In 'The Price of Power,' McConnell says Trump's MAGA movement is 'completely wrong'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : And later, after the Republican party selected Trump as its nominee in 2024, he also endorsed him.
45% : His exit from his position atop his conference is colored by his fracture from Trump and the direction he has taken the party.
43% : " On Feb. 13, 2021, McConnell gave a floor speech in which he laid blame for the insurrection on Trump.
42% : Despite all of this, in the leadup to the 2020 election, McConnell still appeared at a rally with Trump in Kentucky.
42% : That speech focused largely on the impact that Trump and McConnell had jointly on influencing the federal courts.
39% : As Trump began rising in prominence as a possible nominee in 2016, McConnell described him as "this most unusual nominee." "What I tried to do, since I had candidates in different states dealing with the Trump factor differently, was to keep my mouth shut, because I didn't want to become an issue in a given Senate race," McConnell told his oral historian shortly after the election, according to the book.
38% : Instead, "Trump got right in the middle of it and tried to get Moore elected, and, amazingly enough, Alabama elected a Democrat to the Senate."
34% : Ryan described Trump in the book as an "amoral narcissist.
32% : "I recommended Trump stay out of it," McConnell said.
27% : " Even before the 2020 election, McConnell's relationship with Trump was a rocky one.
16% : McConnell said he believed what Trump did on Jan. 6 was an "impeachable offense.
10% : MORE: Military officials debating speaking out against Trump but wary of retribution: Former Pence adviser The book details the behind-the-scenes relationship between McConnell and then-House Speaker Paul Ryan, who said they "took turns" talking to Trump.
8% : 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.
6% : A look at the term being hurled at Donald Trump "The Price of Power" details McConnell's increasing dissatisfaction with Trump leading up to the 2020 election and in the days that followed.
6% : They call him a threat to democracy: ANALYSIS It was a political calculation McConnell made that differentiated him from some of Trump's more vocal opponents like Rep. Liz Cheney, who lost her primary largely because she dared to challenge Trump.

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