{"id":749,"date":"2023-07-26T19:36:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T01:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/?p=749"},"modified":"2023-07-27T06:40:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T12:40:51","slug":"sen-mitch-mcconnell-freezes-up-during-press-conference-unable-to-speak-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/sen-mitch-mcconnell-freezes-up-during-press-conference-unable-to-speak-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Mitch McConnell Freezes Up During Press Conference; Unable to Speak &#8211; Video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell froze up during his Press Conference today while answering a question. It was a long 30-second pause that was abrupt and jarring. It is obvious McConnell was in distress and unable to speak. Sen. John Barasso finally led him away to his office. McConnell did return later and answered some questions, saying &#8220;I&#8217;m fine.&#8221; He certainly needs to get checked out, because what happened there was not normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell abruptly stops speaking during a press conference as nearby Senators and aids intercede to lead him away from the podium. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pAr91uRSsy\">pic.twitter.com\/pAr91uRSsy<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/charliekirk11\/status\/1684267835495972870?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 26, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell froze up during his Press Conference today while answering a question. It was a long 30-second pause that was abrupt and jarring. It is obvious McConnell was in distress and unable to speak. Sen. John Barasso finally led him away to his office. McConnell did return later and answered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitch-mcconnell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}