Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has had a rocky relationship with former President Donald Trump ever since the outcome of the 2020 election.
According to ABC News, an upcoming biography revealed how McConnell really felt about Trump following the election, and his words are sure to stir a response from the former president.
In the biography, McConnell reportedly disparaged Trump at the time, calling him "stupid" and "despicable."
McConnell and Trump have traded barbs for years, and the Kentucky Republican's new biography will undoubtedly cement those hard feelings.
Michael Tackett, deputy Washington bureau chief of The Associated Press, authored the McConnell biography, and some of the Republican leader's private remarks were included in the book, titled "The Price of Power."
Notably, the biography is set to be released at the end of October, just a week out from the next election. Many believe Democrats could leverage McConnell's assessment of Trump to score points.
"And for a narcissist like him,” McConnell reportedly said, "that's 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."
McConnell also said Trump is "stupid as well as being ill-tempered and can’t even figure out where his own best interests lie."
ABC News noted:
The animosity between Trump and McConnell is well known — Trump once called McConnell " a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack." But McConnell's 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.
Even with the back-and-forth between the two Republicans, McConnell endorsed Trump's presidential run over the summer, and was even seen shaking hands with Trump, though it was likely for the cameras and GOP unity.
After several medical episodes over the past two years, McConnell finally agreed earlier this year to step aside as the Senate Republican leader after the upcoming election.
The Senate GOP leader told reporters that anything he said was nothing compared to what Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) -- both strong Trump allies -- said about him.
McConnell clarified that regardless of what has been said, he's on the "same team" now.
"Whatever 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."
