What's so stunning about former House Speaker Paul Ryan's new admissions regarding President Donald Trump is that his story is now so ordinary
WASHINGTON — What's so stunning about former House Speaker Paul Ryan's new admissions regarding President Donald Trump is that his story is now so ordinary.
"I'm telling you, he didn't know anything about government," Ryan says in the book."I wanted to scold him all the time. What I learned as I went on, to scratch that itch, I had to do it in private. So, I did it in private all the time. And he actually ended up kind of appreciating it." "Those of us around him really helped to stop him from making bad decisions. All the time," said Ryan, who stepped down after nearly two decades in Washington , in the book."We helped him make much better decisions, which were contrary to kind of what his knee-jerk reaction was. Now I think he's making some of these knee-jerk reactions.
Story continuesOne Republican congressman said Friday that on Capitol Hill and beyond,"everyone is in on the joke." They take the good with the bad with this president, and find their own way in Trump's party, said the congressman, who was granted anonymity to discuss the private thinking. "There's room for a difference of opinion, and to be passionate about it," said Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., a Trump confidant."But you don't have to be personal with your attacks. And I think that's the difference."
Ryan is now well into his retirement, having handed over the speaker's gavel to Nancy Pelosi and decamped for his Wisconsin hometown of Janesville. The party's 2012 vice presidential nominee, alongside Mitt Romney, he was often considered a future presidential contender. When he announced his retirement in 2018, he said he doubted any political run was in his future. Now he hits the speaking circuit and serves on the board of Fox.
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