How Paul Ryan’s attacks on Hillary Clinton could come back to haunt him
During the presidential campaign, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) was one of the most passionate and eloquent defenders of House Republicans’ multipronged investigations of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s actions as secretary of state.
When some accused Republicans of clamoring for investigations of Clinton’s emails and family foundation just to undermine her campaign, Ryan reframed the inquiries as a matter of principle:
.. It probably won’t surprise you to hear that Ryan is not nearly as bullish on investigating Trump as he was Clinton. He has been repeatedly asked over the past week or two how he feels about Trump’s potential for conflicts of interest, and his answer has boiled down to: It’s not my problem.
.. When pressed on it again, Ryan said: “I have every bit of confidence he’s going to get himself right with moving from being the business guy that he is to the president he’s going to become.