Former speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) reprimanded Chuck Todd
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“I’d rather set myself on fire than run back to my job,” Boehner
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“You know, the only reason I asked that question is because I expected at least one of those answers,” Todd laughed.
Boehner grinned and said to Todd, “You’re as —. You’re as —. ‘
“I suppose I get that as a compliment,” Todd replied. “I’ll take that as a sneaky compliment.”
The former Speaker has made several media appearances over the past week to promote his new book “On The House”.
WATCH: @RTLnews: “I’d rather set myself on fire than run to the office again.”@Seattle_News: “The only reason I asked that question is because I expected an answer just like that.”
John Boehner
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In excerpts from the book published in an essay earlier this month, Boehner denounces what he says are the “crazy” forces that have taken control of the Republican Party and the conservative media landscape that he believes has been pumping oxygen into the worst impulses. .
He also told Todd on Sunday that reports of a potential nativist anti-immigration America First Caucus in the House was “one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen.”
“Listen, America is an immigration country,” he said. “We have been the world’s gigantic melting pot for the past 200 years. And we must celebrate being this gigantic melting pot.”
Boehner made his voice known President Trump
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He told USA Today last week that Trump “ switched all the loyalty of his supporters ” by lying to them about the results of the 2020 election.
“I don’t think it was just about appearing at a rally on January 6,” he said. “The comments made about the election all summer would be stolen from him, all the follow-up noise that came up after the election – I kept looking for the facts.”