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While Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has endorsed Trump in his presidential re-election bid, the Kentucky Republican had some choice words for him in 2020.

“This despicable human being,” McConnell said to his oral historian in December 2020, “is sitting on this package of relief that the American people desperately need.”

The quotes appear in an upcoming book, “The Price of Power” by Michael Tackett, which was obtained by NBC News and is described as the first definitive biography of McConnell. The quotes were first reported by The Associated Press.

McConnell said in December 2020 that Trump’s behavior after the presidential election was “beyond erratic,” saying he’s promoted “allegations of voter fraud, none of which has been proven.”

McConnell was also concerned that Trump’s actions would cost Republicans one or both Senate seats in Georgia, which Democrats ultimately won. “He is not only — well, he’s stupid as well as being ill-tempered and can’t even figure out where his own best interests lie, and that’s certainly been on full display,” he said.

Trump’s behavior, McConnell continued, “only underscores the good judgment of the American people. They’ve just had enough of the misrepresentations, the outright lies almost on a daily basis, and they fired him. And for a narcissist like him, that’s been really hard to take, and so his behavior since the election has been even worse, by far, than it was before, because he has no filter now at all.”

Asked now about the comments that appear in the book, McConnell said, “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 endorsed Trump for president in March. NBC News has reached out to the Trump campaign for comment.

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