Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is having a rough few weeks. Reports on NBC News say he fell at an airport earlier in the month and needed a wheelchair to get around the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. This all took place before Mitch McConnell appeared frozen at the podium during a news conference and had to be escorted away for a few moments. The NBC News report said the following about Mitch taking a tumble:

McConnell, 81, was not seriously hurt, and he was seen later that day at the Capitol, where he interacted with at least one reporter.

The fall, which has not been previously reported, occurred July 14 after the flight out of Washington was canceled while everyone was on board. McConnell, R-Ky., who was a passenger, had a “face plant,” someone who was on the plane at the time but did not witness the fall told NBC News. That passenger also said they spoke to another passenger who helped tend to McConnell.

McConnell has also recently been using a wheelchair as a precaution when he navigates crowded airports, said a source familiar with his practices.

McConnell, a polio survivor who has long struggled to navigate stairs and other obstacles, has had a difficult recent history with falls. He sustained a concussion and a cracked rib in a fall in Washington this year, and he spent six weeks away from the Senate. He fractured a shoulder in a fall in Kentucky in 2019, requiring surgery.