'Not a valid medical diagnosis': Rand Paul knocks doctor's explanation after Mitch McConnell freezes
Mitch McConnell,Rand Paul,Politics
WASHINGTON — While Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., received well wishes from most of his colleagues following his second health episode where he froze while speaking to reporters, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., still has questions about the leader’s health − even after he was cleared by doctors. “I don't think it's been particularly helpful to have the Senate doctor describing it as dehydration, which I think even a non-physician seeing that probably aren't really accepting that explanation,” Paul told reporters Tuesday, according to Punchbowl. The Kentucky senator expressed doubts...
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