CNN Reporter Criticized Over Insensitive Tweet About Mitch McConnell, Who Survived Polio

President Donald Trump listens to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R–Ky.) speak to the media in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on Oct. 16, 2017. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

A CNN political reporter mocked a Republican politician—oblivious to the fact that he had survived polio.

Daniella Diaz posted a tweet on Monday, Oct. 16, pointing out that President Donald Trump and Sen. Mitch McConnell locked hands while walking upstairs at the White House after their Rose Garden press conference.