{"id":10266,"date":"2026-07-19T05:29:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T00:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=10266"},"modified":"2026-07-19T05:29:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T00:29:22","slug":"what-would-be-the-consequences-to-politicians-who-lied-about-mitch-mcconnell-being-alive-and-alert-if-gov-beshear-proves-that-he-is-either-dead-or-incapacitated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=10266","title":{"rendered":"What would be the consequences to politicians who lied about Mitch McConnell being alive and alert if Gov. Beshear proves that he is either dead or incapacitated?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/law\/comments\/1v098o3\/what_would_be_the_consequences_to_politicians_who\/\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/external-preview.redd.it\/l-HTxxMeP1SiF9Wv5dD_bXPjQngEsjkO69eGMmdiWjM.png?width=640&amp;crop=smart&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=a53d83c2db3eaf1913688f3febc8ce033f43d9c2\" alt=\"What would be the consequences to politicians who lied about Mitch McConnell being alive and alert if Gov. Beshear proves that he is either dead or incapacitated?\" title=\"What would be the consequences to politicians who lied about Mitch McConnell being alive and alert if Gov. Beshear proves that he is either dead or incapacitated?\" \/> <\/a> <\/td>\n<td> <!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>As the title asks, what would happen? Are there consequences to lying to the public about something like that? Could it really just be swept under the rug or could charges be pressed?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON --> &#032; submitted by &#032; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Tigermelon74\"> \/u\/Tigermelon74 <\/a> &#032; to &#032; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/law\/\"> r\/law <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/kentucky-governor-says-he-received-2-calls-from-agencies-indicating-mcconnell-had-passed\"><\/a><\/span> &#032; <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/law\/comments\/1v098o3\/what_would_be_the_consequences_to_politicians_who\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the title asks, what would happen? Are there consequences to lying to the public about something like that? Could it really just be swept under the rug or could charges be pressed? &#032; submitted by &#032; \/u\/Tigermelon74 &#032; to &#032; r\/law &#032; [comments]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/external-preview.redd.it\/l-HTxxMeP1SiF9Wv5dD_bXPjQngEsjkO69eGMmdiWjM.png?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=a53d83c2db3eaf1913688f3febc8ce033f43d9c2","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-trending-viral-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}