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I spent the day going to the George Washington University Hospital and coming back before Mitch McConnell put out his statement about the fact that he's been discharged from the hospital, is now in a rehabilitation facility and, well, still isn't good to return to duty. The thing is, is I actually, the more I research, the more the more I think that McConnell's team is just playing games with the public and with his constituents. And I'm going to tell you why in this video. And it comes as the President is having a very difficult time in the United States Senate. He needs more Republican votes. He can't get more Republican votes. Whether it's on Todd Blanche, whether it's the SAVE act, whatever legislation he wants to pass or nominee he wants to confirm, he's going to need Mitch McConnell. Right now, he doesn't have Mitch McConnell. What he does have is a federal judge sniffing down his back and, well, urging him, ordering him to hand over critical financial documents in a massive defamation case that has in a lot of ways caused major blowback for the President of the United States. And so we're in a very interesting quagmire in Washington, D.C. right now. And I have all the latest for you. We're on the road to a million subscribers. As always, hit that subscribe button like comment, share, get the word out to support this independent journalism. I feel like I'm one of the only people. There are a couple others, but I'm one of the only people who's actually going to the hospital regularly. But I want to take you through what's happening with Mitch McConnell today because I'm sure you've seen the second proof of life image that was released by McConnell's team. Well, I'm sure you've also seen this statement from the Office of Attending Physician. I read it in my prior report, but I'm going to read it again because I think it's important. And I want to highlight a part that really set me down a bit of a rabbit hole. Senator McConnell continues his recovery from a fall at home. In June, OAP physicians visit with the Senator every day, discussing all aspects of his rehabilitation care. Since his discharge from hospital care, he has maintained a strenuous course of physical therapy and rehabilitation, including multiple sessions a day designed to rebuild strength and reduce the risk of future falls. His bout with childhood polio continues to be a significant factor in his mobility. He has not yet medically cleared to leave the rehab facility and return to the office. Okay, now a couple of things. I'm a lawyer, and this statement sounds like it was written like a lawyer. The first thing is he was discharged from, quote, hospital care. He wasn't discharged from the hospital. Hospital care is very different from the term hospital. Okay. At the end they say he's in a rehab facility. Now, many journalists and many reporters got that to mean. Okay, well, he's now no longer at the George Washington University Hospital. He's actually in a different facility. But that's not actually what may be happening. And I don't know for sure, honestly. But I was a George Washington University alum. I've been to that hospital multiple times. Even before Mitch McConnell was there as a student, I went there to the ER and elsewhere. Right. And, well, what George Washington University has that some other hospitals, smaller hospitals may not. It has acute rehabilitation services inside the hospital. The way this sounds to me is that he was discharged from hospital care. He's now in rehabilitative care, probably in the same hospital. This is what the acute rehab team at the George Washington University Hospital does. They assist people who have experienced an illness or injury that limits their ability to function. Their goal is to help patients develop the skills that they need to live as independently as possible after leaving their facility. Acute rehabilitation consists of at least three to five hours of therapy every day, five days a week. They have a all private 16 bed unit on the fourth floor of the George Washington University Hospital. The ones that can benefit from acute rehabilitation care include those that need daily access to a rehabilitation physician who will oversee the patient's medical needs and functional plan of care. Those that would require 24 hours of rehabilitative nursing are able to tolerate a relatively intense therapy program consisting of at least three hours of therapy, need at least two types of therapy, or have the ability to achieve rehabilitation goals in a reasonable period of time. And the ones, the treatments that they couldn't, that they cover include brain injury, arthritis, multiple trauma, strokes, spinal cord injury, neurological disorders, amputation, orthopedic injuries. Now, to me, Mitch McConnell fell, which is some type of trauma. Multiple trauma, could be a brain injury, could be orthopedic related injuries. Obviously we don't have the exact diagnosis because. Right. His team has been relatively mum on it. But I firmly believe that Mitch McConnell remains in that hospital, the more I think about it, in this acute rehabilitative facility. But it's not just that he could very well just be right across the street. GW has a different rehabilitative facility, literally two blocks away, an outpatient rehabilitation center. It's located right across the street, theoretically. And this is maybe the reason why you have Mitch McConnell's capital detail car still parked out front of the hospital, because that's a really good place for parking. DC Parking is tough, if you know anything about DC and so it makes sense that they would park outside of the hospital and maybe he's in a rehabilitation center a couple blocks away. So based on everything I know, he's probably still at the hospital, but his team is playing war games here because, yeah, he may not be in hospital care, but he may still be in the hospital. I think that's a very important distinction because if you know anything about United States senate, well, Mitch McConnell is collecting a massive paycheck. Thousands of dollars. I believe it's about $174,000 a year. So he's collecting, since he went to the hospital, thousands of dollars. And at the same time, he has not provided any video footage of him working. He has not spoken to constituents. He has not spoken to anyone. And so at the same time, Kentucky's constituents, Kentucky Residents don't actually have a United States senator that's actively working for them. And it comes, like I said, at a very precarious time for this White House. This White House needs Mitch McConnell's vote. Without Mitch McConnell, they can't get much done. Now, Mitch McConnell wasn't a fan of the President of the United States, but he is generally a reliable Republican vote on many issues, including potentially even the SAVE Act. Now, he has in the past kind of been wishy washy on the SAVE act, especially because it's coming from Trump and could have a whole host of issues. But at the end of the day, this is still the same Senator who blocked Merrick Garland's confirmation because he wanted to ensure Republicans have another appointment to the United States Supreme Court. And they were successful in getting that with Neil Gorsuch. If there is, for example, another Supreme Court battle, they're going to need McConnell's vote. Now, their margin right now, I believe, is 52 to 47. They can only afford to lose, truly, they need 50 votes. In most instances. They could only afford to lose two McConnell with. So that's problematic for them. That's problematic for them. And it also comes at a problematic time for the President of the United States because this order was handed down. Today, the BBC is about to get critical financial documents from the Trump family and the Trump trust production. Among other categories of documents include financial documents that reflect the trust holdings and values, including documents such as trust and instrument copies, documents relating to the trust's financial interests, the trust schedule of assets, inventories and lists of properties held, along with documents reflecting real property held. The trust objected to the subpoena and refused to respond to the document request asserting that, quote, one, the trust is a non party and therefore should not be burdened with the expense and inconvenience of responding. The subpoena seeks information unrelated to the issues in the party's pleading. The subpoena is disproportional because it seeks information from nearly 400 entities. Time of compliance is unreasonable, and President Trump's assertion of damages to his business debts does not entitle defendant to their financial information of the trust. Court rejected all these arguments. BBC is going to get all these documents. They may appeal. They may try to stop it. That's what the administration does. But ultimately, this lawsuit is backfiring on the President of the United States and his family. Another example of a situation that they really desperately did not want to happen and yet did happen. Now the president, for his part, is kind of feeling the heat he's feeling the heat. He was heckled today at a rally in Michigan where he was called a, quote, pedo protector. I want you to watch this moment in his response.
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Tremendous problems for your jobs. But now all of that is changing because I placed historic tariffs on foreign producers and manufacturers, including a 25% tariff on foreign automobiles, something that no other president had the courage to ever do. He's a communist. He's a communist. Thank you. He's a communist. We're running against communists now. This is great.
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He didn't say, no, I'm not. He just said, guy's a communist. Guy's a Communist. Now, there were some other odd moments there that setting off some alarm bells within conservative communities. The first is he forgot that he didn't attend the G20 summit. Take a listen, Mary.
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I hate to say you wouldn't have an auto industry right now if they got elected. You wouldn't have an auto industry. But I don't know what happened to the guy. Somebody said he got fired. But I can tell you, the people that count, those people love Trump because I've done more for you than your parents. Okay, Your parents are good. I'm not going to knock your parents, but I have been better to you than your parents. That I can tell you. And they would agree with me. Wherever they may be, they would agree today. I'm proud. Tremendous problems for your jobs. But now all of that,
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so. Problematic for the president. Problematic for the president. And so we're entering a very interesting time in Washington, D.C. todd Blanche's confirmation is this Thursday in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. That vote passes, it'll head to the full Senate. We'll see whether or not the vote passes. It'll ultimately hinge on one Senator, Thom Tillis, and we'll see if it passes. But I do want to go through, just quickly, some other news that you may have missed today, in case you weren't as hyper attentive to it as I have been. US Military veterans are calling the Pentagon's reclassification of Iran casualties a, quote, huge disrespect for families. Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to allow a sweeping executive order restricting mail and voting to take effect for November's midterms. Andrew and Tristan Tate will remain in U.S. custody for at least two more weeks as they fight extradition to the United Kingdom. The Justice Department moved to dismiss its criminal case against David Huerta, the president of SEIU California. And former FBI Director James Comey is asking federal judge to dismiss charges accused of threatening President Donald Trump over the 2025 Instagram post showing seashells arranged in an 8647 format. So we'll see what what comes of this week. I'm going to keep pressing on Mitch McConnell. Maybe I'll go back to the hospital, I'll take a look again and I'll let you know if I find anything. I'll keep pressing on Epstein. We're have some very big Epstein news this Wednesday, so stay tuned on that front. And yeah, that's the name, that's the news. So like comment, share, get the word out, help us get to a million subscribers and I'll see you soon for more. Hey folks, thanks so much for watching. Feel free to add this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or anywhere you watch for the latest breaking news and daily hits throughout the day. Make sure to follow subscribe. See you soon for more.
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