'No such wiretap existed': Paul Ryan slams the door on Trump's Obama wiretap conspiracy

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory

BRAD REED
16 MAR 2017 AT 11:34 ET

While taking questions from reporters on Thursday, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) slammed the door on President Donald Trump’s theory that former President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower.

“The intelligence committees — in their continuing, ongoing, and widening investigation into all things Russia — got to the bottom, at least so far with respect to our intelligence community, that no such wiretap existed,” said Ryan.

Ryan was then asked by a reporter about Trump’s interview with Fox News’s Tucker Carlson in which the president insisted that the wiretap had occurred. “I didn’t see his interview,” Ryan replied curtly.

Congressional Republicans have grown increasingly frustrated with Trump’s habit of making wild, unsupported assertions on Twitter that they frequently have to spend time investigating.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/no-such-wiretap-existed-paul-ryan-slams-the-door-on-trumps-obama-wiretap-conspiracy/

[gibraltar72]

1. Trump lied

color me shocked.

[FakeNoose]

17. Ryan grew a pair

...I'm even more surprised.

[BeyondGeography]

2. President-by-Default Ryan sounds like he's feeling his oats

[leftynyc]

6. And just yesterday

He wasn't allowing the degenerate to pretend he had nothing to do with his health care bill. He announced that donnie helped write it.

[moonscape]

11. I'm inclined to believe T on this one - I don't

think he's engaged or knowledgeable enough to have much to do with Ryancare. Maybe Ryan presented points in the bill with his twist-on-reality take (Americans will love it! You campaigned on it!), and T went along.

[Cosmocat]

12. When he isn't engaging in the obligatory ass kissing of 45

to appease the 1/3 of his caucus that is more batshit crazy than he is ...

[WhiteTara]

3. Does this mean

that President Obama can sue as a private citizen for being libeled/slandered? I hope so.

[leftynyc]

7. Yes, he can

but I doubt he will. He'll look so much better by just shaking his head about it.

[titaniumsalute]

8. With all due respect...let's stop with this BS

Obama isn't going to sue anyone for slander. It simply isn't going to happen. He'd look wimpy and petty if he did that. I'm sure he wants to focus his efforts on the major problem of vote fraud, vote intimidation, etc. then litigation of the President.

[0rganism]

20. i think he would still be considered a "public figure" for purposes of a slander suit

which means having to show intent to harm

but ... Trump did say he was going to "tighten" those laws, so maybe next year?

[Blanks]

4. This is Ryan's response to...

Breitbart's leak of Ryan audio not supporting Trump.

[rivegauche]

5. What a gutless sack of shit he is.

"I didn't see the interview" is so fucking pathetic.

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. I don't know - that seems pretty dismissive of Trump, to me

It comes across as "Trump's interviews aren't worth my time".

[ekelly]

13. I thought the same thing

I read it as "I just told you no wiretap existed. The interview is irrelevant".

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Every time Drumpf lies

every single one of them publicly gives him the benefit of the doubt and will repeatedly circle the wagons to protect him. And each time they do that, the albatross around their necks gets heavier and heavier and will soon be impossible to dislodge.

[NYC Liberal]

14. "Republicans have grown increasingly frustrated with Trumps habit of making wild, unsupported

assertions"

Yeah. Congressional Republicans prefer making their OWN "wild, unsupported assertions", and they don't like others doing it for them.

[Bengus81]

15. Never got traction eh...Donnie??!?! What's next??? n/t

[Ilsa]

16. It's past time to get under donnie's skin and insist he apologize to

the last legitimate president.

[tclambert]

18. But does Trump own a microwave?

You know, I'm thinking he might not have one. In Trump's world, that's something for servants or women.

[Kimchijeon]

19. So when will these spineless twits finally have enough?

It's bad enough we all have to waste time and $$ pretending Twitler's baloney is worth "investigating." Time to work on impeaching him, get them outta there.