Speaker Ryan to GOP: Won't defend Trump now or in future

Monday, October 10, 2016
House Speaker Paul Ryan is all but conceding Hillary Clinton will be the next president.

In a conference call Monday morning with House Republicans Ryan tells them that he will not defend Donald Trump or campaign with him for the next 30 days.
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Instead he says he will spend "his entire energy making sure that Hillary Clinton does not get a blank check with a Democrat-controlled Congress."

That's according to a person on the call who demanded anonymity to describe the private conversation.
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