Mitch McConnell privately said Democrats would ‘take care of the son of a bitch for us’ by impeaching Trump for the January 6 riot: book

• The New York Times published previously unreported private remarks from Mitch McConnell on Thursday.
• After January 6, McConnell reportedly said impeachment would “take care” of Trump.
• “The Democrats are going to take care of the son of a bitch for us,” he said, per NYT.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell privately supported Democrats impeaching former President Donald Trump for a second time despite McConnell’s decision to vote for his acquittal, according to The New York Times.

“The Democrats are going to take care of the son of a bitch for us,” McConnell said of the House’s 2021 impeachment proceedings, according to Times reporters Alex Burns and Jonathan Martin.

The reporting comes from Burns and Martin’s forthcoming book, “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America’s Future,” which is based on hundreds of interviews with lawmakers and federal officials, as well as contemporaneous documents through the 2020 election up through the aftermath of the January 6 insurrection.

While McConnell ended up backtracking and voted to acquit Trump, the private comments reported by the Times are much harsher than anything the Republican leader had previously said about the former president on the record.

“If this isn’t impeachable, I don’t know what is,” McConnell told two of his long-time aides over Chick-fil-A back in Kentucky on January 10, according to Burns and Martin.

Later explaining why he voted to acquit Trump despite believing the former president incited the riot that day, McConnell told a friend that breaking from his party was not what got him into power in the first place.

“I didn’t get to be leader by voting with five people in the conference,” McConnell said, according to the Times.