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In April 2021, as media outlets started previewing former U.S. House Speaker John Boehner's new upcoming audiobook On The House, a clip started circulating on social media that supposedly captured Boehner telling Texas U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz to go fuck yourself: This is a genuine audio clip of Boehner. It comes from a longer audio excerpt that was originally shared by Axios reporter Jonathan Swan. The full recording can be heard at the bottom of this article. On Feb. 25, 2021, Boehner posted a picture on Twitter that showed him recording part of his audiobook while holding a glass of wine. In that post, Boehner wrote that you can blame the wine for the expletives. The following day, Axios reported on some of the expletives. The news outlet said Boehner went off script for a few moments while recording this book, including one aside in which he said, Oh, and Ted Cruz, go fuck yourself. Axios reported: On April 2, 2021, as media outlets started to publish excerpts of Boehner's upcoming book, Swan posted an audio clip confirming that Boehner had truly issued the curse-laden insult at Cruz: While this is certainly a genuine audio clip of Boehner insulting Cruz, we're not entirely certain if it made it into the final version of the audiobook. We reached out to Swan for clarification and we will update this article accordingly. Boehner's book contains a few other choice words for Cruz. In an excerpt published by Politico, for example, Boehner writes: Cruz responded to reports of Boehner's insults on Twitter in March 2021. He retweeted the following message on April 2, after the audio clip went viral:
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