“But there’s some of those people who are for me. I’m against all that,” he reportedly said. Trump admitted there were “some bad people.” “I can’t backstab the people who support me.” Ryan noted the presence of white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville. These are my people,” Trump raged at Ryan in response. Trump phoned Ryan and screamed about him not being “in the foxhole with me,” according to the book. Ryan reportedly told Trump he had “a moral leadership obligation to get this right and not declare there is a moral equivalency here.” Ryan responded to Trump’s infamous “both sides” rhetoric about the violence at the gathering with a tweet calling white supremacy “repulsive.” Trump was apoplectic with Ryan over his comment, according to excerpts from The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward and Robert Costa’s upcoming tell-all Peril that Insider published Wednesday. So while it’s not at all surprising, it’s nevertheless extremely disturbing to learn that back in August 2017, not only did Trump praise a group of white nationalists and neo-Nazis and claim it had some very fine people among it, he referred to said group as “my people” while arguing with then House Speaker Paul Ryan over his remarks.ĭonald Trump flipped out at then House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) for condemning white supremacists after the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, a new book claims. history? Or threw an absolute shit fit over the removal of statue of a Confederate general who thought Black people should be white people’s property, insisting said general was one of the greatest military leaders of all time? Obviously, if we were to include everything, we‘d be here all day. Department of Justice expert said oversaw the worst pattern of racial profiling by a law enforcement agency in U.S. from seven predominantly Muslim nations? Or called Mexicans rapists and criminals? Or pardoned a guy a U.S. helping start an entire movement around the lie that the country’s first Black president wasn’t born here and describing Baltimore, whose population is majority Black, as a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess” where “ no human being” would “want to live.” But wait, you say, what about the time he banned travel to the U.S. The man is and always has been an out and out racist, and while the examples to back this up are too numerous to mention, just a small sampling includes calling for the execution of five Black and Latino teenagers telling four congresswoman of color to “ go back” to the “totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,” when three-quarters of the group “came from” the U.S. He said he had to get used to the "free flow of conversation."Īsked for comment, the White House referred to a statement provided to The Washington Post before the book’s release in October, criticizing Shulkin for profiting off his time in office and sharing "outlandish" claims about conversations with Trump.Say what you will about Donald Trump, but the man has always said that everyone should be treated equally, no matter the religion they practice or the color of their skin, and in his four years in the White House, he never once gave anyone any reason to believe he had a single ounce of prejudice in his body. Sometimes it would relate directly to the area that I had responsibility for, but oftentimes it was about world events or things on his calendar or schedule," Shulkin said in an interview last week. "He would talk about what was on his mind. In a chapter titled "Team Chaos," Shulkin recounts Oval Office meetings and nighttime phone calls in which Trump asked about topics Shulkin had no expertise in, such as what to do about North Korea or whether he should move the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. During Shulkin’s interview for the Cabinet post at Trump Tower, he wrote, the president-elect remarked that he’s a "good-looking guy." Trump sought advice on Shulkin's hiring from Marvel Entertainment chairman – and Mar-a-Lago member – Ike Perlmutter.
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