Paul Ryan SPEAKS OUT on Manafort indictment: "People deserve tax breaks"

[Miles Archer]

WASHINGTON ― House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) says he’s too focused on tax reform to be distracted by President Donald Trump’s former campaign officials getting indicated for money laundering and conspiring against the United States.

“I really don’t have anything to add [about the indictments], other than nothing is going to derail what we’re doing in Congress because we’re working on solving people’s problems,” Ryan said in a Monday radio interview on WTAQ’s “The Jerry Bader Show,” based in Wisconsin.

“People deserve tax breaks,” he said. “Nothing derails us from focusing on that. That’s basically where a lot of our time and attention is focused on right now.”

Ryan’s comments came hours after former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his longtime associate, Rick Gates, were indicted by a federal grand jury on 12 charges, including conspiracy against the United States and money laundering. Gates was an aide to the Trump campaign, eventually serving as deputy campaign manager.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/paul-ryan-manafort-trump-indicted-tax-reform_us_59f7472ce4b077d8dfcb3800

[DK504]

1. Ryan:" It doesn't matter that we have a traitor in the WH.

All that matters is the 1% get billion dollar payoffs."

Ayn Rand is my long lost grandma.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

2. And by "people" he means corporations and the top 1%

The rest of us are peons.

[Thomas Hurt]

3. "Gentlemen, We've Got to Protect Our Phony Baloney Jobs!" - Gov. Lepetomane

[Hortensis]

4. "...a lot of our attention..." Uhuh. OUR attention,or

lack of it, is going to be of great interest to these thieves as they develop their heist.

[L. Coyote]

5. Guys like Manafort deserve their million dollar tax break ASAP.

This is not going to end well for all the crooked, tax cheating millionaires who want to steal 1.5 trillion $$$$$ more from the US Treasury.

[BlueJac]

6. Fuck the enablers!

[MrsCoffee]

7. He is sweating bullets.

He is going down with the rest of the gang. I remember hearing him on tape shutting people up who were talking about Trump and Rohrabacher both being compromised by Putin. In the least he is complicit, but I think he is had a part in the collusion.

[DoctorJoJo]

8. Ryan: "First and Foremost ....

.... we must screw Main Street and gift Wall Street, as the GOP Gods and Ayn Rand intend. Especially the Death Tax, which affects so many of the poor and middle class! After that if nothing trickles down, we will tinkle down on the unwashed."

[procon]

9. First and foremost, people deserve a legitimately elected president. nt

[Squinch]

10. "I'm bought and paid for and I have to get this shit done for my owners. Can't get distracted."

[Mr. Ected]

11. He's an ostrich sticking his head in the ground

Which leaves him blinded with his ass high in the air.

[hedda_foil]

12. Well sure. Manafort just laundered Russian money offshore because taxes.

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[spanone]

13. fuck this weasel. you'd think God mandated tax breaks listening to these fuckers.

[OldHippieChick]

14. He has absolutely no integrity. I never liked

Boehner, but I do think he had some integrity.

[Sugar Smack]

15. Denial ain't just a river in Egypt, bless his heart.

He'll wake up soon enough & rudely enough.