Posted on 06/03/2016 4:38:51 PM PDT by reaganaut1
If there was any doubt that Paul Ryan’s endorsement of Donald Trump was less than full-throated, he crushed it on Friday.
Less than 24 hours after Ryan announced that his “not ready” had become a “ready,” the House speaker ripped into the presumptive Republican nominee, making it clear he will not be Trump’s defender in chief.
Unprompted by WISN radio host Vicki McKenna, Ryan scolded Trump for his racially-based attacks against the federal judge in California overseeing a civil fraud lawsuit against Trump University.
“Look, the comment about the judge the other day just was out of left field for my mind,” Ryan said, after Trump argued that U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel’s Mexican heritage creates "an inherent conflict of interest.”
“It’s reasoning I don’t relate to. I completely disagree with the thinking behind that. And so, he clearly says and does things I don’t agree with, and I’ve had to speak up from time to time when that has occurred, and I’ll continue to do that if it’s necessary. I hope it’s not.”
This is Ryan’s new fate — one day embracing the man taking a blowtorch to the Republican Party, the next day denouncing him.
Ryan’s ambivalence practically leapt off the page of The Janesville Gazette on Thursday. He offered only tepid compliments to Trump and chose not to explain exactly what had changed since May 5, when Ryan went on CNN to declare that he was “just not ready” to endorse Trump.
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The convention is only six weeks away.
Ryan must be defeated.
When is this idiot gone? he’s getting to much air time he’s not important
Pualie is a disgrace that we will have to fix next year.
...one day embracing the man taking a blowtorch to the Republican Party, the next day denouncing him.So much for Donald Trump 'needing' to reach out and unify the Republican party.
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