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Senators flummoxed, ‘horrified’ by House leadership vacuum Senate rankings: The 5 seats most likely to flip This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Trump reportedly wrote a $100,000 check to the Congressional Leadership Fund, a GOP super-PAC linked with Boehner, in 2012.īoehner and Cruz notably clashed in 2013 over defunding ObamaCare, with the former Speaker calling Cruz “a jackass” for leading a government shutdown during the standoff. “Donald Trump has been funding John Boehner, and he has also been funding Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. “He allowed his inner Trump to come out,” he said. “Truth of the matter is, I don’t know the man. I’ve met John Boehner two or three times in my life.”Ĭruz also linked Boehner with GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump and Democratic leadership in Congress. “I’ve never worked with John Boehner,” he said. “I get along with almost everyone. But I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life.”Ĭruz on Thursday dismissed Boehner’s vitriol, noting he barely crossed paths with the former lawmaker in Congress. “I have Democrat friends and Republican friends,” he said. The Satanic Temple seeks “to be directed by the human conscience to undertake noble pursuits guided by the individual will,” according to its website.įormer Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Wednesday said that Cruz is “Lucifer in the flesh” during remarks at Stanford University.

“It grows tedious when pedophile priests and loathsome politicians are conveniently dismissed as Satanic, even as they spew Biblical verse and prostrate themselves before the cross, recruiting the Christian faithful. Satanists will have nothing to do with them.” “Cruz’s failures of reason, compassion, decency and humanity are products of his Christian pandering, if not an actual Christian faith,” Satanic Temple spokesman Lucien Greaves said on Thursday, according to The Friendly Atheist. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) after the presidential candidate was compared to Lucifer this week. A leading Satanist group is trying to distance itself from Sen.

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