Boehner: Trump ‘stepped on their loyalty’ by lying to followers

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“I do not think it was just that he showed up at a rally on January 6,” Boehner told USA Today. “The remarks made all summer about the election are going to be stolen from him, all the follow-up noise that took place after the election – I kept looking for the facts.”

“What struck me especially after the election was that all these people here were loyal to Donald Trump, and he abused them,” Boehner added. “He exercised their loyalty to him by continuing to say things that were simply not true.”

Days after the uprising, Boehner tweeted a condemnation of the attack and denounced the Republican Party, sending an emotional email to an informal group of friends, allies and former assistants he calls ‘Boehnerland’. .

I once said that the party of Lincoln and Reagan no longer wants to sleep. The afternoon nap has become a nightmare for our country. The IDP must wake up. The invasion of our Capitol by a mob incited by lies of some entrusted with power is a disgrace to all who sacrificed to build our Republic.

– John Boehner (@SpeakerBoehner) 7 January 2021

In December, then Attorney General William BarrBill BarrDominion: Former Michigan state senator ‘sows discord in our democracy’ with election fraud claims Hunter Biden says he does not know if Delaware’s laptop was his Gaetz, showed lawmakers nude photos of women he claims slept with: report MORE said the Department of Justice had not discovered any evidence of widespread voter fraud that would change the outcome of the election. Dozens of courts have also dismissed lawsuits that the election was not legal.

In his book, Boehner also remembers the first time he met Trump: during a golf game during a fundraising tour with two insurance executives at the Trump National Golf Club in Westchester, New York, USA Today reports.

Boehner, who was the House minority leader at the time, said he was informed “out of nowhere” that Trump would be the group’s fourth.

“He was very friendly, but in a in-your-face-way-how-they-talk-in-New-York, like I was not used to at all,” Boehner recalled according to USA Today. .

“Direct, hard, intense,” he added.

He wrote that a young assistant to Boehner embarrassed Trump by giving him the wrong name for one of the insurance executives, who asked Trump to pull him down in an exuberant tirade that Boehner called ‘dark’. .

Boehner recalls that Trump called the assistant an ‘idiot’.

“It was more than a shock in New York,” Boehner wrote, according to USA Today. “It was real anger over something very, very small. We then had no idea what the anger would do to our country.”

Boehner also wrote about calls Trump made to the former House speaker for advice early in his presidency. Boehner advised Trump, among other things, to tweet, USA Today reported.

When considering how history would judge the 45th president, Boehner wrote, “Well, I do not think very well.”

Boehner’s comments come days before the release of his memoirs in which the former speaker of the House presented his comments on a number of Washington power players.

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Boehner also calls the claim of election fraud pushed by Trump a “nonsense” lie and says he incited the “bloody uprising” in January “for nothing more than selfish reasons.”