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For months after the Jan. 6, 2021, rampage at the Capitol, the damaged window of Mitch McConnell's office was left unrepaired, a graphic reminder of the moment when one of the rioters bashed the fortified glass with a flagpole. McConnell, the Kentucky Republican who was the Senate majority leader at the time, professed his disgust at what happened, calling it "further evidence of Donald Trump's complete unfitness for office."

According to "The Price of Power," a new biography by Michael Tackett, McConnell already despised Trump, calling him "not very smart, irascible, nasty" and a "despicable human being." But a month later, when presented with the opportunity to convict Trump at his second impeachment trial for what McConnell declared to be "as close to an impeachable offense as you can imagine," he refused to take it. A conviction could have disqualified Trump from holding office again, but McConnell wasn't ready to cast Trump into the political wilderness, at least not yet.

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