Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) called Trump a “despicable human being,” a “narcissist,” “stupid,” and “ill-tempered” following Trump’s 2020 loss, according to a new book.
“For a narcissist like him … that’s been really hard to take,” McConnell said of Trump at the time. “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.”
The comments are detailed in a book, set to be released a week before the election, titled The Price of Power by Michael Tackett, the Associated Press‘s deputy Washington bureau chief. The book is based on around three decades of McConnell’s recorded diaries and years of interviews that Tackett and McConnell have had.
McConnell made the comments in the days leading up to the Jan. 6 attack as Trump and his allies worked to overturn the results of the election and claimed that the election had been fraudulent in swing states, including Arizona and Georgia.
During the Jan. 6 attack, some of McConnell’s staffers barricaded themselves in their office as rioters broke into the Capitol looking for lawmakers. The book details how McConnell sobbed as he spoke to his office staff and thanked them for their actions that day.
“You are my family, and I hate the fact that you had to go through this,” he told his staff.
