Boehner Says Trump Incited ‘That Bloody Insurrection’

Former House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) continued his attacks on the Republican Party in a New York Times book excerpt, accusing former President Trump of inciting “that bloody insurrection for nothing more than selfish reasons.”

Writes Boehner: “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 added: “Watching it was scary, and sad. It should have been a wake-up call for a return to Republican sanity… 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.”