President Donald Trump unloaded via Twitter on former U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan, calling Ryan a “lame duck failure.”
Ryan, a fellow Republican from Janesville, is very critical of Trump in the book “American Carnage” by Tim Alberta of Politico, in excerpts running in various publications. Alberta wrote the former speaker couldn’t stand the idea of another two years with the president and saw retirement as the “escape hatch,” according to The Washington Post.
Ryan is quoted saying: “I’m telling you, he didn’t know anything about government. I wanted to scold him all the time.”
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Trump tweeted late Thursday: “He had the Majority & blew it away with his poor leadership and bad timing. Never knew how to go after the Dems like they go after us. Couldn’t get him out of Congress fast enough!”
Paul Ryan, the failed V.P. candidate & former Speaker of the House, whose record of achievement was atrocious (except during my first two years as President), ultimately became a long running lame duck failure, leaving his Party in the lurch both as a fundraiser & leader……
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 12, 2019
….When Mitt chose Paul I told people that’s the end of that Presidential run. He quit Congress because he didn’t know how to Win. They gave me standing O’s in the Great State of Wisconsin, & booed him off the stage. He promised me the Wall, & failed (happening anyway!)……
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 12, 2019
….He had the Majority & blew it away with his poor leadership and bad timing. Never knew how to go after the Dems like they go after us. Couldn’t get him out of Congress fast enough!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 12, 2019
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