Elaine Chao's trench coat in Washington's punishing mid-July heat has fuelled fresh Mitch McConnell theories online, after she was photographed leaving the senator's rehabilitation centre in the capital on Tuesday, 14 July, while he continued recovering from a fall and pneumonia.
The image, and the reaction to it, arrived just days after McConnell publicly confirmed he had been briefly unconscious and said he was still not ready to return to the Senate floor.
