A Democratic strategist and Hillary Clinton supporter mocked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Twitter Thursday for an old video clip set to comical music showing the 77-year-old Kentucky senator tripping on his way up to a podium, snidely joking that the footage showed “McConnell standing up for America.”
“Yesterday I posted this new found footage of Mitch McConnell standing up for America. 368,000 views overnight,” wrote Adam Parkhomenko. "Mitch McConnell does not want you to let this video get up to 1,000,000 views."
Yesterday I posted this new found footage of Mitch McConnell standing up for America. 368,000 views overnight. Mitch McConnell does not want you to let this video get up to 1,000,000 views. pic.twitter.com/PZTGBGOrjt
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) April 4, 2019
The clip was also posted by Occupy Democrats, a left-wing Facebook page, where it's gotten nearly a million views and been shared more than 12,000 times.
However hilarious the left might find this clip of an old man stumbling, it's well known by now that McConnell was left partially paralyzed in his upper left leg by a polio attack at the age of two, narrowly escaping being even more handicapped only by his mother's insistence on rehabilitation. Years later, McConnell still has trouble with stairs thanks to his old injuries, often needing to be helped by someone else.
As a lawmaker, he’s been a vocal advocate of U.S. spending overseas to try and eradicate diseases like the one that nearly left him crippled for life.
Parkhomenko, who’s got more than 250,000 followers on Twitter, served as the National Field Director for the Democratic National Committee in 2016. He’s also the co-founder and executive director of the SuperPAC “Ready for Hillary,” and was a candidate for Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee, though he ultimately lost that bid.