Is he
on vacation, no answer? Did he have an accident? No answer?

(30:30):
Is he in the hospital no answer?

Speaker 1 (30:32):
Is he ill? No answer? Is he on vacation? No answer.
So it was just no answer for a month.

Speaker 2 (30:39):
Jeff, I assume you're referring to this quote unquote photo
of McConnell with his wife. I have seen an AI
analysis of this photo, and AI can easily detect when
a photo has been generated by another AI model, and
that's exactly what the determination was. AI cited several key

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factors indicating that this photo is a fake, Well, it
looks like a fake and one last point and then
I want to go to the phones to prove how
fake it is and how easy it is now to
manufacture or fake a picture or a photo.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
Mike walked in.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
Showing me a montage of the same picture, the same
picture using AI and then turning it into a kind
of a video, and you make it seem like it
came from that person, from Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chow,
and it's Mitch standing up doing pushups, break dancing, you know,

(31:55):
like dancing, and Elaine Chow in her voice, pointing up
with their right hand saying, you see, we told you
there's nothing wrong with Mitch McConnell. As this guy's dancing
like a ballet dancer, like twirling on his feet.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
And Mike's point.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
Is, you see how easy it is to generate a
fake photo now in the age of AI. Look, and
I'm gonna get's incredible. It really looks like Mitch McColl
and his wife in that hospital room or rehabilitation room.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
So no I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (32:31):
They're covering it up the way they cover it up
for Biden and what I find most disgusting, replace him.

Speaker 1 (32:38):
Resign.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
It's obvious you've been whatever in hiding and I don't
know getting treatment. Who knows what's going on for the
last five six weeks. You're gonna be out for at
least another three weeks. You're not able to discharge your
duties and responsibility. He's in the Senate, So resign now

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and let somebody else be your replacement who can do.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
The job instead.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
It's Joe Biden all over again. Remember Weekend at Bernie's.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
You know the joke.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
It was weekend at Joey's where it's the movie where
there's a corpse who happens to be their boss. But
they got to pretend he's still alive, so they keep
him propped up for the weekend. That's what they're doing now.
It's weekend at Mitches. They're just somehow, you know, with
pictures and statements and lies, pretending that he's functional when

(33:40):
he's clearly not functional? Am I wrong? Six one seven
two six six sixty eight sixty eight is the number?

Speaker 1 (33:49):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (33:50):
Let me ask you double barreled question, Mitch McConnell, is
he alive or is he dead? I think he's alive, barely,
but I do think he's alive.

Speaker 1 (34:01):
Two.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
Why are they covering up for Mitch McConnell, who either
is suffering from dementia or cognitive impairment, or he suffered
a heart attack or a stroke, whatever it is.

Speaker 1 (34:17):
But they are covering up.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
For a serious health issue. Should McConnell be forced to resign?
I say yes? What say you? Six one seven two
six six sixty eight sixty eight John in Pabaty, Thanks
for holding John, and.

Speaker 4 (34:38):
Welcome the great at all powerful John.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
Where have you been, my friend?

Speaker 4 (34:47):
I've been trying to reach, but you know, work, work
has must prevail. So Jeff, my wife was worked in
this field for well over thirty years as a s
and and she would tell you straight up, the guy
had a stroke, anything in the being in the hospital
for that length of time three or four weeks, Yeah,

(35:09):
it isn't even long enough to recover from a stroke.
And believe me, I believe that's the biggest cover up.
And with AI, you know how many times AI is
faked the death of Hollywood celebrities and stuff, and just
like it says.

Speaker 13 (35:25):
It's hard to believe anything anymore on Facebook.

Speaker 4 (35:28):
Uh so I just step away from that. But Jeff,
even any person on the other end of.

Speaker 13 (35:33):
This radio, isn't that stupid to say that this guy
is in the hospital from a fall. You know, But
we've talked about one situation and probably since you started radio.

Speaker 4 (35:47):
Is the term term limits.

Speaker 13 (35:50):
And I think with these grumpy old men being in
the Senate and in Congress, they once they're in, they're
locked in. And the only way you leave on term
limits as if you have a stroke or you pass away.
So as far as they're concerned, it's in the car.
It's the guy had a stroke. I believe he's not

(36:13):
coming back his faculties out there.

Speaker 4 (36:16):
I guess.

Speaker 13 (36:16):
My wife has worked with all sorts of patients, hospice, dementia, anything.
She's had the experience in and throughout for all these years.
And you can tell me straight up, this guy had
a stroke. You can't fake it. The photos, like I says,
everything is just it's pure fake. It's just a complete

(36:37):
cover up. Just like you know, everything that was said
today was brought to my mind as soon as it
was brought up right here on radio, exactly what happened.

Speaker 2 (36:46):
John, Let me ask you. I agree with you, by
the way, not one hundred but one thousand percent. John,
Let me just ask you two follow up questions, because
you're completely right. Number one, why the cover up? In
other words, it's okay, he had a stroke. I mean,
you know, I feel bad for him. Honestly, I want
nobody to get a stroke. Okay, he had a stroke.

(37:07):
Why not just admit it to the public. He's eighty
four years old, there's no shame. People get strokes, people
get heart attacks. I know people who have gotten strokes
and heart attacks twenty years younger than him. So you're
eighty four years old, you had a stroke. What's the problem.
Why can't they just say he had a stroke. He's

(37:27):
in the process. That's why he's been in the hospital
for so long. That's why he has to go through rehabilitation.
It's going to take him a while. Why a cover
it up? And then the second question, why was his
wife within three days of him being hospitalized from the

(37:48):
supposed you know fall quote unquote.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
She's in China.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
She's in China and she's meeting with I'm talking the tap.
I mean She didn't see Jijinping, but she saw everybody else.
She saw the Vice President, she saw the Foreign Minister,
she saw the Prime Minister. I mean she met basically
the members of the Pola Bureau and was there for
days and days of negotiations. So why is his wife

(38:17):
off to China when this guy was just hospitalized?

Speaker 3 (38:23):
You know?

Speaker 2 (38:23):
John, let me ask you, if God forbid something happened
to you, would your wife go on a business trip
I don't care wherever it is, you know, Canada, China, France, wherever.
Or would you go on a business trip if your
wife was just hospitalized, you know, after apparently a very
nasty fall.

Speaker 1 (38:43):
I mean, who does that? What's your theory, John, three?

Speaker 13 (38:48):
Is that she's probably trying to separate the lock from
the key, probably finding a way to get him over there.

Speaker 4 (38:55):
But not following her.

Speaker 13 (38:57):
You get him on separate planes or something and have
him try to recover over there and stay out of hiding,
stay out of you know, away from the paparazzis, to basically,
you know, surround him. I think it's a diversion to
get him over there. But I think also Miss mccarl
like I said, he's a key factor for the Democratic Party.

(39:19):
I mean, he's fallen into their trap and they're going
to do anything they can to use his power to
get their agenda done. So I think it's all the
math is perfect, Jeff, I mean, think about it. I
think this it's a diversion to get him away from
you know, out of the country and find a way
to recover there, but not go with her because that's

(39:41):
where you know, I guess there's people will flood on
them thinking, you know, where you folks off to. You know,
people are wondering where you are. So I think it's
a diversion to get him over there.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
Interesting. Interesting, John, as always, thank you very very much
for that call. Tim in Marshfield, Thanks for holding Tim
and welcome.

Speaker 12 (40:06):
Morning.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
Hi Tim.

Speaker 12 (40:09):
So Jeff, you make in the comparison to Joe Biden,
what's going on with Mitch McConnell. I would take this
a different road. I would say, what the Republican potty
is doing with him, doctoring him, it's no different than
what the Democrats did with Dianne Feinstein.

Speaker 2 (40:24):
Oh, that's a very good analogy. That's also a very
good analogy. Please keep going.

Speaker 12 (40:30):
Tim, I mean, we know he's old we know he's
an established Rhino Republican, he's been in DC forever. Same
thing with Diane Feinstein. What is it with these people
that they can just not let go of the power,
They can't let the next person in line come up
to take their.

Speaker 2 (40:50):
Position, Tim, what are they? In other words, you think
it's just a reserve his power and the fact that
with him incapacitated or not participating in the Senate, that
weakens the Republican majority because now it's not fifty three,

(41:12):
it's fifty two, and so that continues to undercut Trump.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
Correct.

Speaker 12 (41:18):
I don't know if it's the undercomes Trump or if
these these people that just so you know, they have
this power and they just cannot let go for the
next person to come up in line. And you know what,
me as a younger guy, you know, I'm forty one
years old, I don't want to see these, forgive my language,
old mummies. There forever, I want to see the next

(41:41):
person coming up in line. I want to see new blood.
I want to see it rejuvenated with somebody else.

Speaker 2 (41:47):
Tim, he's only got six months left. He's done, he's
you know, he's retiring, he's not running again. So the
six months. Mean, I'm just asking, does six months mean
that much to him? And that you lose in a
sense your dignity the way they did it with Dianne Feinstein,
where she became an absolute laughingstock, where people almost took

(42:09):
pity on her because her mind was so gone. You know,
where's Elaine Chow, where's his family, where's his staff? Where
is you know, kids or whatever? Saying hey, look my
dad's done. I mean he's just done whatever, stroke, heart attack, whatever,
it may be, dementia, whatever, And okay, fine, you know

(42:34):
he had six months left in his term. There's no dishonor.
And now he's going to resign. He's going to retire.
He's going to effectively resign and let the governor of
Kentucky appoint an interim replacement. I mean, you know, it's
not like the guy has five years left. So you know,
are they that addicted to power that even six months

(42:57):
they want to cling to it? Like it's you know,
like they're like they're clinging for their soul because it's
like this the power and influence mean that much to
them that they can't relinquish it even with six months
left in their term.

Speaker 1 (43:12):
What say you.

Speaker 12 (43:13):
Well, it's like you said, Jeff about certain politicians. You
know how they steal, they take, and you've said it,
you know before, you know, go ahead and take, take,
but don't take so much.

Speaker 2 (43:26):
Yeah, that's an Eastern European saying, which I think is
very funny. Oh so you're saying he's just so so
greedy and so obsessed and corrupted by power that he
just can't let go. He just can't let go. It's
like a heroin addict with heroin. You know, he's gonna
keep shooting up until the last possible moment. Interesting U, Tim,

(43:50):
Thank you very much, very thoughtful call. Thank you, Tim.
Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight. Okay,
a couple of lines are open. Uh, let me ask you,
what is your theory? People believe that he's dead. I'm
being serious people. Many people are saying they think he's
actually dead and the McConnell family and Elaine Chow are

(44:14):
trying to carry him. I don't think he is dead, obviously.
I think he's alive, yeah, or brain dead. That's a
very good point, Sandy. People think, okay, maybe he's physically alive,
but he's brain dead and his staffers want to wield
power on his behalf. Elaine Chow wants to wield power
on his behalf. You know, the way they control Joe Biden.

(44:35):
Mitch McConnell may not be Senate Republican leader, but he's
still a very powerful Republican in the Senate. Well, and
that's the other question, you know, are Republicans being picked off,
you know, one by one. I mean Lindsey Graham falls.
Now you've got McConnell in a hospital and then in

(44:56):
a rehabilitation center. I don't know, it's looking at tad suspicious. Now,
look my honest answer. I think I think Lindsey Graham
had a heart disease, cardiovascular disease.

Speaker 1 (45:09):
I think he had a heart attack. But no, the
rumor is out there.

Speaker 2 (45:14):
Laura Lumer, for example, went on X and she came
out and said he visited a drone factory in Kiev,
the capital of Ukraine, and then came back. And remember
there was a big funeral in Iran where they vowed
to take out you know, key leaders in the United States, Trump,

(45:34):
vance the cabinet, and key senators like Lindsey Graham. The
Russians were at that funeral in Iran for the Supreme Leader.

Speaker 1 (45:44):
How many?

Speaker 2 (45:45):
And so Laura Lumer is out there saying, for example,
and others pushing a conspiracy theory, Well, no, the Russians
had him killed. Had Lindsey Graham killed? I think he
worked himself to death and apparent his staff were saying,
he kept complaining of chest pains and stomach issues, and
they kept saying, look, you got to see a doctor.

Speaker 1 (46:06):
You got to see a doctor. You got to see
a doctor.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
This went on for weeks and weeks and months, and
he kept saying, you know, he puts it off, he
puts it off, and then boom, he gets some massive,
you know, massive cardiac arrest. So personally, do I think
the Russians killed him? No, but you know, you got
to ask. It's a bit suspicious. Lindsey Graham goes down

(46:29):
over the weekend and Mitch McConnell hasn't been seen in
five six weeks.

Speaker 1 (46:34):
And so my question to.

Speaker 2 (46:36):
You, do you believe McConnell is brain dead and is
there now in the truest sense of the word, a
conspiracy meaning a group of people like they did with
Joe Biden, acting in concert to pretend that he's healthier
than what he is, so that they can use him

(46:59):
for whatever reason, Elaine Chao for her business regarding China,
for the power and the wealth, his staff, because essentially
they can control his seat through him acting on his
behalf the way they used Biden as a tool, and frankly,
Dianne Feinstein, her staff, key staff makers, were making all

(47:20):
the decisions. This woman was out to lunch, I mean,
out the left field. She had no idea what she
voted for and what she didn't vote for. She was
basically at the end of mental vegetable. So I'm just curious.
Is there a conspiracy, a cover up going on with
Mitch McConnell. I think there's no question there's a cover up.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
A will it work?

Speaker 2 (47:45):
And b should we demand, as they say, proof of life,
you know, put him on a video conference call and
let the public see if he's able to still function
and speak and talk, because I'm telling you there's no
way he Look, I don't want to mention names, but
somebody who works on this show, that's all I'm going

(48:07):
to say, has a relative. I'm just going to say,
relative who had a nasty fall, had a concussion and
broke their back.

Speaker 1 (48:18):
Hey broke their back and they were out of the hospital.

Speaker 2 (48:23):
I think, what in a week? I mean, yes, they're
rehabbing at home. It's not easy. But what I'm saying is,
you know, you fall, you get a concussion, you break
your back, and you're not in the hospital for more
than a week.