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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump exploded in rage at Paul Ryan after he denounced Charlottesville white supremacists
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-charlottesville-comments/Ryan tried to explain to Trump that, as president of the United States, he had a duty to condemn neo-Nazis -- but Trump wouldn't hear of it.
"These people love me," Trump told Ryan, according to Woodward and Costa. "These are my people. I can't backstab the people who support me."
Trump infamously claimed after the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally that there were some "very fine people" attending, even though the rally was explicitly marketed as a white nationalist event that featured men carrying tiki torches and chanting, "Jews will not replace us!"
When Ryan confronted Trump over this, the former president reportedly doubled down.
"Well, yeah, there's some bad people," Trump said about the neo-Nazis. "I get that. I'm not for that. I'm against all that. But there's some of those people who are for me. Some of them are good people."
Blue Owl
(49,913 posts)Seriously
Enter stage left
(3,389 posts)TFG is fetid waste.
Whiskeytide
(4,459 posts)know all of this shit? And if not them, who is spilling the beans NOW but apparently kept their mouths shut for 4 years?
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Maybe Ryan just recently told them the story
sop
(9,945 posts)yet he never shared that important bit of information with the public till his book was published. All this Trump insanity was common knowledge long ago.
Whiskeytide
(4,459 posts)
administration knew he was a toxic, incompetent, idiot, rouge president bent on serving himself above all others. We all believed that, of course, but they KNEW. And yet they pretty much remained silent for years.
That is a damning epitaph to this period in history, and all you need to know about the Republican Party. They value power over country. They dont care if America is burned to ashes, as long as they are in charge of the fire department.
OAITW r.2.0
(23,813 posts)Trump was the worst person not to be elected by the popular vote.....ever. W. sucked but we had to re-elect him in 2004 for whatever reason. He proved his stupidity. Trump -twice impeached....should have been a third - time ran out, thank the gods. That's your Party. W.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)Fuck's sake.
ZZenith
(4,109 posts)Its devastating but they need to know it.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)Yes, yes, important work, that.
BigmanPigman
(51,430 posts)Then he had Mary tRump on to discuss Ryan and others who allowed the fucking moron to run over the Constitution in order for them to personally benefit.
Grokenstein
(5,707 posts)What a load of old horseshit. He'd fellate Adolph Hitler for an endorsement.
Eugene
(61,592 posts)Too little and years too late.