Speaker Paul Ryan: President Trump is 'trolling people' with threat to revoke security clearances

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From July 24, 2018....What a clueless POS.

House Speaker Paul Ryan downplayed President Donald Trump’s threat to revoke the security clearances of high-level ex-government officials who have criticized the president.

“I think he’s just trolling people, honestly,” Ryan, R-Wis., told reporters Tuesday.

Ryan declined to say whether such a move would be appropriate, arguing that it’s under the purview of the White House, not Congress.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday that Trump was exploring "mechanisms" to revoke security clearances of six officials who served in the Obama Administration: ex-CIA director John Brennan, former FBI director James Comey, ex-national intelligence director James Clapper, former CIA director Michael Hayden, former national security adviser Susan Rice and former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/07/24/paul-ryan-downplays-trumps-threat-revoke-security-clearances/825918002/

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1. A president should not use an important power to troll people

and by the way, Ryan, there is something called checks and balances. You have an obligation to oversee the executive branch.

You hack.

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2. Ryan is a feckless bozo

who loves to talk values and principles so long as he never has to stand up for any.

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12. E X A C T L Y

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3. Goddamned coward. And here I thought John Boehner was the worst Speaker ever...

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10. Ryan makes Boehner look like a stand up guy

What a limp noodle.

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4. JUST TROLLING PEOPLE???

You mean we shouldn’t take seriously anything said by the man with the most power on the freakin’ PLANET???



May Paul Ryan never have a job again. Not at McDonald’s. Not as a janitor. Those are honorable work. He can’t do honorable work.

[Va Lefty]

5. Ryan's policies have afflicted most Americans and comforted the comfortable

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6. I don't think he gets free health care at work...

my FEHB BXBS benefits are $569 a month for family coverage.

However, I think the bottom caption is apt.

[Va Lefty]

8. Thanks for the correction!

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11. Yes and no

They do pay premiums but can get a lot of outpatient care for free or very low cost through the Office of the attending physician and free outpatient care at Washington DC military facilities.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

7. .

[JI7]

9. useless cowardly little fucker