MAGA influencers are fanning fresh claims of a health cover-up around Mitch McConnell after Senate Republican leaders said this week that they had spoken with the Kentucky senator, who has been hospitalised since 14 June and has offered only sparse public updates through his office.
The row has dragged McConnell's condition back into the spotlight and left Republicans answering a far more awkward question than they probably expected, what exactly can they prove, and why now?
