Soon-to-not-be-Speaker of the House Paul Ryan stabbed Trump in the back by not backing his dubious claims about spygate and the deep state conspiracy to obliterate the rule of the people.
Contradicting Trump, @SpeakerRyan tells @mkraju he agrees with Trey Gowdy that the FBI did “exactly” what it was supposed to do in regards to confidential FBI source.
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) June 6, 2018
More from CNN:
House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr, both Republicans, broke with President Donald Trump on Wednesday over allegations spies infiltrated his 2016 campaign, saying they agree with GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy that the FBI did “exactly” what it should have done over its handling of a confidential source.
The declarations by the leading Republicans are the latest indications that Trump lacks any evidence to back up his claims of a major political scandal he calls “spygate” — since those lawmakers were among a select group briefed on the classified intelligence at issue. The only Republican briefed on the intelligence who has yet to break from Trump is Rep. Devin Nunes, the House Intelligence chairman who has demanded more documents as part of his investigation.
“I think Chairman Gowdy’s initial assessment’s accurate, I think, but we have some more digging to do. We’re waiting for some more document requests,” Ryan told reporters at a news conference on Capitol Hill. “It would have been helpful if we got this information earlier.”“I think that Trey Gowdy’s description of the process was correct,” Burr said.
Now there’s a lot of people saying that Gowdy can’t be trusted and he was always going to betray Trump, and similarly of Paul Ryan. But if that was the case then why did Devin Nunes depend on Gowdy to write the Republican memo everyone was demanding he release about the IG report? Seems kinda silly to depend on someone they knew was a vicious deep state nevertrumper? Though, to be fair, that was a long time ago and no one remembers anything for longer than a day if it ruins their narrative. Now let’s all #MAGA together!!!