Veteran GOP Rep. Joe Wilson was hospitalized Tuesday after having a medical emergency at an occasion in Washington, his office said.
Wilson (R-S.C.) was at an occasion celebrating Ukrainian independence and was handled on the scene by a health care provider who was amongst these in attendance, in line with an individual conversant in the scenario.
The individual was granted anonymity to debate the occasion earlier than full particulars had been publicly launched.
The congressman’s son, South Carolina Lawyer Normal Alan Wilson, mentioned in an announcement on social media website X that his father skilled “stroke-like signs” after talking together with his mom.
“I used to be capable of communicate with him moments in the past and I’m extremely grateful that he’s secure and being monitored by medical professionals,” Alan Wilson wrote.
Wilson’s workplace mentioned in a quick assertion on the social media website X that the congressman had “taken unwell and is being evaluated at a neighborhood hospital in Washington, DC” with out elaborating additional on his situation.
Extra data was not out there about his standing.
Wilson is co-chair of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus and has been a uncommon outspoken Republican in assist of the nation in its ongoing warfare in opposition to Russia. Information of his medical emergency was first reported by The State.
Wilson has been a member of the Home since 2001 and is a senior member of the Home International Affairs Committee. The congressman is probably greatest identified for shouting “you lie!” as President Barack Obama made a nationally televised speech to Congress. He later apologized.
Since then, Wilson has simply received reelection in his closely Republican district in central and southwest South Carolina.
Paul McLeary contributed to this report.
