Ryan: We Didn't Learn Anything New From Comey Hearing

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo



By CAITLIN MACNEAL Published MARCH 21, 2017, 11:04 AM EDT

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) on Tuesday said that he did not learn anything "new" from FBI Director James Comey's testimony about Russian interference in the U.S. election. He also reiterated that he has not seen any evidence indicating that President Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russian government officials.

"I don’t think we learned anything new yesterday with Comey's testimony," Ryan said at a press briefing.

He noted that the House Intelligence Committee was still investigating Russia's attempts to influence the 2016 election, but he said that he has not seen evidence yet linking the Trump campaign to Russia.

"It is very clear that we’ve seen no evidence and have been presented with no evidence that Donald Trump or his staff were involved in this with the Russians," he said.

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Ryan so badly wants

to take our benefits, kill us, that he will look the other way no matter what the Russian agents in the White House do.

Paul Ryan is going to take our benefits. Paul Ryan is going to kill many of the people reading this board right now.

[Liberalagogo]

2. Of course you didn't learn anything, Ryan

Considering where your head is.

[vlyons]

4. my thoughts exactly, except

you said it much more politely

[Freethinker65]

10. Yep. Ryan is complicit

[lark]

3. Since it appears Ryan was part of the collusion,

of course he'd downplay it totally, same as Drumpf and for same reason.

[Sunlei]

22. yesterdays Comey hearing was PUBLIC, Ryan gets to hear all the stuff FBI can't make PUBLIC

[furtheradu]

27. Ding-ding-DING!!

YOU said it!

[WinkyDink]

5. Spin, spin, spin!

[underpants]

6. Well learned that Trump is a paranoid liar. We learned that the President is being investigated bybt

By the FBI. When I say "investigated" that means there won't be any evidence. Ryan is a pinhead.

[Jonny Appleseed]

26. Most of us already knew that tbh

[BeyondGeography]

7. Like his career, that statement won't age well

[Friend or Foe]

8. Not surprising Eddie....

Since you haven't learned anything new since you read Ayn Rand's sophomoric novel Atlas Shrugged.

We can never look to the likes of Paul Ryan, or Rancid Penis, or Lyin Ted for intellectual guidance. Among them, they have the brain power of 100 men. Brain diseased men, but men nonetheless.

[yellowcanine]

9. Ryan probably didn't learn anything new. He already knows Trump is a traitor and has made his peace

with that.

[turbinetree]

11. Hey Eddie Munster did you put fingers in both of your EARS

and did you sing lalalalalalalalala as loud as you could.

Your so full of ANY RAND S***T

Your "guy" you know, the sexual predator in chief, LIED, So you believe him more than the U.S. Intelligence Agency's, you do realize that there is an "ACTIVE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION" being carried out by, I don't know, the FBI , or is that one agency that you want to help defund, so that we the people don't get an answer to how treason was committed


What are your loyalties there Eddie Munster party or country, me thinks your fascist party and its agenda is more important in your wet dream

[Aviation Pro]

12. Who's 'We' Eddie Munster?

'You' didn't learn anything because you have a third tier brain.

[Grizzled Ol Granddad]

13. Well, we confirmed that You are an Ostrich

Along with most of your Republicoward colleagues in the House.

[BillyBobBrilliant]

14. It take a degree of intelligence

to be able to learn.

BUSTED!

[MFM008]

15. I predict

Just me, that Mr. Ryan won't survive as speaker very long.
There may be severe blowback from angry constituents who are in life or death situations if his crap passes....
I just don't see it.

[Scruffy1]

16. I take it as an admission of guilt.

He already knows the crimes because he was in on it. The turtles smugness before the election shows me the whole congressional leadership was in on it. If they get their boy on the court it's game, set and match. If they get in trouble they'll just go to the Supremes.

[dalton99a]

18. Yep.

[dchill]

20. That's my take, too.

"We" didn't learn anything new refers to the people who already knew everything there was to know. Because they're complicit, and there are many of them.

[KingCharlemagne]

17. What a pathetic moron. Does anyone take what he says

seriously any more?

[BumRushDaShow]

19. "I dont think we learned anything new " - until

a Federal Grand Jury gets impaneled (if it's not already in process) and starts working on and serving up indictments, after which you might suddenly "learn something new", dumbass.

[Sunlei]

21. 2006-Tillerson & Russian KGB ,motorcycle ride Vacays stopped-because of sanctions was NEW to ME

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) I'm sure you have seen several CLASSIFIED reports NEW to you.

[KewlKat]

23. Well he may not have learned anything new, but I sure as hell did. A criminal investigation

of the Con's camp started well in advance of our 2016 election, July to be exact; no evidence of ANY wrongdoing on President Obama's part in ANY surveillance or that he "wire tapped" the Con or anyone in the Con's camp; that the ru$$ians wanted the Con vs our Hillary and worked with wikileaks to hide their being the ones that stole the information.

there's more, but that's a start.............so lyin ryan knew all of this apparently?

[riversedge]

25. The fact that Comey admitted the FBI was investigating since July was new. yes.

[roamer65]

24. We learned that Paulie is a Putin whore.

See...we did learn something.

[Alice11111]

28. Fuck Ryan. He hasn't learned anything since reading

his last Ayn Rand book 30 years ago.

[dchill]

30. Whoa. I didn't see your post...

until I made mine. I hope DUers are hip to Ayn Rand.

[dchill]

29. No surprise. Ryan has never learned ANYTHING...

since he found Ayn Rand. What else does he need to know?

[Alice11111]

31. Well, great minds think alike, as they say. Ayn Rand,

I read her when she was popular 35 years ago. Seemed like everyone loved her for a while. From the first book, I thought she is a stone cold person. Her stories were interesting and well written, but her philosophy was , To the Selfish go the Spoils.
One of my liberal friends in was really into her at the time, but she always went with the wind.

[dchill]

32. I'm a little behind you. I read ...

Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead in the early 90's, and found them both cringeworthy and dangerous. I think that people (like Paul Ryan and Alan Greenspan) who like and espouse this dreck are just looking for a justifying philosophy for their innate cravenness.

Not to mention that "The Fountainhead" is by far my least favorite Gary Cooper movie. And I really like Gary Cooper.

[Alice11111]

33. Never saw The Fountainhead movie. I would watch it, but

she is so sickening.

Odd couple, Mr. and Mrs. Greenspan, and Mitchell being on MSNBC.

[dchill]

34. Odd indeed. I can't watch her without making the association.

Also, I might add that what made me seek out those books was seeing Bryant Gumbel on the "Today" show say that Atlas Shrugged changed his life. I never looked at him the same after that, but it did explain some feelings I had about him... Nuf said.

[miyazaki]

35. Rofl. He certainly was one of the biggest d-bags on tv. n/t

[dchill]

36. Yep. As we used to say back home...

There's no conceit in his family. He got it all.