Elaine Chao’s Family Friend Calls Out Strange Detail in New McConnell Photo

JULIA DEMAREE NIKHINSON / AFP via Getty Images A family friend of Elaine Chao isn’t buying Mitch McConnell’s new proof-of-life photo. Jeff Yang, an author and podcaster, said he has known two of Chao’s five sisters since college. So when McConnell’s office released a photo of Chao, 73, with her 84-year-old husband on Monday, he was immediately skeptical. “I’ve known members of the Chao family—specifically, Elaine’s apolitical sisters (Grace and the late Angela)—since our college years,” Yang…