The Senate minority leader also said the former president committed an “impeachable offense” on January 6. McConnell voted against impeachment anyway.
McConnell’s unvarnished opinions of Trump, first reported by the Associated Press and CNN, appear in a forthcoming biography of McConnell by journalist Michael Tackett. Tackett based the book on both conversations with McConnell and the senator’s personal archive, including an oral diary dating back to 1995. McConnell did not mince words, calling Trump “erratic,” “stupid,” “ill-tempered,” “irascible,” “nasty” and “just about every quality you would not want somebody to have.
” Also: “Unfortunately, about half the Republicans in the country believe whatever he says.” McConnell—who has led the Senate Republican Conference since 2007—has famously had a rocky relationship with Trump. The senator defied Trump’s claims that he won the 2020 election and broke with the former president to congratulate Joe Biden. McConnell also denounced Trump on the Senate floor in February 2021, calling him “practically and morally responsible” for the attack on the US Capitol.
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