By Mychael Schnell
TheHill
April 12, 2021
Former House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said former President Trump “stepped all over their loyalty” when he peddled claims of voter fraud to his followers in the months following the 2020 election.
In an interview days before the release of his book “On the House: A Washington Memoir,” Boehner told USA Today that he decided to speak out after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol to hold Trump accountable for his part in the insurrection.
“I don’t think it was just about him showing up at a rally on Jan. 6th,” Boehner told USA Today. “The comments that were made all summer about the election was going to be stolen from him, all the follow-up noise that occurred after the election — I kept looking for the facts.”