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NEWS ALERT: McConnell throws Trump under the bus, condemns MAGA movement, GOP Senators voice outrage! October 26, 2024 From ABC News: For years, Republican Leader Mitch McConnell’s distaste for former President Donald Trump has been characterized through calculated restraint, but in a new biography on McConnell set to be released next week, McConnell criticizes the former president in no uncertain terms, at varying points calling Trump “stupid,” “ill-tempered,” a “narcissist” and a “despicable human being.” With less than two weeks until an Election Day that could see Trump return to the White House, McConnell, who has served as his party’s leader in the Senate for a record-breaking 17 years, says Trump’s MAGA movement has “done a lot of damage” to the Republican Party and turned it into something that former President Ronald Reagan “wouldn’t recognize.” ABC News has obtained an advance copy of the book “The Price of Power” by Associated Press Deputy Washington Bureau Chief Michael Tackett. The book offers a thorough treatment of McConnell’s life starting with his early polio affliction and ending with his looming departure from leadership after the upcoming election. His exit from his position atop his conference is colored by his fracture from Trump and the direction he has taken the party. “I know I can’t influence the broad Republican Party, but I have influence here, and I’m going to use it because I think this is important to the country, and I think the MAGA movement is completely wrong,” McConnell says in the book. In the book, McConnell reportedly outlines his “dissatisfaction with Trump” leading up to and following the 2020 election. CNN also reported on McConnell’s upcoming book, and quoted an excerpt in which he trashed Trump’s followers. “Trump is appealing to people who haven’t been as successful as other people and providing an excuse for that, that these more successful people have somehow been cheated, and you don’t deserve to think of yourself as less successful because things haven’t been fair,” McConnell reportedly stated in the book. “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,” McConnell claimed in a statement to both ABC News and CNN. In early March, McConnell announced his endorsement for Trump after realizing it was clear he would be the Republican nominee for 2024. “It is abundantly clear that former President Trump has earned the requisite support of Republican voters to be our nominee for President of the United States. It should come as no surprise that as nominee, he will have my support,” McConnell said in his endorsement in March. “During his Presidency, we worked together to accomplish great things for the American people including tax reform that supercharged our economy and a generational change of our federal judiciary – most importantly, the Supreme Court,” he added. Now, less than two weeks ahead of the presidential election, McConnell comes out with a book that not only throws Trump completely under the bus, but insults MAGA supporters as well.