The New York Times reports:
John Boehner, the Republican former House speaker, issues a stinging denunciation in his new book of Donald J. Trump, saying that the former president “incited that bloody insurrection” by his supporters at the Capitol on Jan. 6 and that the Republican Party has been taken over by “whack jobs.”
The criticism from Mr. Boehner in his book, “On the House: A Washington Memoir,” represents an extraordinary public rebuke by a former speaker of the House toward a former president from his own party and shows how much the Republican Party has shifted since Mr. Boehner left Congress in 2015.
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John Boehner, the Republican former House speaker, sharply rebukes Donald Trump in his new book.
In an excerpt obtained by The New York Times, he says that Trump “incited” the Capitol mob and that “whack jobs” have taken over the Republican Party.https://t.co/6OsHPc8YAL
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 7, 2021