President Trump watched on television, increasingly angry as House Speaker Paul D. Ryan criticized his handling of the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville. He held the remote control “like a pistol” and yelled for an assistant to get the Republican leader on the phone.



“Paul, do you know why Democrats have been kicking your a-- for decades? Because they know a little word called ‘loyalty,’ ” Trump told Ryan, then a Wisconsin congressman. “Why do you think Nancy [Pelosi] has held on this long? Have you seen her? She’s a disaster. Every time she opens her mouth another Republican gets elected. But they stick with her . . . Why can’t you be loyal to your president, Paul?”



The tormenting continued. Trump recalled Ryan distancing himself from Trump in October 2016, in the days after the “Access Hollywood” video in which he bragged of fondling women first surfaced in The Washington Post.



“I remember being in Wisconsin and your own people were booing you,” Trump told him, according to former West Wing communications aide Cliff Sims. “You were out there dying like a dog, Paul. Like a dog! And what’d I do? I saved your a--.”

Let me be clear––Rep. King’s language is reckless, wrong, and has no place in society. As @HouseGOP leader I will not let this stand. Action will be taken. pic.twitter.com/bgyso5VsPx — Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) January 13, 2019

Thank God @RepThomasMassie is these kids' rep and not @GOPLeader Kevin McCarthy. They'd have been thrown under the bus and harshly condemned based off the very first 50 sec video in the hope of getting patted on the head by the New York Times. — Chris Menahan 🔹 (@infolibnews) January 21, 2019

1) The article claims the photo is from 2015. It's not. It's from 2011. That means all the current kids it tries to smear with it were in elementary school at the time. It has literally nothing to do with them or the incident. — (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) January 22, 2019

But I do like how they got a comment from Phillip's responding to the student's statement. He doesn't dispute any of it, but instead just throws more smears out there by saying they "looked like a lynch mob".



Class act. — (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) January 22, 2019

3) Witnesses to the actual event are completely contradicting the attempts to portray this as something nefarious:https://t.co/gKJvvoNfAq — (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) January 22, 2019

Another person who was at that game (7 years ago!!!): https://t.co/GRRLoXcr06 — (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) January 22, 2019