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Mitch McConnell\u2019s wife is refusing to answer questions on her visit to China and her decision not to rush back to the U.S. after her 84-year-old husband was hospitalized. <\/p>\n

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Elaine Chao, 73, was overseas when the Kentucky senator was found unconscious and rushed to the hospital on June 14. Emergency crews responded to a cardiac arrest and administered CPR at the scene, according to dispatch audio. <\/p>\n

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But McConnell\u2019s wife of more than 30 years did not rush back to be at his side and instead was pictured with China\u2019s Vice President Han Zheng three days after McConnell was carried away from his home in an ambulance. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This week, Chao broke her silence with a three-sentence statement attributed to an unnamed spokesperson that said the former transportation secretary was on a \u201clong-planned trip in China\u201d and the senator\u2019s health \u201cdid not warrant an immediate return to the US.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Daily Beast sent Chao a list of questions seeking details about her visit to China, who else she met with, the work she was doing, and when she arrived there, but the inquiry was met with silence. <\/p>\n

In her brief statement on Tuesday, the spokesperson said the trip was to \u201csupport her family\u2019s philanthropic endeavors.\u201d It stated she met with \u201ca number of people, including the US ambassador.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chao\u2019s meeting with China\u2019s vice president in Beijing on June 17 was shared by the Chinese Embassy in the U.S., which said Han \u201curged further efforts to strengthen China-U.S. relations\u201d during their sit-down. <\/p>\n

Chao did not address the nature of their meeting or how it came about in response to the Daily Beast\u2019s questions. <\/p>\n

The former transportation secretary, who served in the first Trump administration as well as under President George W. Bush as labor secretary, also visited Shanghai Jia Tong University on the morning of June 12, two days before the senator\u2019s hospitalization. <\/p>\n

One of the buildings at the university, of which her father is an alumnus, is named in honor of her mother, Ruth Mulan Chu Chao, following a $5 million donation from her family. <\/p>\n

Chao\u2019s father is billionaire shipping magnate James S.C. Chao, who moved to the U.S. in 1958 and soon after founded the international shipping company Foremost Group. <\/p>\n

While Chao\u2019s statement noted her visit was in support of her family\u2019s \u201cphilanthropic endeavors,\u201d her spokesperson did not provide further details. Chao is now back in the U.S., but it is not clear when exactly she returned. <\/p>\n

McConnell has been in the hospital for more than three weeks, and his staff has provided almost no updates on his condition besides claiming in a brief statement more than a week ago, on July 2, that he was improving and working with staff.<\/p>\n

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McConnell\u2019s staff is led by longtime aide Terry Carmack, who is on track to earn more than $226,000 this year.<\/p>\n

The offices of Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Whip John Barrasso insisted on Tuesday that the two Republican leaders had each spoken separately to McConnell by phone this week and talked about policy.<\/p>\n

CNN contributor Scott Jennings also doubled down on his claim that he spoke to McConnell for nearly 20 minutes earlier this week during his television appearances on Thursday, during which he indicated that the Kentucky senator, whom he once worked for, was meeting with staff. <\/p>\n

But MAGA Republicans have not been buying their claims about McConnell\u2019s condition and have been demanding \u201cproof of life\u201d evidence that the senator is not \u201cbrain dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear also sent a letter this week directly to McConnell demanding answers about his health, amid rampant speculation.<\/p>\n

Chao\u2019s spokesperson did not elaborate on why McConnell\u2019s hospitalization did not warrant her immediate return to the U.S. They\u2019ve provided no details on how she learned about her husband\u2019s medical emergency, who found the senator, or whether she had spoken to him after he was hospitalized while she was still traveling overseas. <\/p>\n

This is not the first time McConnell\u2019s health has raised concerns. He was briefly hospitalized in February this year with \u201cflu-like\u201d symptoms. <\/p>\n

The former Senate majority leader also spent more than a month recovering first in a hospital and then at home after he fell and suffered a concussion in 2023. Just months later, he had two separate episodes where he froze on camera while speaking. <\/p>\n

Since then, the senator has tripped and fallen on several occasions, including once on camera on Capitol Hill. He is often seen with aides who help him navigate the halls or push him in a wheelchair. <\/p>\n

More than three weeks after he was hospitalized, a newly released video, obtained and verified by CNN, appears to show McConnell being taken away by an ambulance after he was found unconscious on June 14.<\/p>\n

In the video, emergency responders lift what appears to be the senator on a stretcher into the back of an ambulance, but McConnell\u2019s face is not visible. <\/p>\n

Another ambulance, a fire truck, and Capitol Police officers were also on the scene, a neighbor told CNN. A separate witness noted that McConnell was not wearing an oxygen mask.<\/p>\n

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