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The Paul Ryan School of Contortion

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2016

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Weisberg talks to Bret Stephens of The Wall St. Journal about the mental gymnastics Paul Ryan is performing around Donald Trump. Trumpcast is brought to you by Framebridge. It’s never been easier or more affordable to frame all the things you love. Go to Framebridge.com and use promo code TRUMPCAST for 15 percent off your first order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:03.3

If I see a situation where our conservative principles are being distorted,

0:08.0

I'm going to stand up for those conservative principles.

0:10.0

If I see and hear things that I think are wrong,

0:12.3

I'm not going to sit by and say nothing,

0:14.2

because I think I have a duty as a Republican leader to defend Republican principles

0:20.0

and our party's brand if I think they're being distorted.

0:24.2

Climbing a person can't do the job because of their race is sort of like the textbook

0:27.6

definition of a racist comment.

0:29.3

This is not conservatism.

0:31.0

You can't make this up sometimes.

0:32.9

But I don't think there's any place in a campaign

0:35.0

for anything that can look like is an anti-Semitic image.

0:37.6

Standing on his own, would Donald Trump be a good president of the United States?

0:41.2

That's not the question we have in front of us.

0:50.3

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast, the show about the man who says he would have prevented

0:55.2

September 11th if he'd been president at the time.

0:58.1

That's Donald Trump.

0:59.6

I'm Jacob Weisberg.

1:01.0

The countdown is on.

1:02.3

It's 95 days to the election.

1:04.8

That's just 95 more days for this show in Shallah,

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