An aide to Mitch McConnell twice stonewalled a journalist’s questions about whether the missing Republican senator will be putting out a video statement to prove he’s alive and on the mend. Ballasy uploaded video of both encounters to X. Sen. Mitch McConnell’s Senior Communications Adviser Robert Steurer wouldn’t respond when asked if McConnell will release a video statement. Far-right activist Laura Loomer went so far as to claim she’d been told by sources that the senator is “brain dead.” McConnell’s team dropped their first substantive update on his health on July 12.