{"id":121061,"date":"2021-04-13T22:58:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T22:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=121061"},"modified":"2021-04-13T22:58:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T22:58:45","slug":"despite-book-condemning-trump-and-gop-john-boehner-says-he-voted-for-trump-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/politics\/despite-book-condemning-trump-and-gop-john-boehner-says-he-voted-for-trump-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite Book Condemning Trump And GOP, John Boehner Says He Voted For Trump In 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), who is currently hawking his new memoir, revealed to Time magazine that he voted for\u00a0Donald Trump in the 2020 election. <\/span><\/p>\n

Boehner has received largely favorable coverage for his book\u2019s scathing rebukes of some Republicans including his characterization of the then-president inciting\u00a0<\/span>the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, which Boehner wrote was \u201cperpetuated by the bullshit he\u2019d been shoveling since he lost a fair election the previous November.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

However,\u00a0Boehner told Time in an interview published Tuesday that he supported Trump\u2019s reelection.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI voted for Donald Trump. I thought that his policies, by and large, mirrored the policies that I believed in,\u201d <\/span>Boehner said<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI thought the choices for the Supreme Court were top notch. At the end of the day, who gets nominated to the federal courts is really the most important thing a president does,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

Boehner\u2019s <\/span>scorn for some fellow Republicans<\/span>\u00a0\u2014 including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, whom Boehner describes as a nemesis inflicting harm on the Republican Party \u2014 and his condemnation of the Capitol riot\u00a0have garnered the most attention during his press tour, giving some readers the impression that Boehner is a disaffected conservative.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For example, Susan Page, Washington bureau chief for USA Today, called Boehner\u2019s book <\/span>\u201can extraordinary rebuke of the current-day GOP, an excoriation without precedent in modern times.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But Tuesday\u2019s revelation he supported Trump\u2019s reelection shows Boehner is not at odds with the GOP at all \u2015 not substantively, at least. More importantly, it shows he supports the anti-democratic practices that have become central to the GOP\u2019s success. When Boehner cast his ballot for Trump in 2020, <\/span>Trump had already waged a monthslong assault on voting rights<\/span> and he\u2019d been <\/span>impeached for trying to extort Ukraine to help his reelection<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The former speakers\u2019s support of Trump shouldn\u2019t come as a surprise. Boehner left Congress and the national spotlight in 2015, but he remained a public Trump supporter throughout the president\u2019s term.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In a 2019 interview,\u00a0Boehner said, \u201cDonald Trump, in my view, by and large, has done the right things.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

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