Ryan defends Trump on Comey: 'The president's new at this'
Source: Politico
By RACHAEL BADE 06/08/2017 12:12 PM EDT
Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday defended President Donald Trump's communications with ex-FBI director James Comey, saying Trump wasn't "steeped in the long-running protocols" of how to interact with law enforcement.
"The president's new at this," Ryan said at a news conference. "He's new at government."
The Wisconsin Republican also expressed sympathy for Trump's frustration with the Russia investigation, noting that Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee that Trump was not the subject of the probe. "I think the American people now know why he was frustrated."
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dchill
(38,505 posts)He hasn't even tried it yet.
cstanleytech
(26,298 posts)Trump asking Comey to drop the case against Flynn as an unintentional error on his part because he has no prior experience in office which is bullshit since hes supposed to be a major international businessman so he should already know better.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)Trump's a bumbling and corrupt amateur who has no business in the office he occupies.
forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)to the MOST IMPORTANT JOB IN THE COUNTRY???
AMERICA IS NOT FUCKING MCDONALDS. YOU DO NOT LEARN "PRESIDENTING' ON THE JOB.
THIS IS NOT A VALID EXCUSE FOR ANYTHING
"Attention passengers, you may have noticed some abrupt altitude changes, and we were flying sideways for a few minutes back there...but please go easy on our pilot. He's new."
WHAT THE ABSOLUTE FUCKING SHIT KIND OF EXCUSE IS THAT?
I WANT AN A+ RHODES SCHOLAR/MIT GRADUATE/MENSA CARD CARRYING GENIUS BRAIN SURGEON-LEVEL PhD DOCTORATE LEVEL HEADED SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE PERSON FLYING THE COUNTRY.
AAAUGHHHH!
I'm okay now. I'll be fine.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)and has dealt with FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS for loans and business deals, dealt with the highest real estate rollers & attorneys in the world, and HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN ALMOST 4,000 LAWSUITS.
He's no a naive 40 year old who owns a doughnut shop. Get real!
When he asks everyone to leave the room, including Comey's boss, so he can speak with Comey ALONE, that means only one thing.
Response to Honeycombe8 (Reply #3)
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BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)At bullying people into submission and getting his way.
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)n/t
Eyeball_Kid
(7,432 posts)Of course he's going to soft-pedal Trumpy's treasonous behavior. He's in the same position.
Botany
(70,518 posts)It was my first bank robbery and I am new at this.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)"He's new at this..." What a lameass republican excuse.
Man up. If you take a job, you damn well better be able to do it. Comrade Casino, the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief, does not get an infinite supply of whiney lameass excuses for treason, profiteering, lying, and criminal obstruction of justice.
Wow - republicans are shameful.
sprinkleeninow
(20,252 posts)from where I cannot recount due all the 'pollution' filling my ears and head.
If that's the case, he has NO *business* in the peoples' oval office.
What is this June only?
tblue37
(65,409 posts)Eugene
(61,900 posts)Even landlords like Trump have them. The concept should not be new to him.
Even if Trump didn't know any better, it was his Washington handlers' jobs
to know better.
During Watergate, was young Donald too busy screwing around to pay attention?
LisaM
(27,813 posts)I do not grasp the allure of electing non politicians. Stupid.
J_William_Ryan
(1,755 posts)It's a moronic notion contrived by the right.
Afromania
(2,769 posts)Last edited Thu Jun 8, 2017, 06:43 PM - Edit history (1)
Obaaaaaammmmaaaaaa is a commmmmmuunnniiiiittttyyy ooorrrgaaannniiizzzeeeerrrrrrr!!!
and a Manga Cum Lade Harvard educated lawyer
and a 3 term Senator
and so on and so on
AND A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER
trump
a fucking twit that inherited money and would have been better doing nothing while collecting interest.
nothing
more nothing
even more nothing
It's perfectly "OK" for trump to be a goddamn idiot and screw the country up because he's "new at this" but Obama was supposed to magic negro the country back to prosperity by this same time in his presidency. Fuck Ryan, and the Republican party AND their voters.
barbtries
(28,799 posts)Obama had less than 1 full term in the Senate; he resigned to become President.
tblue37
(65,409 posts)barbtries
(28,799 posts)i only looked up his time in the US Senate. mea culpa.
i love learning this is why DU is my virtual home
treestar
(82,383 posts)argue any candidate is not qualified. All we have to do is say the person has more experience than Donald. I tell them they should take it all back about Obama. Double standard that like their then complaints about Bill Clinton's shenanigans, they are insincere because when applying their alleged standards to the Orange Toxin, he should have been disqualified by their own opinion.
TalenaGor
(1,104 posts)and what hes NOT new to is threatening, forcing his way etc - everyone knows what it means when they hear "I hope you want your job....I hope you can drop this investigation'
thats what he was doing and he damn well knew it
we have an extremely ill equipped individual driving the country off a cliff - saying he didnt know/or mean to drive us off the cliff doesnt change the fact that were going over the cliff
but - TY Mr Ryan for confirming his lack of preparedness for his position - something we screamed about but you failed to confirm before the election, and only now do because its convenient as a defense....
TalenaGor
(1,104 posts)just sayin...
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,011 posts)Ryan confirms Republican President Trump is not qualified.
The Republican brand must be forever damaged by choosing tRump. He is the culmination of 40 years of stupefying Republican brand building.
LisaM
(27,813 posts)I was actually thinking of calling his office and saying something very similar to that.....held off, though.
UT_democrat
(143 posts)You don't get a fucking mulligan when you are the President of the United States
CountAllVotes
(20,876 posts)Crock o'crap!
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mindem
(1,580 posts)In other words, Ryan is saying "drumph is stupid, give him a break".
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)He's Frustrated ass****, he is bilking us and he's laughing all the way to fucking us over and stuffing his pockets with taxpayer dollars ass**** , and he's a fucking TRAITOR, right along with anyone that thinks "he's new at the job"
Under the emolument clause ass**** he should be removed from office, or did you forget that part of the constitution that your swore to defend and protect as****
Why don't you go on Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow or Lawrence O'Donnell and explain to us your BS, but you will not you will go on the Van Susteren or the Megan Kelly BS shows or over at that fucking propaganda arm of your party Fix Noise and get pillow taps of BS questions
you are really a fucking hypocrite you put your fucking party over country, you really are a fucking slime ball
FUCK YOU
barbtries
(28,799 posts)i responded below but under the surface this is how i really feel
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)Right now as we speak this jerk, and his cronies in the House are getting ready to pass legislation to dismember the Dodd-Frank provision on banks to protect us from the lenders that put the country into a tail spin.
And then over on the Senate side, the other half of the criminal gang being led by some corrupt turtle lip jerk, they are getting ready to gut the ACA and put into place a legal death panels to deny people health care coverage.
Then to top it all off we have treason being committed with in a white house and treating the place like its the god father happy hour, of if you don't give him loyalty he gives you the kiss, just like some Mafia underlings.
I am so pissed off right now.
barbtries
(28,799 posts)get active. write, call, march, run for office, you name it. easier said than done i know that too well, but at the end of the day, we the people are where the power lies. the republicans will have their day but they cannot hold on to it. i think they know that and consequently this constant unrelenting slash and burn. but FUCK THEM.
it is a nightmare.
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)and I am going back to my days when we stopped people from being shipped off to war, and couldn't vote
We really need to get out on the streets now , that they are about to dismantle Medicaid, and throw the entire country into another home mortgage ponzi scheme.
They are trying to gut the ACA prior to there 30 day July 4, recess, so that when they go home people will not be screaming, they are wrong, we are coming
And yes YES FUCK THEM
bora13
(860 posts)he also doesn't know the limitations of father/daughter relationships by the sounds of it.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Turbineguy
(37,345 posts)That route is no longer in service.
C Moon
(12,213 posts)What? Ryan wants us to feel sorry for Trump now? Oh. He knows not what he does, leave the poor multi-millionaire alone, you guys.
Penn Voter
(247 posts)Trump has a lot of experience being a lying, cheating asshole.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,011 posts)The USA does not deserve to be saddled with the incompetent stupid Republican President Trump.
barbtries
(28,799 posts)no. no. no. he signed up for the job, it was his responsibility to learn how to do it. that annoys the shit out of me.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)with signed disclosure agreements or just suing into the poor house for no reason.
Trump is new at having to follow rules society has.
luvMIdog
(2,533 posts)Texin
(2,596 posts)Trumpolini knew enough to accuse Bill Clinton of justice obstruction by simply hopping onto Loretta Lynch's jet without knowing even what the fuck they were talking about. Ergo, the man knows that attempting to influence an ongoing investigation is not lawful. What is Ryan trying to say here? That the man lost all rational memory from the time he accused the Clintons of interfering into the FBI email flap back during the spring-summer of last year and less than a year later?
Sorry, Paulie. That don't fly. I will buy that the orange Twitler is not acquainted with the truth, ethical behavior or any sense of propriety.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,735 posts)and protocols, he's got no fucking business being president.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,011 posts)Maeve
(42,282 posts)Instead of going in so far over his head....
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)As soon as he actually became President, excuses which are the equivalent of "the dog ate my homework" don't wash anymore.
Heron5
(71 posts)This whole well, sure, hes gonna do stupid, inappropriate stuff on accounta never bein in the gubmint defense is now qualifying as a strategy win in desperate quarters. Sure, 25% of the base actually believes that and are unreachable, but Ryan and his fellow cheerfully complicit enablers are happy to create the illusion of believing it. Buys time to enact their cruel agenda.
Txbluedog
(1,128 posts)is somehow left holding the bag on everything Russia related
Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)It's a bullshit excuse.
Texin
(2,596 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)But of course, President Obama is a constitutional scholar. 45 is just a dolt.
hibbing
(10,098 posts)louis-t
(23,295 posts)He doesn't like to learn. He won't listen to anyone. Like John Wilkes Booth said as he looked at his hands as he lay dying.. "Useless".
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)You know, like installing an air conditioner, flying an airplane, or removing my gallbladder--and then they fuck everything up, I'll make sure I give them a pass when they just shrug and say, "Hey, I'm new at this!"
logosoco
(3,208 posts)doing. Good to have that on record. The republicans own Trump no matter what and using this lame excuse does not change anything. By the time a person gets to the party primary they should be well vetted. Trump was not. And he doesn't seem to know much about vetting others for top roles.
Also, aren't all presidents surrounded by council and staff to help them do things (or in Trumps case NOT do things).
Paul Ryan you are just as ignorant as your man there.
DFW
(54,410 posts)People who kill others with guns deserve a break. "He's new at owning a gun. He isn't steeped on the protocols of triggers and aiming." Oh, well, in THAT case, all is forgiven.............
heaven05
(18,124 posts)and can KMA......................eddie munster looking motherf*****!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)scumbag shithead?
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)every other fucking president
lark
(23,108 posts)Drumpf didn't do this out in the open, he deliberately tricked Comey each time into thinking that he would be there with multiple people around him, then got him alone. First it was the dinner, then the meeting. Sessions knew something was up, was uncomfortable and tried to stay in the room but Drumpf made him leave. He knew he was doing something illegal and tried to keep it hidden. That's not the moves from someone who's naive, but from a fraudulent asshole who knew he was breaking the law and wanted no witnesses.
SunSeeker
(51,574 posts)Someone made the point on MSNBC yesterday, noting how ballistic Trump went when Bill Clinton stopped to talk to his friend Loretta Lynch on the tarmac, saying it was an attempt to influence the investigation involving Hillary. Trump had a whole Tweet storm on that: http://www.inquisitr.com/3263753/donald-trump-twitter-bill-clinton-and-loretta-lynch-meeting/
Shitler knew exactly what he was doing was wrong. That is why he asked everyone to leave the room before he spoke to Comey.
Grammy23
(5,810 posts)I will try it the next time I am in traffic court.
pablo_marmol
(2,375 posts)He knew exactly what he was doing. It was mentioned a couple times during the hearing today, and countless time by the media.
How pathetic.
murielm99
(30,745 posts)Did Sessions possibly advise 45 to meet with Comey alone? Then Sessions and everyone else could have deniability about what happened in the meeting. It would be 45's word against Comey's word and 45 could lie.
I wonder if 45 is smart enough on his own to ask everyone else to leave.
pablo_marmol
(2,375 posts)I vaguely recall reading/hearing that his son-in-law was the last to leave the room, and Rinse Beevis was poking his head in from outside of the room very briefly. Beyond that,
murielm99
(30,745 posts)I think he is nauseating. However, today he called Ryan "silly" for saying this. I agree with Todd.
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)You didn't cut HIM any slack, did you?
Fucking loathesome Republicans.
Julian Englis
(2,309 posts)Yes, the American now know that Trump was frustrated because he's a not very bright, spoiled brat of a socialite heir with poor impulse control who was caught lying, breaking the law, and betraying his country and now is having to pay for his bad acts for once in his life.
Nitram
(22,822 posts)Putz!
FSogol
(45,490 posts)Kablooie
(18,634 posts)randr
(12,412 posts)This sort of thinking from Ryan disqualifies him from the post he holds.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)"And being a 'businessman' ISN'T adequate preparation for the highest political office in the world?"
yurbud
(39,405 posts)Even 5-10 years would be an improvement over Trump.
Or military experience at the level where you have to interact with civilian leadership or coordinate with allied militaries, which requires comparable skills.
Delphinus
(11,831 posts)just how would this fly is the occupant were a Democrat? Exactly - not at all.