House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) said Thursday that the appointment of former FBI Director Robert Mueller as a special counsel for the Justice Department’s Russia investigation was “perfectly appropriate.”
“I believe that the professionals at the Justice Department need to do their jobs independently, objectively and throughly, and I believe that the special counsel, which is Robert Mueller now, helps them do that,” Ryan said at his weekly press conference.
Before the Justice Department’s announcement of Mueller’s selection, most Republicans opposed bringing on a special counsel into the investigation. The calls for a special counsel grew after President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, who was previously overseeing the probe, and after reports that Trump had pressured Comey to drop the probe before firing him.
Ryan said Thursday that the appointment of a special counsel “helps assure people and the Justice Department that they’re going to go do their jobs independently and thoroughly.”
The jackals have their noses in the air and smell blood in the wind.
Except for the Koolaid drinking true believers, the rest will, one by one, move over into the “well, I always had my doubts” group. Ryan is starting to signal that the exodus can start.
The GOP
That’s because Congress refused to their job when they appointed Sessions. I hope that little tape of McCarthy and Ryan gets a lot more attention these next few weeks, they deserve to go down on Trump’s ship along with all the other traitors.
Eddie is under the misapprehension that he still matters.
I can easily imagine the entire repube congressional caucus (Senate and House) is massively hung over from last night’s required binge drinking, which was needed to just be able to sleep
talk about a need to send out resumes, I would venture to guess that there was something just short of 290 X (whatever the number of staff each repube congress critter employs) have been deluging Starbucks franchises this morning
oh yeah, in my opinion, Ryan is a fucking asshole