Thanks for reminding of the other reason the house was useless
President Donald Trump is not happy that former House Speaker Paul Ryan blocked subpoenas of people and entities Trump thinks the House GOP should have been investigating during the first two years of his administration.
Trump told Breitbart News in an exclusive lengthy Oval Office interview that Ryan blocked issuance of subpoenas to people he thinks should have been investigated on the political left, and now that the Republicans no longer have the majority in the House, people Trump says Ryan protected may have gotten away with whatever they did that warranted investigation.
Trump said that House Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) and his predecessor and fellow conservative Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) wanted to be tougher with the left, but that Ryan would not let them.
“Paul Ryan wouldn’t give the right to have any subpoenas,” Trump told Breitbart News. “Okay? Now in all fairness, Meadows and Jordan and all these guys, they wanted to go tougher, but they weren’t allowed to by leadership.”
Trump’s relationship with Ryan during Ryan’s tenure was fraught with peril from the get-go. Ryan only hesitantly backed Trump’s 2016 campaign in 2016 once Trump won the GOP nomination, but then backed off from supporting Trump after the release of the infamous Access Hollywood tape. Ryan ditched on a campaign event he had scheduled with Trump that weekend, and the following week held a conference call with House GOP members in early October 2016 in which he told members it would be acceptable to him if they abandoned the GOP nominee for president just weeks before the 2016 election.
“I am not going to defend Donald Trump—not now, not in the future,” Ryan said on the private call, audio of which was obtained by Breitbart News and published in early 2017.
Ryan followed through on that and never campaigned with Trump. When Breitbart News published this audio in the spring of 2017, his then-spokesman Brendan Buck claimed that “a lot has happened since then” and argued that Ryan was working with Trump on the president’s agenda in the first couple years of his administration.
.. Trump’s relationship with Ryan during Ryan’s tenure was fraught with peril from the get-go. Ryan only hesitantly backed Trump’s 2016 campaign in 2016 once Trump won the GOP nomination, but then backed off from supporting Trump after the release of the infamous Access Hollywood tape.
My theory about that now was that Ryan was DS (or at least dirty/guilty) and only supported Trump because he had to play the part of a “loyal Republican” or whatever. The DS needed to do something in order to give him and other GOPe’s a plausible excuse for backstabbing him and withdrawing support. So voila! The tape.
Next, the unthinkable happened and Trump got elected (despite the massive DS fraud in the election process). So now what? Well, now Ryan comes out with a speech full of lies about supporting Trump. He has to have some cover and he doesn’t know who will ultimately win, so he pretends to be conservative, blah, blah, blah. (I’m betting he was probably promised the Speaker of the House job amidst all the election fraud, etc. Maybe that’s what he sold his soul to get?)
BUT....Trump has it all and knows who is compromised. That includes Ryan.
BUT.....the DS still has the dirt on Ryan to leverage him.
So Ryan is caught between a rock and a hard place. Who can do the most damage to him?
I have no idea whether he was completely pwned by Trump and playing his role from ‘16-’18 or whether he was still working for the DS to save his skin. Or maybe he was walking a tightrope between the two.
Maybe when the truth comes out, we’ll know.
So Ryan is gone, but this still doesn’t explain how losing the House in any way enables or encourages any movement toward justice. Just the opposite, the DemoKKKrats block far more than Ryan’s House did.