Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called his party’s presidential nominee, Donald Trump, a “stupid,” “ill-tempered,” and “despicable human being,” according to his own records. McConnell made the withering assessments in a series of private “personal oral histories” that he gave to Michael Tackett,

What Mitch McConnell has said about Donald Trump in public has infuriated the former president, but what he’s said in private is even more interesting.