McConnell called Trump 'stupid,' 'despicable' in private, according to new book

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: ABC News/AP

October 17, 2024, 5:00 AM


WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitch McConnell said after the 2020 election that then-President Donald Trump was “stupid as well as being ill-tempered," a “despicable human being" and a “narcissist,” according to excerpts from a new biography of the Senate Republican leader that will be released this month.

McConnell made the remarks in private as part of a series of personal oral histories that he made available to Michael Tackett, deputy Washington bureau chief of The Associated Press. Tackett’s book, “The Price of Power,” draws from almost three decades of McConnell’s recorded diaries and from years of interviews with the normally reticent Kentucky Republican.

The animosity between Trump and McConnell is well known — Trump once called McConnell " a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack." But McConnell's private comments are by far his most brutal assessment of the former president and could be seized on by Democrats before the Nov. 5 election. The biography will be released Oct. 29, one week before Election Day that will decide if Trump returns to the White House.

Despite those strong words, McConnell has endorsed Trump’s 2024 run, saying earlier this year “it should come as no surprise” that he would support the Republican party's nominee. He shook Trump’s hand in June when Trump visited GOP senators on Capitol Hill. McConnell, 82, announced this year that he will step aside as Republican leader after the election but stay in the Senate through the end of his term in 2026.

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[twodogsbarking]

1. They are both cut from the same cloth.

[mpcamb]

13. ...and despite what Mitch said, he will still vote for him. What a RAT!

[Raven123]

2. McConnell can't rehabilitate his reputation. Pointless to try.

Another book I won’t read

[oasis]

8. McConnell remains lower than snake shit. nt

[tanyev]

3. If you know he's a stupid, despicable narcissist and continue to support him anyway,

that makes you a stupid, despicable enabler, which is even worse.

[question everything]

4. But still gave him the extreme SCOTUS and changed the whole judiciary system

[C0RI0LANUS]

5. Didn't McConnell's wife get a sweet Cabinet position from Trumpf?

Where McConnell's and John Bolton's books go:

[SamKnause]

6. Fuck you Mitch !!!

You aided, abetted, and enabled trump.

Both of you are lower than pond scum.

National holidays should be declared when both of you die.

You two have been a destructive force against America.

You two care about nothing but money and power.

You two don't give a damn how you attain either.

Fuck you Mitch.

Fuck you trump.

[3auld6phart]

7. Totally

approve your message to that chinless , chicken sit asshole…hattip: Vote BLUE all the way .

[kevink077]

9. Too much of a coward to say it now

Fu!k off Mitch

[NNadir]

10. Despite any personal aminosity they may have, they have worked together...

...to attack any possibly destroy the US Constitution by appointing unqualified misogynist political hacks to the US Supreme Court.

[FakeNoose]

11. True headline: "Pot calls kettle black"

Mitch McConnell is as despicable and stupid s Chump, and he was the main enabler who brought Chump to power in 2016. McConnell is a traitor and a liar, and a lot of this current mess is on HIM. He had TWO chances to impeach Chump and he chickened out both times.

[quakerboy]

12. signifying nothing

Unless they come out and say it publicly, it means nothing. And since they stay republicans, even then it means extremely little

[mdbl]

14. Well Mitch, you and he fucked the country by giving us a biased right wing SCOTUS

who ignores precedent and makes decisions just like Donald Dump - so it's hypocritical to start calling him names.

[mackdaddy]

15. McConnell had the chance to get rid of Trump once and for all, and wimped out.

Mitch could have told his minions in the Senate to Convict for the 1/6 impeachment but decided to punt. He owns this monster.

I hope the blue wave continues and we retake the house and keep the senate.

[Coventina]

16. I eagerly await urinating on both of their graves.