Boehner blasts Trump, saying he incited that bloody insurrection
Boehner blasts Trump, saying he incited that bloody insurrection
In his new book, John Boehner, the Republican former House speaker, sharply rebukes the former president for his role in the mob violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Maggie Haberman, New York Times
April 7, 2021
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In the book, an excerpt from which was obtained by The New York Times, Mr. Boehner writes that Mr. Trump’s “refusal to accept the result of the election not only cost Republicans the Senate but led to mob violence,” adding, “It was painful to watch.”
At another point, he writes, “I’ll admit I wasn’t prepared for what came after the election Trump refusing to accept the results and stoking the flames of conspiracy that turned into violence in the seat of our democracy, the building over which I once presided.”
He adds: “Watching it was scary, and sad. It should have been a wake-up call for a return to Republican sanity.” Nodding to the divisions between the parties in Congress now, he writes, “Whatever they end up doing, or not doing, none of it will compare to one of the lowest points of American democracy that we lived through in January 2021.”
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