NBC News - Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has endorsed Donald Trump for president this year. But in a new book, the powerful Kentucky Republican is quoted after the 2020 election disparaging Trump as a “despicable human being,” “stupid” and “ill-tempered."
Those quotes and scenes are depicted in “The Price of Power,” a new book out [in October] by veteran journalist Michael Tackett, deputy bureau chief of The Associated Press. His reporting is based on almost three decades of private oral histories McConnell shared with Tackett, as well as more than 50 hours of interviews and thousands of McConnell’s personal and official records.
McConnell did not deny his statements about Trump as quoted in the book, when asked about it Thursday. “Whatever I may have said about President Trump pales in comparison to what JD Vance, Lindsey Graham, and others have said about him,” McConnell said in a statement, “but we are all on the same team now.”
In the book, McConnell, the longest-serving Senate leader in history, gives his unfiltered observations about presidents, House speakers, Cabinet officials, fellow senators and tech leaders. But his most scathing criticism was reserved for Trump.
In late December 2020, a month after Joe Biden defeated Trump in the presidential election, McConnell skewered Trump for holding up billions of dollars in Covid relief funds.
“This despicable human being is sitting on this package of relief that the American people desperately need,” McConnell told his oral historian.
McConnell was also worried that Trump’s actions after losing the election — questioning Georgia’s election system and feuding with state officials there — could cost Republicans two Senate seats in the Peach State that same month. Republicans did end up losing both seats — and the Senate majority....
Trump is “stupid as well as being ill-tempered and can’t even figure out where his own best interests lie,” McConnell said.
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