{"id":115380,"date":"2024-10-18T01:22:31","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T18:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=115380"},"modified":"2024-10-18T01:22:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T18:22:31","slug":"new-book-details-mcconnells-thoughts-on-trump-after-2020-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=115380","title":{"rendered":"New book details McConnell&#8217;s thoughts on Trump after 2020 election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mitch-mcconnell\">Mitch McConnell<\/a><\/span> said after the 2020 election that then-President Donald Trump was \u201cstupid as well as being ill-tempered,\u201d a \u201cdespicable human being\u201d and a \u201cnarcissist,\u201d according to excerpts from a new biography of the Senate Republican leader that will be released this month. <\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s book, \u201cThe Price of Power,\u201d draws from almost three decades of McConnell\u2019s recorded diaries and from years of interviews with the normally reticent Kentucky Republican. <\/p>\n<p>The animosity between Trump and McConnell is well known \u2014 Trump once called McConnell &#8221; <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/capitol-siege-donald-trump-political-action-committees-impeachments-mitch-mcconnell-201c0f4a6565439a31fad831390ddd2b\">a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack<\/a><\/span>.\u201d But McConnell\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>Despite those strong words, McConnell has <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mitch-mcconnell-endorsement-donald-trump-super-tuesday-422a2ec6f19917b46804b4cf6ee40371\">endorsed Trump\u2019s 2024 run<\/a><\/span>, saying earlier this year \u201cit should come as no surprise\u201d that he would support the Republican party\u2019s nominee. He <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/senate-republicans-endorse-trump-election-mcconnell-ebd9fe54f761d388b235ea3e87cf04eb\">shook Trump\u2019s hand<\/a><\/span> in June when Trump visited GOP senators on Capitol Hill. <\/p>\n<div data-module=\"\" data-module-trackunsubscribe=\"\" class=\"PageListEnhancementGeneric Enhancement\" data-align-center=\"\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<p><bsp-list-loadmore data-module=\"\" class=\"PageListStandardB\" data-gtm-region=\"RELATED COVERAGE\" data-gtm-topic=\"No Value\" data-hide-dates=\"true\" 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leader after the election but stay in the Senate through the end of his term in 2026. <\/p>\n<h2>McConnell was \u2018counting the days\u2019 until Trump left office<\/h2>\n<p>The comments about Trump quoted in the book came in the weeks before the <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/projects\/january-6-cases\/\">Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.<\/a><\/span> Trump was then actively trying to overturn his loss to Democrat Joe Biden. McConnell feared this would hurt Republicans in two Georgia runoffs and cost them the Senate majority. Democrats <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/Georgia-election-results-4b82ba7ee3cc74d33e68daadaee2cbf3\">won both races<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Publicly, McConnell had <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-antony-blinken-cabinets-6e5422693064e5057fe4e83cdd26469d\">congratulated Biden<\/a><\/span> after the Electoral College certified the presidential vote and the senator <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mitch-mcconnell-congratulates-joe-biden-2ed09a34fbbc3342fe45c733ee0dd725\">warned his fellow Republicans<\/a><\/span> not to challenge the results. But he did not say much else. Privately, he said in his oral history that \u201cit\u2019s not just the Democrats who are counting the days\u201d until Trump left office, and that Trump\u2019s behavior \u201conly underscores the good judgment of the American people. They\u2019ve had just enough of the misrepresentations, the outright lies almost on a daily basis, and they fired him.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd for a narcissist like him,\u201d McConnell continued, \u201cthat\u2019s been really hard to take, and so his behavior since the election has been even worse, by far, than it was before, because he has no filter now at all.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Before those Georgia runoffs, McConnell said Trump is \u201cstupid as well as being ill-tempered and can\u2019t even figure out where his own best interests lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump was also holding up a <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/donald-trump-politics-legislation-coronavirus-pandemic-bills-3cf97d6b39b80213ecd3d49ed4dcdc1e\">coronavirus aid package<\/a><\/span> at the time, despite bipartisan support. \u201cThis despicable human being,\u201d McConnell said in his oral history, \u201cis sitting on this package of relief that the American people desperately need.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 6, soon after he made those comments, McConnell was holed up in a secure location with other congressional leaders, calling Vice President Mike Pence and military officials for reinforcements as Trump supporters stormed the Capitol. Once the Senate resumed debate over the certification of Biden\u2019s victory, McConnell said in a speech on the floor that \u201cthis failed attempt to obstruct the Congress, this failed insurrection, only underscores how crucial the task before us is for our republic.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>McConnell then went to his office to address his staff, some of whom had barricaded themselves in the office as rioters banged on their doors. He started to sob softly as he thanked them, Tackett writes. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are my family, and I hate the fact that you had to go through this,\u201d he told them. <\/p>\n<p>The next month, McConnell gave his harshest public criticism of Trump on the Senate floor, saying he was \u201c <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mitch-mcconnell-donald-trump-impeachment-c9a38d7492feea56821f4e0930914b61\">practically and morally responsible<\/a><\/span> \u201d for the Jan. 6 attack. Still, McConnell voted to acquit Trump after House Democrats impeached him for inciting the riot. <\/p>\n<h2>Years of doubts and criticism<\/h2>\n<p>In a statement to the AP on Thursday, McConnell referenced two fellow Republican senators \u2014 JD Vance of Ohio, the vice presidential nominee, and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, both of whom are strong Trump allies after harshly criticizing him during his first run in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhatever I may have said about President Trump pales in comparison to what JD Vance, Lindsey Graham, and others have said about him, but we are all on the same team now,\u201d McConnell said. <\/p>\n<p>McConnell also had doubts about Trump from the start. Just after Trump was elected in 2016, as Congress was certifying the election, McConnell told Biden, then the outgoing vice president, that he thought Trump could be trouble, Tackett writes. <\/p>\n<p>The book channels McConnell\u2019s inner thoughts during some of the biggest moments after Trump took office, as McConnell held his tongue and as the two men repeatedly fought and made up. <\/p>\n<p>In 2017, as Trump publicly criticized McConnell for the Senate\u2019s <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/north-america-donald-trump-us-news-ap-top-news-bills-0bd309f182de44d9bc320f334be94875\">failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act<\/a><\/span>, Trump and McConnell had a heated argument on the phone. Weeks went by with no contact. Then Trump invited McConnell to the White House and called a joint news conference without telling him first. McConnell said the event went fine, and \u201cit\u2019s not hard to look more knowledgeable than Donald Trump at a press conference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the passage of a <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/general-news-united-states-congress-e3990de7f5bc45ffb7e171cfcc364fce\">$1.5 trillion tax overhaul<\/a><\/span> that same year, McConnell said, \u201cAll of a sudden, I\u2019m Trump\u2019s new best friend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He blamed Trump after House Republicans lost their majority in the 2018 midterm elections, Tackett writes. Trump \u201dhas every characteristic you would not want a president to have,\u201d McConnell said in an oral history at the time, and was \u201cnot very smart, irascible, nasty.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In 2022, as Trump continued to criticize McConnell and made racist comments about his wife, former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, McConnell told Tackett that \u201cI can\u2019t think of anybody I\u2019d rather be criticized by than this sleazeball.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery time he takes a shot at me, I think it\u2019s good for my reputation,\u201d McConnell said. <\/p>\n<p>Also in 2022, McConnell said in his oral history that Trump\u2019s behavior since losing the election had been \u201cbeyond erratic\u201d as he kept pushing false allegations of voter fraud. \u201cUnfortunately, about half the Republicans in the country believe whatever he says,\u201d McConnell said. <\/p>\n<p>By 2024, McConnell had again endorsed Trump. 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