Ryan wanted to straddle the fence between his buds, the establishment/Romney and Trump.
In the end, he did neither and in fact he did damage.
He knew his Bud Romney was still on the fence about running third party, but of course that will never happen but Ryan isn’t smart enough to know this.
Ryan was caught, classic deer in the headlights mistake. Should have said “I’m very interested in meeting Mr. Trump next week”. and then zipped it.
But his mistake was huge, he allowed the non-unity story to progress and even encouraged anti-Trump folks to pour gas on that fire.
Make no mistake, this was a JV mistake and a huge mistake on Ryan’s part.
He either comes out of the Thursday meeting with Trump with a Red hat and a Trump pom-pom or he will not be allowed at the convention and he’ll lose his house seat.
Poor Ryan - he made a BIG mistake and really better act quickly at damage control.
I hope Ryan is banished into the wilderness of failed politicians for all time.