By
Olivia Craighead,
a news writer for The Cut who covers pop culture and celebrity.
Previously, she wrote about pop culture and entertainment at Gawker.
Nearly a month ago, Mitch McConnell was hospitalized. At the time, staffers for the 84-year-old Kentucky senator did not say why he was admitted to the hospital, only that he was “receiving excellent care.” In the weeks since, it came out that paramedics responded to a “cardiac arrest” at McConnell’s home the day he was hospitalized. Now, a right-wing conspiracy theorist is saying that the senator is “brain dead” while his friends are saying that he’s rolling calls from his hospital bed. Here’s what you need to know about the situation.
