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kpete

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Sat Jun 11, 2016, 08:30 AM Jun 2016

Meg Whitman: "Trump is latest in long line of historic demagogues"

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.

How would you explain this to a child? Brown asked Ryan. The speaker appeared uncomfortable.

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.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/06/10/paul-ryan-put-in-the-hot-seat-about-trump-endorsement-at-romney-summit/

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