Ryan doesn't want to "pre-judge" whether Flynn did anything wrong. Here's what he said re: Hillary..

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5. RE: Shostakovich

Well, pangaia, your reference to Dmitri Shostakovich caused me to do a little research. Thank you. I wasn't really aware of the depth of his personal problems, even though I graduated from a conservatory. I love much of his music, especially the Tenth Symphony.

It's a fascinating history and I can't imagine the Arts being commanded by the government today. They just don't play the same role as they did in the Soviet Union, pre-TV and pre-internet.

With respect to Trump, he wouldn't even know the names of today's prominent composers or nearly any other artist, for that matter. The commercial music business certainly isn't dominated by the government and so-called serious or classical music has shrunken so much that its cultural impact is tiny.

Trump will be defeated. The corruption around him is just too thick and dark. And he is epically stupid.

Plus, he's an idiot.