By Neil Macdonald, CBC News, June 9, 2016
Republican Speaker says Trump’s comments racist … but he still supports him
So, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the third most important elected official in the United States, thinks it’s better to have a racist in the Oval Office than Hillary Clinton.
That’s not an extrapolation, or a cleverly selective syllogism, ignoring context. It is exactly what Paul Ryan said.
The Speaker stood before cameras and denounced his party’s presumptive nominee for president, and was explicit about why he was doing it.
