As more sexual assault allegations emerge, Ryan lectures students on importance of voting Trump
Without mentioning his name, Ryan warns of dire consequences if Trump doesn’t become president.
As new sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump emerged Friday afternoon, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) was in Madison, Wisconsin, lecturing college students about why they should vote for Trump.
Ryan didn’t mention Trump’s name, but painted a dystopian picture of America under the rule of Hillary Clinton and her fellow Democrats. In short, Ryan believes America will be a terrible place unless Trump becomes president.
“What vision do Hillary Clinton and her party offer the people? They want an America that does not stand out,” Ryan said. “They want an America that is ordinary — there is kind of a gloom and grayness to things… we are ruled by our betters, by a cold and unfeeling bureaucracy that replaces original thinking.”
“It’s a place where liberty is always under assault,” he added. “Where passion, the very stuff of life is extinguished. That is the America Hillary Clinton wants.”
Ryan denounced the alleged evils of “liberal progressivism,” and argued that students who are concerned about the future greatness of America shouldn’t vote for Clinton or other Democrats on the ticket.
“If we do not act, we will not just lose our quality of life, our standard of living — we will lose the spirit that makes America exceptional in the first place,” Ryan said. “If Hillary Clinton wins and she is given control of Washington, if she is given control of Congress, it will not be long before we come to that precipice.”
The case Ryan made for Trump comes just days after the House Speaker reportedly told Republican caucus members he was done defending his party’s presidential nominee. That decision came in the wake of the October 7 release of a 2005 video of Trump bragging about sexual assault — remarks Ryan said “sickened” him.
But Ryan still hasn’t rescinded his endorsement of Trump. And as he spoke in Madison, news broke of yet another woman alleging Trump groped her. Trump’s camp insists all the women accusing Trump of sexual assault are lying, but many of their stories eerily sync up with behavior Trump bragged about on the 2005 video — forcible kissing and genital grabbing. Many of their accusations are corroborated by people they told about the incidents at the time they occurred.
He still won’t rescind his endorsement of a candidate whose conduct he finds “sickening.”thinkprogress.org
On Thursday, First Lady Michelle Obama made an impassioned case that Trump’s pattern of misogyny disqualifies him from the presidency. Yet Paul Ryan is still more concerned about a President Hillary Clinton pursuing a progressive vision for America than he is about the possibility that Trump — a man who Ryan himself has denounced on numerous occasions, who suggested Thursday that the women accusing him of sexual assault are too ugly for their allegations to be taken seriously, and whose campaign is reportedly bracing for even more assault accusations to go public — is elected.