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Life after Trump: Paul Ryan Is Now Reportedly Embarrassed by the President and Is Pushing Fox News to Dump Him
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/node/86690
Remember former House Speaker Paul Ryan? I dont.
But a new report from Vanity Fair describing the chaos inside Fox News where Ryan serves as a board member reminded readers that hes still something of a player in conservative politics. And according to the report, written by journalist Gabriel Sherman, Ryan is now, after having given up all his constitutional power, finally interested in standing up to the president.
The report describes the behind-the-scenes crisis emerging at Fox, which has been thrown into turmoil as the Democrats rapid impeachment push knocks the network off-kilter. Most dramatically, that disruption has played out in an on-air feud between hosts Shep Smith and Tucker Carlson. Sherman found that Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott and President Jay Wallace felt compelled to intervene and tell Smith to back off, though a spokesperson for the network denied this claim.
The report continued:
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/09/madness-at-fox-news-as-trump-faces-impeachment-lachlan-murdoch
Of course, Ryan had significant power to stand up to Trump and do something about him in 2017 and 2018, when he was House speaker. But ultimately, he wouldnt have gotten that job in the first place if he wasnt willing to put the interests of the GOP over the interests of the country, which these days is a requirement for party membership.
Zoonart
(11,850 posts)Several Goopers do. That's why they'll throw Schmuck a l'orange overboard. (Notice the hyphen? LOL)
MurrayDelph
(5,293 posts)had always been to fuck up the economy, lay low while his part in fucking it up is forgotten by the <Squirrel!> media, and after the Democrats get in an unfuck it, he can run against the "Tax and Spend Democrats."
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)than he did as Speaker of the House?
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)now he advising fake news to cut t-rump loose.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Indykatie
(3,696 posts)The GOP faces the same dilemna which is why they will be reluctant to separate themselves from Trump.