Trump also said republicans should have stood with Cruz on the shutdown over Obamacare.
He said if they had stuck together they would have won.
It’s true.
A colleague in London was watching the BBC and called me in late 2013 to tell me “the republicans were winning!” only to see them a week later go crashing down in defeat when Boehner caved.
The BBC was showing the truth whereas the American media circled the wagons around federal government and became obsessed with painting republicans like Ted Cruz as ‘bomb throwers’.
Had they stuck together they would have defeated Obama and the tone since would have been much different. This is Boehner’s legacy.