RNC Chair: Trump Meeting With Ryan Was ‘Positive’ And ‘Cooperative’

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus speaks at the Republican Party of Arkansas' Victory 365 center in Little Rock, Ark., Tuesday, Aug.19, 2014. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus declined to provide details about House Speaker Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) Thursday meeting with Donald Trump during an interview with MSNBC, but repeatedly described the meeting as “positive” and “cooperative.”

Preibus hosted the meeting at the RNC’s offices adjacent to the Capitol complex.

“It was a positive mood. It was a mood of cooperation and a feeling that it’s time to unify the party. And I think both parties wanted to do that. It was great. It was really a positive step toward unification,” Priebus said when asked about the mood at the meeting.

When asked where Ryan and Trump were able to agree and whether the two discussed Trump’s proposed Muslim ban, Priebus said he would not “get into an specifics.”

“I hate to spoil the fun, but it was a private meeting, private conversation. Certainly everything you’re hearing about is accurate, that it was all positive,” he said. “It was cooperative, it was great.”

Priebus also addressed whether Trump will force changes to the Republican Party platform.

“He’s in the line with the platform. There’s never 100 percent [unity] on anything. I don’t think most of us agree with our own spouses 100 percent of the time,” he said. “But like Reagan said, my 80 percent friend is not my 20 percent enemy, we believe that.”

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  1. Priebus admitted it was hard to hear everything with his head in the toilet bowl…

  2. “I hate to spoil the fun, but it was a private meeting, private
    conversation. Certainly everything you’re hearing about is accurate,
    that it was all positive,” he said. “It was cooperative, it was great.”

    Good job, Priebus, you’re even sounding like Trump now. Soon you’ll be giving him long wet tongue bathes and thanking him for the pleasure of it. Just don’t pee on the rug, Priebus, those carpets are hard to clean.

  3. RNC Chair: Trump Meeting With Ryan Was ‘Positive’ And ‘Cooperative’

    Not according to Ryan. Am I enjoying this? Why yes–yes I am!

  4. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    I’m pretty sure Reince’s only function there was to provide table service.

  5. Like an incompetent detective trying to persuade a child molester to tell where he has buried the bodies.

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