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I voted for Donald Trump," Boehner told Time Magazine in an interview to promote his memoir -- "On the House" -- which is officially released on Tuesday. "I thought that his policies, by and large, mirrored the policies that I believed in. I thought the choices for the Supreme Court were top notch. At the end of the day, who gets nominated to the federal courts is really the most important thing a President does."
Rather than some sort of speak-truth-to-power hero, Boehner is typical of the broader Republican approach to Trump: Hold your nose and vote for him because, uh, judges. Boehner is not the exception to the Republican rule. He is the rule. He was willing to overlook Trump's weaponizing of race and gender, his decidedly un-conservative approach to debt and deficit, his open disdain at the idea of being "presidential," all because Trump nominated conservative judges to the Supreme Court. That's the deal Republicans made with themselves way back when Trump won the nomination in 2016. Boehner was no different.
Under the enemy-of-my-enemy-is-my-friend theory of politics, John Boehner has become Democrats' favorite Republican in the last few years.
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In other words, John Boehner first and foremost wanted to garner attention for his book...