Speaker Paul Ryan on White House Crisis: ‘I Don’t Worry About Things Outside of My Control’ (Video)

‘It Is Obvious There Are Some People Out There Who Want to Harm the President’ Ryan Says

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, the second most powerful elected official in the United States government, says he is not worried about the White House spinning out of control, the President revealing “code word” highly classified intelligence and attempting to obstruct a federal investigation by the FBI. 

“I don’t worry about things that are outside of my control,” the Republican Congressman from Wisconsin told reporters late Wednesday morning.

That should be of great concern to all Americans, first because it’s literally his job to “worry” about everything, and second, because as Speaker of the House, he is the one person who has the most power to make Congress pass a bill to establish a special prosecutor or independent commission to investigate the Trump White House, Trump, and Trump’s associates’ ties to Russia.

Speaker Ryan might want to remember that a new NBC News/WSJ poll finds 78 percent of Americans support an independent commission or special prosecutor to conduct the Russia investigation rather than Congress. 

“It is obvious there are some people out there who want to harm the president,” Speaker Ryan also told reporters Wednesday, as ThinkProgress reported.

“The point is this,” he added. “We can’t deal with speculation and innuendo. There is a lot of politics being played. Our job is to get the facts and be sober about doing that.”

And the creation of an independent commission or appointment of a special prosecutor (or, “special counsel”) would do just that, because the “politics being played” are being played by Republicans.

For example, Ryan today also called former FBI Director Jim Comey’s claim that President trump asked him to drop the investigation in to Mike Flynn – made in a memo written immediately after meeting with President Trump – “allegedly.” Speaker Ryan went on to attack Comey, asking, “Why didn’t he take action at the time?” 

Paul Ryan has made his choice, and it’s not, to quote a phrase, “America first.” It’s the Republican Party first.  

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