House Speaker Paul Ryan visits the the Iron Dome missile defense system in Israel on his recent trip to the Middle East. (Photo: IDF Spokesperson Unit)
Yahoo News: Paul Ryan says Middle East allies thanked him for taking on Trump
Fresh from a trip to the Middle East, Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan told reporters on Thursday that American allies in the region — including Israel — thanked him for taking on Donald Trump over his call to bar Muslim immigrants from the United States.
“When you see our beliefs, our values — and conservatism’s principles — being disfigured, you have to speak out,” Ryan said. “People over there knew about it and thanked me for doing it.”
Asked whether that included Israel, the speaker replied: “Yeah.”
Ryan aides had officially arranged the roughly 40-minute breakfast session to discuss his first overseas trip since assuming the speaker’s mantle, a voyage that took him to Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. But Ryan used the back-and-forth to lay out an election-year vision for the Republican Party’s foreign policy — one at odds with what he called President Obama’s “massive retrenchment” and Trump’s “Fortress America” unilateralism but also the military interventionism of George W. Bush.
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WNU Editor: Paul Ryan should listen more to what the Republican base wants .... not what leaders from the Middle East are telling him. He may be proud that Middle Eastern leaders are thanking him .... but this only solidifies Donald Trump's support within the Party.
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