Former House Speaker John Boehner has described his party's presidential nominee as "barely a Republican."

Donald Trump is "not a conservative," Boehner told VICE News in an interview excerpt released Tuesday. "He's barely a Republican. He kind of became a Republican in order to run." 

Still, Boehner said he'd be voting for Trump.

"His ideas, when you can get to them, are frankly more in the direction that I would want the country to go to than Hillary Clinton," he said. "Donald wasn't my first choice, wasn't my second choice. For that matter, he wasn't my third choice. But he's the nominee and I'm going to vote for him."

Boehner resigned in October 2015 after prolonged pressure from Republican conservatives who accused him of failing to fight President Barack Obama on key issues.