Mitch McConnell called Trump ‘crazy’ after Capitol attack, new book says
by Martin Pengelly in New York from US news | The Guardian on (#63WTF)
Rachael Bade and Karoun Demirjian's Unchecked reports the Senate Republican leader vowed never to speak to Trump again
The Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, said Donald Trump was crazy" and vowed never to speak to him again after the Capitol attack - then voted both to call Trump's impeachment unconstitutional and to acquit the former president in his second Senate trial.
McConnell's deliberations are reported in a forthcoming book, Unchecked: The Untold Story Behind Congress's Botched Impeachments of Donald Trump, by Rachael Bade of Politico and Karoun Demirjian of the Washington Post. An extract was published on Wednesday.
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