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Mitch McConnell said Trump 'put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger' on January 6 and was 'pretty thoroughly discredited' by the attack, book says
Trump and McConnell at an event at the White House in November 2019.
Trump and McConnell at an event at the White House in November 2019.Drew Angerer/Getty Images
  • McConnell was so happy after January 6 that he thought Trump had been discredited.

  • He said after the attack that he put a gun to his head and killed himself.

  • McConnell said that Trump is despicable.

The Senate majority leader was said to be optimistic that the riot had discredited the former president.

McConnell told the New York Times reporter that Trump was thoroughly discredited by the attack.

According to an excerpt from This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future, a forthcoming book from Martin and fellow Times reporter Alex Burns, that was reported by the Washington Post on Monday.

McConnell said that the man put a gun to his head and killed himself.

McConnell asked Martin what he heard about the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, hoping to find out if members of Trump's cabinet were interested in removing the former president.

McConnell called Trump a despicable person in a meeting with staffers late into the evening after the attack, according to the book.

McConnell backed down from the idea of impeaching Trump after the Electoral College affirmed the election of Joe Biden.

McConnell told a friend that he didn't get to be leader by voting with five other people.

McConnell said on the floor that if Trump were still in office, he would have carefully considered whether the House managers proved their charges. The president is not eligible for a conviction.

A spokesman for McConnell wouldn't speak to the Post.

The original article is on Business Insider.

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