Twitter Critics Won't Let Paul Ryan Play Hero After Report He Blasted Trump

[mfcorey1]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/paul-ryan-donald-trump-twitter_n_5d27b7e0e4b0bd7d1e19c222

Paul Ryan critics on Twitter aren’t giving the former House speaker much credit for reportedly bashing President Donald Trump in an interview for a new book.

Politico correspondent Tim Alberta suggests in his upcoming book “American Carnage” that Ryan didn’t seek reelection because he couldn’t bear continuing to work with Trump, according to The Washington Post, which obtained a copy of the book ahead of its Tuesday publication.

Ryan saw retirement as an “escape hatch,” Alberta wrote, according to the Post, and told Alberta that Trump “didn’t know anything about government” and that he didn’t like Trump’s behavior.

“I told myself I gotta have a relationship with this guy to help him get his mind right,” Ryan recalled in the book, the Post reported. “Because, I’m telling you, he didn’t know anything about government . . . I wanted to scold him all the time.”

A spokesperson for Ryan pushed back against the idea that the former GOP speaker retired because of Trump, telling The Hill that Ryan has “been very clear that he retired because he wanted to spend more time being a father and a husband.”

According to the Post, Ryan also told Alberta that “we’ve gotten so numbed by it all,” apparently responding to Trump’s behavior, adding: “Don’t call a woman a ‘horse face.’ Don’t cheat on your wife. Don’t cheat on anything. Be a good person. Set a good example.”

He also told Alberta he believed Trump’s actions were getting more problematic, the Post said.

“Those of us around him really helped to stop him from making bad decisions. All the time,” Ryan reportedly said. “We helped him make much better decisions, which were contrary to kind of what his knee-jerk reaction was. Now I think he’s making some of these knee-jerk reactions.”

[Wounded Bear]

1. I really don't care, do you?

They can hate on each other all they want.

[mfcorey1]

2. i care for all these scoundrels to be exposed as the spineless cowards

that took part in the destruction of Democracy. Let it often be recorded and forever be a part of their sordid legacy!

[Guilded Lilly]

3. Ryan did squat for the advancement of decency in our country...

Then quit. Walked away.
And while I was very glad to see him gone and felt he was a total jerk, to piss on the deterioration he enabled while he WAS there from a safer distance shows his utter lack of...intestinal fortitude.

He has been and always will be a weak ass, shady charactered, self-serving, self-loving spooge. And now, he needs attention to help sell someone’s book.

You failed, Ryan. As a politician and a person.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. corrupt lyin' ryan

[GoCubsGo]

6. Spot on. nt

[GoCubsGo]

5. He's not called "Lyin' Ryan" for nothing.

Jeezus, he's so full of shit. If he was offended by Trump's behavior, why did he enable it, by letting him run roughshod all over the place? I don't doubt the things he says about Trump. But, as to his being offended by him, yeah. Right. You're full of shit, you slimy, little twerp. Or, at the very least, a big, fat fucking coward. Your inaction speaks volumes about you.

[tanyev]

7. Right, remember when Ryan stood up to Trump in the first week of his presidency and demanded

he stop illegally detaining people at the airport or face impeachment proceedings? Yeah, me neither.

Paul Ryan has urged Republicans to stand by Donald Trump’s travel ban on people from seven Muslim-majority countries, throwing his support behind the restrictive policy despite its mixed reactions from lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

Ryan also issued a strong defense of Trump’s action in a closed-door meeting with Republicans on Tuesday morning, according to some lawmakers in attendance. The House speaker acknowledged the controversy surrounding the ban and told his members they were likely to see protests in their districts.

Ryan’s backing of Trump came as many Republicans criticized the new administration for failing to consult Congress on an action that produced chaos and uncertainty across the US government. Ryan said he only learned of the executive order as it was being issued, while characterizing the confusion stemming from its abrupt rollout as “regrettable”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/31/paul-ryan-travel-ban-republicans-congress-reaction-trump