Ryan grilled at Romney summit, where a CEO compares Trump to Hitler
Source: MSN/Washington Post
Ryan's closed-door session attended by about 300 elite Republican donors and business executives also highlighted his differences with his friend and ally, Romney, who tapped him as his vice-presidential running mate and is now an avowed leader of the Never Trump movement.
Campbell Brown, a former CNN anchor and founder of the education news site the74.org, moderated the session with Ryan and grilled him about his decision. She told him that her young son, who knows and admires Ryan, came into the bedroom the morning after he had announced his support for Trump dismayed by the news.
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Reporters were excluded from the off-the-record session, but the exchanges were described later by three people in the room spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to share what had happened.
One of the toughest questions for Ryan came from Meg Whitman, the chief executive of Hewlett-Packard and a longtime friend of Romney's who helped bankroll a Republican anti-Trump super PAC this spring. Whitman asked Ryan how he could endorse someone with, in her judgment, such poor character and whose campaign has been based on personal attacks and division. According to two people present, Whitman said Trump is the latest in a long line of historic demagogues, explicitly comparing him to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.
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Of course, when you have Republicans openly praying for the death of President Obama, and Romney himself capturing the nomination in 2012 on a platform of making life so unpleasant for immigrants that they self-deport, do you really have to look far as to why Trump has been selected as the standard bearer of the Republican party?
dhill926
(16,351 posts)must really suck...
bucolic_frolic
(43,258 posts)That didn't go over so well for Jimmy Carter in his debate with Raygun.
rurallib
(62,444 posts)without a fight breaking out.
Used to be 3 republicans would get together, one would be leader and the other 2 unquestioning followers
Warpy
(111,332 posts)at least for a while, and when the going got tough, they were supplied with slave labor.
Hitler can happen anywhere, it seems, and the first people to welcome him are his brethren in the business community.
tblue37
(65,483 posts)He is young and the media have polshed his pathetic credentials to the point where he could be a danger in the future, but those two actions might have (hope, hope, hope) tarnished him enough to damage his future prospects as a presidential candidate.
keithbvadu2
(36,885 posts)If he was, the Bush family would be supporting him like they did in WWll.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)Trump dissed her lil Jebbie and that evil old witch won't let that go by unpunished.