Jane Mayer: ‘McConnell Has Hated Trump from the Start’

‘There’s one theme that runs really through McConnell’s entire career, which is, he will do what’s in his self-interest’

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MAYER: "That sounds exactly right, from what I’m hearing from my reporting. I interviewed John Yarmouth, who is the congressman from Louisville, Kentucky, who’s known McConnell for decades. And he said, McConnell has hated Trump from the start, basically, and he’s told people so. But he’s just kept his mouth shut while he could get what he could out of Trump. And so they kind of held hands and held their noses. And, you know, he thought that — I mean, the whole concede of the Republican Party’s establishment wing through these last four years has been that they could kind of control Trump and get what they wanted out of him, exploit him and somehow ignore the forces that he was unleashing of chaos. And that began to fall apart after the election. McConnell took six weeks before he acknowledged that Biden won, so he continued to kind of humor Trump, as Trump began to lie about winning the election. And he kept his mouth shut in large part, according to the reporting I’ve done, because he so much wanted to win those two Senate seats in Georgia.” 

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