“To which my response was, ‘Who’s John Boehner?’”īoehner has levied several attacks against fellow Republicans and former colleagues in his book, which is scheduled for a Tuesday release. He suggested that I do something that was anatomically impossible,” Cruz said at the time. “You know yesterday, John Boehner made some news. You can blame the wine for the expletives.”Ĭruz addressed the incident during his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Fla. I wear with pride his drunken, bloviated scorn.Ĭruz had previously hit back at Boehner in February after Axios reported that the former GOP leader in the audio recording of his book, “On The House: A Washington Memoir,” went off-script multiple times and at one point told Cruz to “go f- yourself.”īoehner had tweeted a picture of himself holding a glass of wine while recording the book, writing, “Poured myself a glass of something nice to read my audiobook. “Please don’t cry,” the Texas senator added, referencing multiple instances from Boehner’s tenure in which the former Speaker became emotional in public. I wear with pride his drunken, bloviated scorn.”
“It’s really, it’s unfortunate,” he added to CBS’s John Dickerson.Ĭruz shared the clip, writing, “The Swamp is unhappy.
“Perfect symbol, you know, of getting elected, making a lot of noise, draw a lot of attention to yourself, raise a lot of money, which means you’re gonna go make more noise, raise more money,” Boehner said in the interview. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Friday bashed former Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) for what he called “drunken, bloviated scorn” in the latest tit for tat between the two GOP figures.Ĭruz in a tweet responded to a clip from a “CBS Sunday Morning” interview scheduled to air this weekend in which Boehner said of Cruz, “I don’t beat anybody up, it’s not really my style, except for that jerk.”
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