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CNN Appears To Fall For Joke X Account During Mitch McConnell Segment

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CNN featured a statement about Republican Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell from a parody X account, apparently believing it was made by a real congressman.

Wednesday’s episode of “CNN This Morning” displayed the satirical account’s quote side by side with similar comments about McConnell’s current health situation from spokespersons for Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Majority Whip John Barrasso and conservative commentator Scott Jennings.

“I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky. He’s still recovering in the hospital. We talked for just shy of 45 minutes,” read Kimble’s Tuesday X post — which CNN featured on the Wednesday morning segment.

Host Audie Cornish appeared to read aloud a portion of the satirical quote on air during the early morning segment.

“So, you have a lot of Senate Republicans coming out, we’re just going to show some on screen … all saying I talked to him, I talked to him, I talked to him for 20 minutes, I talked to him for 45 minutes,” she said, with the “45 minutes” part appearing to reference the parody account.

“CNN’s Extreme leftwing bias exposed,” Kimble wrote on X later Wednesday morning, including a screenshot of the side by side posts.

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Kimble describes himself as a “Republican Representing CA’s 54th Dist. & co-sponsor of Poe’s Law. Detective Jesus #1: Thou Shalt Not Kill is out on Amazon,” according to the parody account’s X bio. California only has 52 congressional districts.

“My campaign has been working hard to contact you about your car’s extended warranty,” according to Kimble’s “campaign” website.

CNN did not immediately respond to The Daily Caller News Foundation’s immediate request for comment.

McConnell, the former Senate majority leader, was hospitalized on June 14 with paramedics finding him unconscious at home in Washington.

McConnell’s office sent an email on Tuesday including multiple similar statements from fellow senators and other individuals all saying they spoke to the Kentucky Republican.

Thune — who succeeded McConnell as the Senate’s GOP leader in 2025 — allegedly spoke with McConnell for a “lengthy and substantive conversation” regarding national security, on the phone, a source told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Thune’s office did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.