tolerating with clenched teeth for the last year of 2020, the last year of his term, he was looking forward to him basically going down, never being a political force again to give mitch mcconnell any headaches. they had had a very tense relationship as i ve reported with my colleague philip rucker throughout 2020. they broke up formally when mitch mcconnell said on november 14th that he congratulated vice president, former vice president biden as being the president-elect, rightfully elected fair and square. donald trump called him and said how dare you, what are you doing? you re disloyal, and that was the end of it. on january 6th, finally mcconnell was feeling some elation that he wasn t going to have to deal with this guy anymore because he had ruined his legacy by lighting the match that started the riot in