First, Mayer discovered that a recent anonymous $250,000 gift to the McConnell Center, a shrine/academic center at the U of Louisville, was in fact from the wife of a former aide of his whom McConnell helped get appointed to a federal judgeship.— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) April 22, 2020
“Three days before Jones’ death, Jones and his sons sent the 2nd of two scorching letters to McConnell…They called on him not to be ‘a bystander’ and to use his “constitutional authority to protect the nation from Trump’s incoherent and incomprehensible international actions…’”— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) April 22, 2020
"Third, Mayer discovered McConnell’s father was embroiled in a huge racial discrimination case while working in PR at DuPont. NAACP lawyer: ‘The leadership at that plant seemed to define racism. There was a plantation system in which the black employees did the hardest jobs...."— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) April 22, 2020
Fourth, Mayer is the first to confirm that McConnell’s first marriage dissolved amid accusations of infidelity on his part. This, after he had won his first election in Louisville by drawing attention to the contrast btwn his own secure family and his opponent’s recent divorce.— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) April 22, 2020
Fifth, Mayer highlights something that has gotten far too little attention: one of Mitch's biggest donors is Joe Craft, CEO of Alliance Resource Partners, a staunchly anti-union coal company. Craft’s wife, Kelly Craft, is now….the United States Ambassador to the United Nations.— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) April 22, 2020
" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js">“Mitch is kidding himself if he thinks he’ll be remembered for anything other than Trump. He will be remembered as the Trump facilitator.” --@stuartpstevens, longtime GOP strategist for Romney et al— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) April 22, 2020
But the last word goes to Mayer, who comes to the same conclusion I did after spending a year reporting and writing "The Cynic." It's a bleak one. pic.twitter.com/ZvZQKALL8z— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) April 22, 2020
"A previously unseen log of correspondence shows that McConnell edited the draft, refusing to accept any of the others’ proposed changes. He was dead set against designating U.S. voting systems as “critical infrastructure” or urging election officials to seek assistance DHS...."— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) April 22, 2020
Finally, "the others signed off on McConnell draft. It was so indecipherable that neither the public nor election officials learned until after election that Russia targeted voting systems in all 50 states. 'The letter was nothing like what Obama wanted. It was very, very weak.'”— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) April 22, 2020