Former home speaker John Boehner
John Andrew Boehner The Hill’s Morning Report – Biden: Let’s Deal On Infrastructure, Taxes The Memo: Boehner’s Blast Doesn’t Move The Current GOP The Hill’s 12:30 Report – Presented By ExxonMobil – Pence Sets The Tone For 2024 MORE (R-Ohio) says he regrets not fighting the impeachment of former President Clinton.
BoehnerJohn Andrew Boehner The Hill’s Morning Report – Biden: Let’s Deal On Infrastructure, Taxes The Memo: Boehner’s Blast Doesn’t Move The Current GOP The Hill’s 12:30 Report – Presented By ExxonMobil – Pence Sets The Tone For 2024 MORE made the confession in his new memoir “On the House: A Washington Memoir,” according to The New York Times.
Boehner, who was first elected to Congress in 1991, writes in his book that former Rep. Tom DeLay (Texas), who was the No. 2 Republican in the House at the time, led a politically motivated campaign against Clinton during the president’s then-affair with an intern, Monica Lewinsky.
The House voted to charge Clinton, on the basis of two articles, that he lied to a grand jury and obstructed justice.
But Boehner said it was really just because of DeLay.
“In my opinion, Republicans impeached him for one reason and one reason only – because it was strongly recommended to us by one Tom DeLay,” Boehner writes, according to the Times. “Tom believed that ousting Clinton would get us all these House seats, would be a big win politically, and he convinced enough of the membership and the GOP base that this was true.”
“I was on board at the time,” continues Boehner. ‘I will not argue otherwise. But I regret it now. I’m sorry I didn’t fight it. “
Clinton was ultimately not condemned by the Senate, and the 1998 midterm elections disappointed Republicans, who lost five seats in the House.
The election took place in the middle of the impeachment process for Clinton.
The excerpt is the last to come out of Boehner’s book, in which he does not suppress his feelings about his time in Washington and his views on the GOP.
In an excerpt previously published by the Times on Thursday, Blamed Boehner President Trump
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Trump “instigated that bloody uprising for nothing but selfish reasons, perpetuated by the nonsense he’d been creating since losing a fair election last November,” Boehner wrote.