Mitch McConnell unloads on 'narcissist' Trump as 'despicable human being': new biography

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David McAfee
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Raw Story
October 17, 2024Bank

Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell called Donald Trump a "narcissist" and a "despicable human being," among other things, according to an upcoming biography.

McConnell, who has publicly disagreed with Trump on several occasions but largely stuck by the former president's side, is reported to have made the remarks following the events of Jan. 6 in 2021. At the time of the riot, McConnell publicly condemned Trump's actions, but said he shouldn't be impeached for it because it would be up to the justice system to punish him for spurring the attack on the Capitol.

Now, the Associated Press is unveiling specific comments McConnell purportedly made about Trump in private.

"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," according to the report. "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 report continues:

"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."

McConnell has still endorsed Trump for his White House bid.

Read the report here.