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Dulcinea

(10,552 posts)
Sat Jul 11, 2026, 07:03 AM Yesterday

Elaine Chao, wife of Mitch McConnell, issues statement after US return

(USA Today) Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao returned to the United States from China this week after her husband, Sen. Mitch McConnell, was hospitalized on June 14.

Chao's travel during McConnell's hospitalization fueled unfounded conspiracy theories online.

"The secretary was on a long-planned trip in China to support her family's philanthropic endeavors," a spokesperson for Chao said in a statement to The Courier Journal, part of the USA TODAY Network. "During the trip, she met with a number of people, including the U.S. ambassador. The senator's health did not warrant an immediate return to the U.S."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/elaine-chao-wife-mitch-mcconnell-162833029.html

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Elaine Chao, wife of Mitch McConnell, issues statement after US return (Original Post) Dulcinea Yesterday OP
Well that's cold. bucolic_frolic Yesterday #1
she could stop it rampartd Yesterday #4
All past tense... including the Senator's health C_U_L8R Yesterday #2
Yeah, health did not warrant staying home because he was ALREADY DEAD? biophile Yesterday #3
She was given a cabinet position once, correct? gab13by13 Yesterday #5

bucolic_frolic

(56,506 posts)
1. Well that's cold.
Sat Jul 11, 2026, 07:15 AM
Yesterday

IMHO a great marriage or she doesn't want to get mixed up in what the Republicans are doing.

rampartd

(5,887 posts)
4. she could stop it
Sat Jul 11, 2026, 07:53 AM
Yesterday

assuming she is next of kin.

but she is a repub. doesn't trump trash talk ms chau?

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