Former home speaker John Boehner
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In an interview days before the release of his book “On the House: A Washington Memoir”, BoehnerJohn Andrew Boehner Harry Reid responds to Boehner book excerpt: ‘We didn’t mince words’ Cruz on Boehner:’ I proudly wear his drunken, bloated disdain ‘Boehner on Clinton’s deposition:’ I’m sorry I didn’t fought against ‘MORE told USA Today he decided to speak out after the January 6 attack on the Capitol to hold Trump accountable for his part in the uprising.
“I don’t think it was just about appearing at a rally on January 6,” Boehner told USA Today. “The comments made about the election all summer would be stolen from him, all the follow-up noise that happened after the election – I kept looking for the facts.”
“What struck me, especially after the election, was, here are all these people who are loyal to Donald Trump, and he abused them,” added Boehner. “He has surpassed their loyalty to him by continuing to say things that just weren’t true.”
Days after the uprising, Boehner tweeted condemning the attack and denounced the Republican Party, sending an emotional email to an informal group of friends, allies and former aides he calls ‘Boehnerland’.
I once said that Lincoln and Reagan’s company are taking a nap. The nap has become a nightmare for our country. The GOP needs to wake up. The mob invasion of our Capitol, instigated by the lies of some entrusted to power, is a disgrace to all who sacrificed themselves to build our Republic.
– John Boehner (@SpeakerBoehner) January 7, 2021
In December, then Attorney General William Barr
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In his book, Boehner also recalled the first time he met Trump: during a game of golf on a fundraising trip with two insurance executives at Trump National Golf Club in Westchester, New York, USA Today reported.
Boehner, who was the House’s minority leader at the time, said he was informed “out of the blue” that Trump would be the fourth of the group.
“He was very friendly, but on an in-your-face, this-is-how-they-talk-in-New-York way I wasn’t used to at all,” recalled Boehner, according to USA Today.
“Instant, loud, intense,” he added.
He wrote that a young assistant to Boehner embarrassed Trump by giving him the wrong name for one of the insurance leaders, prompting Trump to dress him in a expletive tirade that Boehner called “ dark. ”
Boehner recalled Trump calling the assistant an “idiot.”
“This was more than a New York blunder,” Boehner wrote, according to USA Today. This was real anger over something very, very small. At the time, we had no idea what that anger would do to our country. ‘
Boehner also wrote about phone calls Trump made early in his presidency to the former House Speaker for advice. USA Today, among others, reported that Boehner advised Trump to stop tweeting.
Thinking about how history would rate the 45th president, Boehner wrote, “Well, I don’t think so well.”
Boehner’s comments come days before the release of his memoir, in which the former House Speaker commented on a number of Washington power players.
In the book, Boehner mentioned Sen. Ted Cruz
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Boehner also called the election fraud claim pushed by Trump a “nonsense” lie, saying he instigated the “bloody uprising” in January “for nothing but selfish reasons.”