According to a new biography of the senator that is scheduled for release later this month, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) privately disparaged former President Trump as “stupid,” “ill-tempered,” and “a despicable human being” following the 2020 election.
McConnell, who publicly feuded with Trump for the majority of the previous four years, also referred to the former president as a “narcissist” and allegedly acknowledged that “it’s not just the Democrats who are counting the days” until his departure from office following the 2020 election.
As part of a series of personal oral histories that were provided to Michael Tackett, the long-serving GOP leader made his comments.
McConnell’s disparaging remarks regarding the former president were made in the period preceding the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, during which Trump was endeavoring to reverse the results of the 2020 election.
He and Trump publicly parted ways after McConnell acknowledged Joe Biden, the then-candidate, as the election victor following the Electoral College vote in mid-December 2020.
The actions of Trump in the period preceding the disturbances on January 6 were vigorously condemned by McConnell, leading to a major falling out between the two.
McConnell and Trump did not communicate for several years following their disagreement, and they did not reconvene in person until June of this year, when the Republican presidential nominee met with Republican senators at the National Republican Senatorial Committee headquarters on Capitol Hill.
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