Thread: Trump has been 'complete disaster': Boehner

Trump has been 'complete disaster': Boehner

Fri May 26, 2017 | 2:14pm EDT
By Pete Schroeder | WASHINGTON

President Donald Trump's time in office has been a "complete disaster" aside from foreign affairs, fellow Republican and former U.S. House Speaker John Boehner said at an energy conference.

The former Ohio congressman said he has been friends with Trump for 15 years but never thought he would occupy the White House.

And while he praised Trump's aggressive steps to challenge the Islamic State militant group and other moves in international affairs, he was highly critical of the president's other early efforts.

"Everything else he's done has been a complete disaster," Boehner said at the energy conference in Houston on Wednesday, according to the energy publication Rigzone. "He's still learning how to be president."

A spokesman for Boehner confirmed the comments.

Boehner, who resigned from Congress in 2015, was also highly critical of efforts by the administration and his former Republican colleagues in Congress to advance sweeping healthcare and tax reform plans.

He said Republicans should never have tried to "repeal and replace" the Affordable Care Act, even after the House narrowly passed an overhaul measure. The Senate is considering its own version of the package.

And he dismissed tax reform efforts, which form a cornerstone of the Republican policy agenda, as "just a bunch of happy talk."

While Boehner's successor, Speaker Paul Ryan, tries to include a border adjustment tax, a tax on imports, as a key piece of any tax code overhaul, Boehner declared it "deader than a doornail" amid opposition from fellow Republicans and the White House.

Boehner also supported efforts to "get to the bottom" of any potential interactions between Trump associates and the Russian government. However, he described any calls to impeach Trump as the purview of "the crazy left-wing Democratic colleagues of mine."

Democratic Representative Al Green has formally introduced articles of impeachment for Trump, but such an effort has not been embraced by most Democratic lawmakers as the investigation continues.

(Reporting by Pete Schroeder; Editing by Jonathan Oatis)

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-us...-idUSKBN18M2AO

Boehner lost his credibility a long time ago. He was a "disaster" for everyone but Obama until he was driven out. That Reuters quotes him in yet another hit piece against the sitting President shows the depths that the media will descend. IMO

LOL!! Poor Boehner. It's so hard to be "out" and accept the fact that someone who actually knows how to fix our country is in office and actually fixing our country. Draining the Swamp isn't easy or pretty, but you can't expect someone who didn't even know he was in the Swamp to begin with to understand when things are as bad as they are now thanks to people like Boehner, you have to tear up the street which can look like a "disaster", but is really just part of the process to fix it and do it right.

TEAR IT UP, MR. PRESIDENT!!