“Congratulations President-elect @JoeBiden,” Boehner
The Ohio Republican attached a photo of him and Biden together.
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Congratulations President-elect @JoeBiden. I know you’re sincere in your desire to be a president for all Americans, and I know you’ve got the tools and the heart to get it done. #Laetarepic.twitter.com/ZHoZ43AhyK John Boehner (@SpeakerBoehner) January 7, 2021
Boehner served as Speaker for more than four years during the Obama administration, when Biden was the vice president.
Congress affirmed Biden’s victory early Thursday morning after a pro-Trump mob broke into the Capitol the day before, leaving the building vandalized and at least four dead in its wake.
“I had a long conversation with him,” Inhofe told the outlet. “He said, ‘After all the things I’ve done for [Trump].’ ”
While those comments came before the mob descended on the Capitol on Wednesday while a joint session of Congress met to certify the votes, Inhofe added to Tulsa World on Wednesday that he believed Trump “should have shown more disdain for the rioters” who swarmed the building calling on lawmakers not to certify the election results.
“I don’t want to say he should have apologized that’s not exactly accurate but he should have expressed more disdain,” Inhofe said of the president.
Wednesday marked the most drastic action the platforms have taken against Trump’s accounts.
The move was triggered by a one-minute video Trump posted urging his supporters who forced their way into the Capitol to go home, but in the video he also repeated unsubstantiated claims about widespread election fraud.
The video was removed by Facebook, Twitter and YouTube by early Wednesday evening.
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Trump followed up with a similar text post on Facebook and Twitter, which was also later removed before the platforms locked Trump’s account.
Amid the suspension of his account, Trump issued a statement shared on Twitter by Dan Scavino, the White House deputy chief of staff for communications, acknowledging the end of his term.