Within the 12 months 2024, most individuals know Senator Mitch McConnell is a shameless hack, and there’s little or no that ought to come as a shock with regard to only how massive of a shameless hack he’s. However only for the historic document—and in order that 200 years from now, college students cracking open their textual content books don’t must surprise why his face is pictured beneath the header “Most Large Political Hack of all Time”—right here’s a enjoyable new anecdote re: the Kentucky lawmaker privately acknowledging Donald Trump is principally the Antichrist, and foisting him on the American public however.
The Related Press reports that for The Value of Energy, a brand new biography of McConnell by journalist Michael Tackett, the longtime GOP chief advised him following the 2018 midterms that Trump ”has each attribute you wouldn’t desire a president to have” and was “not very good, irascible, nasty.” After the 2020 election, McConnell advised Tackett he was counting down the times ’til Trump left workplace; that he believed Trump to be a “narcissist”; that Trump was “silly in addition to effectively as…ill-tempered”; and that the then president was a “despicable human being.”
Shortly thereafter, Trump incited a violent assault on the Capitol in an try to carry onto energy; whereas holed up with employees in his workplace, Tackett reviews, McConnell began crying whereas telling the group, “You’re my household, and I hate the truth that you needed to undergo this.” The next month, the lawmaker declared on the Senate flooring that Trump was “virtually and morally accountable” for the revolt—however not earlier than voting to acquit the man after he was impeached by the Home. Had McConnell chosen to solid a responsible vote—and rallied sufficient of his Republican colleagues to do the identical—Trump may have been barred from ever holding workplace once more.
However, in fact, not solely did McConnell not try this, he went onto to endorse Trump’s 2024 bid for workplace in March, saying “it ought to come as no shock” that he would again the GOP nominee. And he’s proper; it didn’t come as a shock, as a result of regardless of the entire “[Trump is a] despicable human being” enterprise, it’s lengthy been identified that McConnell has no backbone. (Tackett additionally reviews that in between acquitting Trump and endorsing his third run for workplace, McConnell stated, “I can’t consider anyone I’d reasonably be criticized by than this sleazeball. Each time he takes a shot at me, I feel it’s good for my status.”)
Anyway, simply once you thought the Senate minority chief couldn’t get any extra pathetic, in an announcement to the Related Press, he stated, of his feedback trashing Trump: “No matter I’ll have stated about President Trump pales compared to what JD Vance, Lindsey Graham, and others have stated about him, however we’re all on the identical group now.” Which doesn’t truly make McConnell sound higher; it simply confirms that the folks on the higher echelons of the Republican occasion are all shameless hacks.
