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I just know he let/allowed Devin Nunes to rain ruin over the House Intel Committee.
Paul Ryan claims he personally stops Trump from creating tragedy
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By
Tommy Christopher -
August 7, 2018
Ryan's cowardice runs even deeper than we knew.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) has become a symbol of moral cowardice in the Trump era, but he recently made a claim that was shocking in its utter abdication of leadership, even for him.
In a lengthy New York Times profile, Ryan tried to defend his silence in the face of nearly every Trump outrage, claiming that he tells Trump what he thinks in private.
Ryan told interviewer Mark Leibovich that I can look myself in the mirror at the end of the day and say I avoided that tragedy, I avoided that tragedy, I avoided that tragedy, through his private counsel of Trump.
But when Leibovich asked Ryan to elaborate on which tragedies he has prevented Trump from inflicting, Ryan replied, No, I dont want to do that
Thats more than I usually say.
Ryans claim is, on its face, highly disturbing. Even if its true that Ryan has magically been able to talk Trump out of inflicting tragedies on the country, Ryan should be removing him from office, not keeping those tragedies a secret and supporting the guy who thinks them up.
But Ryans and Trumps record tells a different story entirely.
After Ryan acknowledged Trumps textbook racism during the presidential campaign, he refused to call Trump out by name for praising Nazis, one of whom killed a young woman in Charlottesville. Ryans response to that tragedy was to be dragged into reluctantly saying Trump could do better......................................
DFW
(54,379 posts)Trump would have been impeached long before now.
Maybe Ryan has prevented some horrible Trump initiatives from going any further than Trump's warped imagination (it's always worse than we think), but the ones he has been complicit on are awful enough to call him out on.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Why should anyone believe you now?
kozar
(2,116 posts)The smell of RepublCon fear in the morning and watching these little worms squirm when they find out that aren't holding the magnifying glass and that Sun is getting DAMN HOT.
Koz