Former Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) expelled Chuck Todd
Charles (Chuck) David Todd Fatigue begins in Fauci as top doctor doubts over the effectiveness of the vaccine Blinken warns that it would be a ‘serious mistake’ to change the status of Taiwan ‘by force’ Blinken: China ‘did not do what he should not have done ‘in the early stages of pandemic MORE Sunday after the host of NBC’s “Meet the Press” asked him if he would ever consider being re-elected.
“I’d rather set myself on fire than present myself again,” Boehner
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“Yeah, the only reason I asked the question was because I would expect an answer anyway,” Todd laughs.
Boehner grins and says to Todd, “You are an —. You are an —.”
“I suppose I get it as a compliment,” Todd replies. “I will use it as a compliment.”
The former Speaker has spent several media appearances over the past week promoting his new book “On The House”.
LOOK: @SpeakerBoehner: “I would rather set myself on fire than present again.”@chucktodd: “The only reason I asked the question was because I was expecting just such an answer.”
John Boehner
– Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) 18 April 2021
In excerpts from the book published in an essay earlier this month, Boehner decides what he says are the ‘crazy’ forces that have taken control of the Republican Party and the conservative media landscape that he says pumped oxygen into the worst impulses.
He also told Todd on Sunday that reports of a potential nativist anti-immigration America First Caucus in the House ‘were one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen’.
“Listen, America is a country of immigration,” he said. “We’re been the world’s giant crucible for the last 200 years. And we have to celebrate that we’re this giant crucible.”
Boehner revealed that he voted President Trump
Donald TrumpDC goes to the dogs – Major and Champ, that is to say Biden on refugee shell: ‘We could not do two things at once’ Taylor Greene defends ‘America First’ attempt, and pushes critics back MORE in 2020, but said he was concerned to see how the Republican Party responds to the deadly riots on Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol.
He told USA Today last week that Trump had “trampled on” his supporters’ loyalty by lying to them about the outcome of the 2020 election.
“I don’t think it was just that he showed up at a rally on January 6,” he said. “The comments that have been made all summer about the election are going to be stolen from him, all the successor noise that took place after the election – I kept looking for the facts.”