Posted on 06/24/2024 5:50:55 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
What kind of a political leader sends members of his own party on a wild goose chase to find out whether their party leader was a Russian spy while sitting on a phony dossier full of lies and not telling them?
Well, we now know the answer: Former House Speaker Paul Ryan.
I've defended him for a long time and have never been a Ryan-hater, but this is not a pretty picture.
According to Roll Call:
GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger and a longtime aide to Speaker Paul D. Ryan each were given an early look at the final report added to the infamous “Steele dossier,” court documents in a lawsuit against BuzzFeed News show.Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence agent who compiled the unsubstantiated research booklet in 2016 about Donald Trump’s connections to Russia before he became president, gave the report to Kinzinger and Jonathan Burks, Ryan’s longtime chief of staff, after he completed it on Dec. 13, 2016, according to the court memo.
In addition to Kinzinger and Burks, Steele also handed off the 17th and final report of his dossier, Report 166, to a longtime associate of Sen. John McCain and the top Russia expert on President Barack Obama’s National Security Council.
That's from a court case involving a Russian who says he was smeared by the documents, which of course, were leaked to the press -- but not the investigators.
According to Kash Patel, who, along with Rep. Devin Nunes, both of whom had to get to the bottom of this without the documents Ryan had, just the haze of allegations in the press, speaking with Steve Bannon on one of his broadcasts:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Paul Ryan = P.O.S.
The issue is important because Ryan knew the partisan origins of the Steele dossier and chose to not reveal that to the investigators. He prefered that the investigators get caught up in the document and in his mind, hopefully come up with the conclusion that the sleazy allegations were true, and not Russian drunkard stuff which is apparently how the invented trash got put together.
Meanwhile, maybe Paul Ryan ought to explain to the Fox News board why he instigated this dishonest witch hunt, given that truthfulness is an important thing in the news industry.
Ryan just couldn’t handle a few ‘mean tweets’ so he had to join with democrats to try to destroy Trump and everyone who votes for him.
Some republican huh?
Since when? Not at least since before Walter Cronkite, who was a propagandist and a partisan liar.
How can anyone take Monica Showalter seriously?
She says she was never a Ryan Hater.
I guess she means the rest of us were.
We were right.
And she was Blind.
And in his spare time, he made sure that every election cycle he reminded the public that the GOP wanted to eviscerate Social Security & Medicare for the middle class.
Strategic thinker/s
RE: We were right. And she was Blind.
Did you vote in the 2012 Presidential election? Or did you stay home?
I firmly believe the raid on MaraLargo was to recover all the crossfire hurricane documents that will implicate many officials, including Ryan and other leadership.
RE: Paul Ryan out to probe Trump....
Ryan had been probed often and felt all excited and tingly over it so to him it was not a bad thing. 💓😉
Ryan and Pence are disgusting people.
I do not think Paul Ryan’s main objection to Trump was about “mean tweets“. I believe Paul Ryan is a member of the Republican party of collusion, preferring the consequences of the New World Order and other policies that the Democrats promoted. Since he was officially a Republican, he could not come out right for them publicly, but he could try to destroy Trump who is a man for the people.
I have never liked Paul Ryan, a snake, and now I dislike him even more I can just see him with the same expression on his face as Harry Reid had when somebody challenged him about lying about Romney not paying taxes for 10 years. Harry Reid smirked and said “we won didn’t we”?
Ryan is the worst RINO in my lifetime.
IIRC, his wife and her parents are huge dem supporters.
Was Ryan a Trojan Horse?????
I’m fed up with the cowardly sheep blathering about Trump’s “mean tweets.” They need to grow a spine. People are blowing stuff up all over the planet and snowflake cowards lament about mean tweets. It’s pathetic.
Deep State RINO!
Go ahead a write your own name on your ballot POS ……
Hey, Monica: That must mean you haven't really been paying attention.
I suspect the FBI gave the dossier to everyone they thought was important in the government and to foreign leaders to make everyone believe Trump was working with Putin and couldn’t be trusted.
“..Ryan and Pence are disgusting people...”
Without a doubt.
All the UniParty members are pretty disgusting.
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