What Paul Ryan should have said:

[FSogol]

What he said:

"There is no moral equivalence between the United States and Russia, which remains hostile to our most basic values and ideals. The United States must be focused on holding Russia accountable and putting an end to its vile attacks on democracy,"

The truth of the matter:

"There is no moral equivalence between the United States and the GOP, which remains hostile to our most basic values and ideals. The United States must be focused on holding Republicans accountable and putting an end to their vile attacks on democracy,"

[dalton99a]

1. Holding Russia accountable:

[FSogol]

2. No bigger empty suit or hypocrite than Paul Ryan.

What a f'ing puke.

[malaise]

3. Here's what Ryan really thought and what he said

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/house-majority-leader-to-colleagues-in-2016-i-think-putin-pays-trump/2017/05/17/515f6f8a-3aff-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.1fb4e828f5ee

KIEV, Ukraine — A month before Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination, one of his closest allies in Congress — House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy — made a politically explosive assertion in a private conversation on Capitol Hill with his fellow GOP leaders: that Trump could be the beneficiary of payments from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy (R-Calif.) said, according to a recording of the June 15, 2016, exchange, which was listened to and verified by The Washington Post. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher is a Californian Republican known in Congress as a fervent defender of Putin and Russia.

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) immediately interjected, stopping the conversation from further exploring McCarthy’s assertion, and swore the Republicans present to secrecy.

[dalton99a]

4. +1. He was one of the coup leaders

[malaise]

5. Precisely