John Boehner unloads on Trump: A ‘complete disaster’

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Posted on AllSides May 27, 2017

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Former House speaker John A. Boehner continued a streak of remarkable post-office candor during a Wednesday appearance at a Houston energy conference, telling a luncheon audience that President Trump’s term has — foreign policy aside — been a “complete disaster.”

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