Paul Ryan: 'Let's Make This Clear --There Is No Collusion'

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo




By Kate Riga | June 7, 2018 12:12 pm

During a press conference on Republicans’ ongoing immigration debate, House Speaker Paul Ryan briefly mentioned the Trump-Russia probe, insisting that there is no evidence of collusion.

“In all of this, in any of this, there’s been no evidence that there’s any collusion between the Trump campaign and the President and Russia,” he said. “Let’s just make that clear — there is no collusion.

“This is Russia and what they did and making sure they don’t do it again and about us, Congress, the elected representative branch of government, conducting very legitimate oversight over the appointed executive branch of government, and we expect them to comply with all of our oversight requests because that is how good government works,” he added.

Ryan is again singing President Donald Trump’s tune after a rare break with the President Wednesday when he cast doubt on Trump’s “spygate” conspiracy by asserting that the FBI had legitimate grounds for sending an informant to converse with Trump campaign aides.

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. It's not collusion, it's espionage, conspiracy, bribery, treason

but definitely, I agree, no collusion, collusion is too mild a term to describe what when on

[PaulX2]

7. Lock Up Paul Ryan Too For Running Cover For Putin

There is more evidence of collusion than there is of the sun being hot.

Ryan is a liar.

[sprinkleeninow]

15. What, bc HE says so?

Law enforcement, put his butt inna sling.

Shabbyass.

[kimbutgar]

2. Paul Ryan is now a pretzel man

[thegoose]

4. And a bag man

So much for an illustrious career, carrying water for the Orange Anus.

[dameatball]

3. Mueller: "Go Fish!"

[TeamPooka]

5. Eddie Munster got yelled at by Trump.

[Freethinker65]

6. Obstruction

[turbinetree]

8. He is an enabling traitor......................to treason.....................

November 2018 cannot get here fast enough for Randy Byrce

[CentralMass]

9. Follow the Russian money.

[Botany]

10. there is no collusion

'cept for the 75 contacts and the 22 in person meetings, the cambridge analytica computer in trump's HQ,
Erik Prince's meeting in the Seychelles,the meeting @ the RNC to change the platform, Cohen's meeting in
Prague, Facebook's work with the Trump campaign and Russia, Manafort picking Pence to be V.P., all the
Russian/NRA money, ....

“In all of this, in any of this, there’s been no evidence that there’s any collusion between the Trump campaign and the President and Russia,” he said. “Let’s just make that clear — there is no collusion.

[Eliot Rosewater]

11. Ryan and others are guilty of conspiracy to interfere with our elections with a foreign

country.

They know it.

I wont be satisfied till I see them all in prison.

[Thomas Hurt]

12. He doesn't know that...he hasn't sat on a jury or impeachment proceedings and heard all the evidence

[underthematrix]

13. I have no phucks to give

Link to tweet

[yonder]

14. "...and making sure they don't do it again..."

Good one, Eddie. And when, exactly, are you going to start the making sure they don't do it again thing?

[C_U_L8R]

16. It's conspiracy. Of course.

And the evidence is everywhere.

[PSPS]

17. Note that Ryan's campaign received a lot of dark money from the kremlin.

[Mc Mike]

18. Lyin has as much integrity as Cruz.

He's as crooked and treasonous as the standard repuglinazi.

[Midnight Writer]

19. "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"-Donald Rumsfeld (R-War Criminal)

[Crash2Parties]

20. Ryan's PAC distributed campaign funds donated by Putin-ally "businessmen"

[neohippie]

21. Remember when Ryan used hacked documents

Except Paul Ryan had no problems using the hacked materials Russia stole in GOP races, the GOP has no honor and are full of hypocrisy

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/pelosi-ryan-hacked-documents-227800

By POLITICO STAFF 09/06/2016 06:18 PM EDT
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday called on House Speaker Paul Ryan to oppose any attempts to use the hacked materials from the Democratic National Committee in campaign attacks, saying Republicans and Democrats must present a "united front."

"Russia's cyber attack is an unprecedented assault on the sanctity of our democratic process," Pelosi wrote. "We must come together to say that defending our democracy from Russia's meddling is more important than any advantage of disadvantage in this election."

She went on to say, "Democrats and Republicans must present a united front in the face of Russia's attempts to tamper with the will of the American people."

A spokeswoman for Paul Ryan did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but Katie Martin, a spokeswoman with the National Republican Congressional Committee told the Associated Press that Ryan and NRCC head Greg Walden do not "have control over" all campaign ads.

And the hacked materials were also used in House races too


https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/us/politics/house-democrats-hacking-dccc.html

Why the Russian government might care about these unglamorous House races is a source of bafflement for some of the lawmakers who were targeted. But if the goal of Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, was to make American democracy a less attractive model to his own citizens and to Russia’s neighbors, then entangling congressional races in accusations of leaks and subterfuge was a step in the right direction.

The intrusions in House races in states including Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Ohio, Illinois, New Mexico and North Carolina can be traced to tens of thousands of pages of documents taken from the D.C.C.C., which shares a Capitol Hill office building with the Democratic National Committee.

The document dump’s effectiveness was due in part to a de facto alliance that formed between the Russian hackers and political bloggers and newspapers across the United States. The hackers, working under the made-up name of Guccifer 2.0, used social media tools to invite individual reporters to request specific caches of documents, handing them out the way political operatives distribute scoops. It was an arrangement that proved irresistible to many news outlets — and amplified the consequences of the cyberattack.

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