Paul Ryan says Trump’s campaign is ‘distressing’ but stands by endorsement
Source: Washington Post
Paul Ryan says Trump’s campaign is ‘distressing’ but stands by endorsement
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“He’s had a pretty strange run since the convention,” Ryan said on WTAQ radio in Green Bay. “You would think that we want to be focusing on Hillary Clinton, on all of her deficiencies. She is such a weak candidate that one would think that we would be on offense against Hillary Clinton, and it is distressing that that’s not what we’re talking about these days.”
The interview was Ryan’s first live interview in more than a week, and it followed a near-constant string of Trump controversies, including his attacks on the parents of Capt. Humayun Khan, a Muslim-American Army officer who was killed in Iraq War combat in 2004.
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But he made clear that he is deeply uncomfortable with Trump’s performance since becoming the nominee. He called Trump’s comments on the Khan family “were beyond the pale.”
“You don’t do that to Gold Star families,” he said. “If anyone has earned the right to say whatever they want, it is Gold Star Families.”
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Where is Paul Ryan's integrity? Did he leave it on the bus? Should he check in his suitcases?
I can't help but think about good old, weepy John Boehner and how he would have handled things. Maybe better. I think so. Anyway, dude had remarkable timing on choosing when to exit the stage.
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