Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Thursday defended comments he made about Donald Trump after the 2020 presidential election, arguing “whatever I may have said about President Trump pales in comparison to what JD Vance, Lindsey Graham, and others have said about him.” The Associated Press reported on McConnell’s harsh criticism of the former president following his defeat in the 2020 presidential election and subsequent efforts to overturn the result. “Mitch McConnell said after the 2020 election that then-President Donald Trump was ‘stupid as well as being ill-tempered,’ a ‘des…