Exclusive: John Boehner says Donald Trump 'abused' his loyalists by lying to them Susan Page, USA TODAY Replay Video UP NEXT MARCO ISLAND, Fla. – Former House Speaker John Boehner no longer watches much cable TV news. Noise, he calls it. It was only when aide John Criscuolo texted him a tweet with some raw video attached – "Trump supporters going at it with the police on the steps of the Capitol," it read – that he learned the Congress in which he had served for a quarter-century was under siege by a mob. A mob whose members said they were encouraged by a president from his own party, and one he had sometimes advised.