Sen. Mike Lee is “livid” that former House Speaker John Boehner called his colleague Ted Cruz “Lucifer.”
“It’s really vile stuff,” the Utah Republican said Thursday evening on Mark Levin’s radio show. “I am appalled that John Boehner would do this.”
Lee said he has held his tongue for years about Boehner, whom he described as a pillar of the “establishment,” because of his respect for Boehner and his former position as speaker of the House.
“The fact that he has done this is appalling. And he should be ashamed of himself. I demand that he apologize,” Lee continued, adding that this is also a “wakeup call” to the American people that “[Donald] Trump is the establishment and that he and Boehner are golfing and texting buddies.”
Lee is one of three senators to have endorsed Cruz, who is often described as the “most hated man in the Senate.” He also trails Trump, a billionaire businessman from New York, by over 400 delegates in the race to the GOP nomination.
During an event at Stanford University on Wednesday evening, Boehner decribed Cruz as “Lucifer in the flesh.” “I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life,” he added.
On Thursday, in an interview with CNN, New York Rep. Peter King went a step further, by saying Cruz gives Lucifer a “bad name.”
Asked why these politicians are attacking Cruz, Lee argued that while Cruz is fighting for a conservative agenda, Boehner and King help to enable liberals to grow the government.
“Pete King, much like John Boehner, has helped increase the size, and the scope and the cost, and the reach, and the intrusiveness of the federal government,” Lee said.
