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In the finished book,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/The-Price-of-Power\/Michael-Tackett\/9781668005842\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Price of Power<\/em><\/a>, which hits shelves on October 29, Tackett uncovered several shockingly negative assessments of the ex-president by McConnell, who has publicly expressed his support and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/election-2024\/breaking-mitch-mcconnell-endorses-trump-despite-years-of-abuse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">endorsed him<\/a>\u00a0in the 2024 election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After Trump lost the election in 2020, McConnell congratulated his former Senate colleague President\u00a0Joe Biden\u00a0and warned his fellow Republicans not to challenge the election results. But behind the scenes \u2014 and as Trump tried and failed to overturn the election results \u2014 he apparently couldn\u2019t wait to see the last of Trump:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Privately, he said in his oral history that \u201cit\u2019s not just the Democrats who are counting the days\u201d until Trump left office, and that Trump\u2019s behavior \u201conly underscores the good judgment of the American people. They\u2019ve had just enough of the misrepresentations, the outright lies almost on a daily basis, and they fired him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd for a narcissist like him,\u201d McConnell continued, \u201cthat\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before those Georgia runoffs, McConnell said Trump is \u201cstupid as well as being ill-tempered and can\u2019t even figure out where his own best interests lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>An account of the aftermath of January 6, which had McConnell in a secure location while his aides \u201cbarricaded\u201d in the office, revealed an emotional moment between the former Senate Majority Leader and his staff:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>McConnell then went to his office to address his staff, some of whom had barricaded themselves in the office as rioters banged on their doors. He started to sob softly as he thanked them, Tackett writes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou are my family, and I hate the fact that you had to go through this,\u201d he told them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new biography on Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) exposes new details surrounding his tense relationship with former President Donald Trump. Michael Tackett, deputy Washington bureau chief at the Associated Press, drew from nearly three decades of McConnell\u2019s political career using sources including recorded diaries by the elder statesmen and past interviews. 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