Former House Speaker Paul Ryan says a lot of Republicans wanted to impeach Trump after January 6

[brooklynite]

Former House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Wednesday that more House Republicans would have voted to impeach former President Donald Trump after the January 6 Capitol riot if they'd had the "guts" to do so.

Ryan made the remarks at a small reception at a hotel in Florence, South Carolina, while campaigning for Rep. Tom Rice, one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump.

"There were a lot of people who wanted to vote like Tom but who just didn't have the guts to do it," Ryan told the group, the Myrtle Beach Sun News reported. "There are a lot of people who say they're going to vote their conscious, they're going to vote for the Constitution, they're going to vote for their convictions but when it gets hard to do that they don't do it."

https://www.businessinsider.com/paul-ryan-republicans-didnt-have-guts-impeach-trump-january-6-2022-6

[Mad_Machine76]

1. Too bad for the entire country

that they didn't. I don't recall that he had much of a spine either, though.

[genxlib]

2. Name names and show receipts

Talk is cheap

[FakeNoose]

3. If they'd voted by secret ballot, Chump would have been convicted for sure

The Senate Repukes would have voted him guilty. Or enough of them would have. But our Dem leaders wanted the Senate votes to be open and visible to the people (on camera), so secret ballots were not allowed.

Paul Ryan is correct about this, but where was he when we needed him? Hiding back home in Wisconsin.

[spanone]

4. Ryan admits he belongs to a party of COWARDS.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

5. Ryan never had the guts to say much

until out of office and off the record.

What a coward

[Bristlecone]

6. Still a turnip.

[czarjak]

7. He'd know!

[Tetrachloride]

8. I believe he's lying to himself and or to everyone

they wanted their house seats more.

several types of lies or deflections at the same time

[3catwoman3]

9. Maybe they wanted to vote to impeach, but they wanted...

...to stay in office even more.

[Hotler]

10. And you Paul Ryan stayed silent also. You could have spoke up publicly.

There is a reason Profiles in Courage is a single volume. TFG must have incriminating pictures of you too.

[TheRealNorth]

12. The Russians probably have something on him

Or he went out of his way to protect other WI Republicans that Russians had something on.

Marina Butina was pretty busy in the upper Midwest.

[Qutzupalotl]

11. Ryan should have impeached over emoluments on day one

but he doesn't care about the Constitution, except as a cudgel.

[bucolic_frolic]

13. " ... they don't do it."? Maybe they're in the wrong line of work. Congress is for the USA

not for feckless Republicans afraid of constituents and patriotism.

[aocommunalpunch]

14. Where's a fucking sink full of clean dishes to wash when you need it?

This motherfucker's words aren't worth the time it took for me to click. Gutless piece of shit.

[2naSalit]

15. Oral diarrhea.

Means nothing.

[bahboo]

16. Profiles in Cowardice...

fuck every last one of them...

[hatrack]

17. Dontgiveashittameter now officially broken . . . .