Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) called Donald Trump “stupid as well as ill-tempered,” a “despicable human being” and a “narcissist,” in the weeks following the 2020 election, according to excerpts from a new biography of the Senate Minority leader being released this month.
Veteran journalist Michael Tackett, deputy bureau chief of The Associated Press, writes in “The Price of Power” that McConnell and other Republicans were "counting down the days" until Trump left office after he incited the attack on the Capitol on January 6th. Tackett quotes McConnell saying Trump was unfit for office and that he sobbed to his staff during the insurrection that their lives were in danger by the MAGA rioters.
In late December 2020, a month after Joe Biden defeated Trump in the presidential election, McConnell angrily torched Trump for holding up billions of dollars in COVID-19 relief funds. “This despicable human being is sitting on this package of relief that the American people desperately need,” McConnell told Tackett.
McConnell’s private comments are by far his most brutal assessment of Trump that the public has been privy to, and the book's release on October 29th could help Democrats in the final days of the Harris/Walz campaign.
Trump is “stupid as well as being ill-tempered and can’t even figure out where his own best interests lie,” McConnell, who is now refusing to endorse him, said after Trump tried to bully Georgia state election officials into changing the voting totals there, which ended up costing Republicans two Senate seats as well as the Senate majority.