Former Speaker of the House John Boehner
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BoehnerJohn Andrew Boehner The Hill’s Morning Report – Biden: We make an agreement on infrastructure and taxes. Memo: Boehner’s explosions don’t move today’s GOP. The Hill’s 12:30 Report – Presented by ExxonMobil – Pence sets the stage for MORE 2024 made admission to his new memoirs “On the House: A Washington Memoir,” according to the New York Times.
Boehner, who was first elected to Congress in 1991, writes in his book that former Rep. Tom DeLay (Texas), who was the No. 2 Republican in the House at the time, led a politically motivated campaign against Clinton during the time. adventure of the president with an intern, Monica Lewinsky.
The House voted to charge Clinton with two articles, which had lied to a grand jury and obstructed justice.
But Boehner said it was really just DeLay’s fault.
“In my view, Republicans accused him of one reason and only one reason, because a Tom DeLay strongly recommended it to us,” Boehner writes, according to the Times. “Tom believed that Clinton’s removal would win us all these seats in the House, it would be a great victory politically and he convinced enough members and the Republican Party base that this was true.”
“I was on board at the time,” Boehner continues. “I will not pretend otherwise. But now I’m sorry. I’m sorry I didn’t fight. “
Clinton ended up being condemned by the Senate and the 1998 midterm elections were a disappointment to Republicans, who lost five seats in the House.
The election took place in the midst of Clinton’s impeachment process.
The excerpt is the latest from Boehner’s book, in which he does not retain his feelings about his time in Washington and his views on the Republican Party.
In an excerpt previously published by the Times Thursday, Blamed Boehner President Trump
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Trump “incited that bloody insurgency for nothing more than selfish reasons, perpetuated by the nonsense he had been palpable since he lost a fair election last November,” Boehner wrote.