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EXPLAINED: Mitch mcconnell called trump crazy after capitol attack new book says - The Real Truth

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U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell at the U.S. Capitol in Washington.
The authors report that Mitch McConnell ‘wasn’t sure he was up to the task’ of rebelling against another Republican. Photograph: Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters

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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