McConnell called Trump 'stupid" and 'despicable' in private after the 2020 election, a new book says

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said after the 2020 election that then-President Donald Trump was “stupid as well as being ill-tempered” and a “despicable human being." That's according to a new biography of McConnell that'll be released this month. 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 several years of interviews with the normally reticent Kentucky Republican.