LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, Aug. 4, 2019 (Gephardt Daily) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had a serious home injury over weekend.
According to a statement released by McConnell’s office, the 77-year-old politician “tripped at home on his outside patio and suffered a fractured shoulder. He has been treated, released, and is working from his home outside Louisville,” the statement said.
It’s been a rough few days for the six term senator, who started off the week being called a “Russian asset” by the Washington Post for blocking a bi-partisan security bill designed to safeguard U.S. elections from interference by the Kremlin.
That same political maneuver led MSNBC host Joe Scarborough to call the senior senator “Moscow Mitch,” a moniker that quickly became an internet meme.
The usually unflappable McConnell actually responded to last week’s broadsides by way of Twitter. “Modern-day McCarthyism is poison for American democracy,” McConnell wrote. “It is shameful to imply that policy disagreements make the other side unpatriotic. The people who push such unhinged smears are doing Putin’s destabilizing work for him.”
McConnell is now facing criticism for stalling a Senate vote on a gun control bill passed by the House of Representatives weeks ago.
Democrats are demanding he call the Senate back from its six weeks summer vacation to reconsider the mothballed legislation after the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio.
Monday morning Donald Trump expressed tweeted support for a new gun bill saying “Republicans and Democrats must come together and get strong background checks that would focus on background checks, perhaps marrying this legislation with desperately needed immigration reform.”
