Posted on 06/10/2016 7:37:13 AM PDT by mandaladon
Speaker Paul Ryan’s handling of Donald Trump is coming under criticism from Senate Republicans, many of whom prefer the way their leader, Mitch McConnell, deals with the unconventional candidate.
McConnell, the Senate majority leader from Kentucky, has steadfastly declined to call Trump's criticism of a federal judge “racist,” a term that Ryan (R-Wis.) pointedly deployed.
“It sets up journalists to ask, ‘Do you agree with Paul Ryan that it was racist?” said an aide to a vulnerable GOP senator
Trump set off a firestorm last week by claiming that a Mexican-American federal judge handling a lawsuit against Trump University was biased because of his heritage.
Republican lawmakers on both sides of the Capitol swiftly expressed strong disapproval, but Ryan ratcheted up the criticism significantly by calling it “the textbook definition of a racist comment.”
Ryan’s remarks quickly became a Democratic talking point used to batter vulnerable Senate Republican incumbents.
“This morning, Ryan called Donald Trump’s attacks on Judge Gonzalo Curiel the ‘textbook definition of racism.’ Will Johnson join Ryan in calling out Trump’s racism?” American Bridge, a Democrat-allied communications group, asked in a press release targeting Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), one of the chamber’s most endangered incumbents.
The group sent out similar releases pressing Republican Sens. Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), Roy Blunt (Mo.), Mark Kirk (Ill.), John McCain (Ariz.), Rob Portman (Ohio) and Pat Toomey (Pa.) to condemn Trump’s action as “racist.”
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee on Wednesday sent an email to reporters highlighting a Tampa Bay Times article in which three Republican Senate candidates declined to go as far as Ryan.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
That would make us all very happy
Shame on Ryan... shame on his bottomless neediness...
Ryan is planning his future at the feet of Trump and Trump’s followers. Ryan has no idea what he has become to us out here. He evidently does not read the comments on what he puts on FB. It’s all there for him to read. He ought to check it out.
Subject Trump: Where Trump gets into trouble, is when he talks, he says what he thinks... he tells the truth.. no spin.. just truth. Politicians are famous for lying and for not saying a thing when they talk. The media and the folks are used to that... and when someone says what he thinks, when someone tells the truth, there is consternation on all fronts. And they go ballistic.
Trump doesn’t couch and he doesn’t dance around his subject.. he is too honest... and you know how Washington can’t stand honesty... they are suspicious of anyone telling the truth. They jump Trump for just saying what they say behind everyone’s back. They are not clean nor lily white.. they are dark and dishonest.
RINO Man
So Trump is a racist because he called a judge a racist ? Well he kinda has some evidence the judge is being racist. Guess that does not matter in bizaro world.
Ryan the gutless wussie. Afraid of his own shadow. Start calling him “Tinkerbell” ( or is that Lindsey Graham?)
If anybody wonders why we mad look no further than this! How many GOP folks said anything about Rev Wrights speech or have gone after Hillary or Obama like this? Come to think of it has any GOP politician blasted into Hillary yet like the Dems have done to Trump? If so, other than Sessions, I haven’t seen it.
thanks, very informative thread about the Judge..
By Monday, I hope!
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