Former House Speaker Paul Ryan says he's not voting for Trump : 'Character is too important'

[ificandream]

Source: Yahoo Finance

Akiko Fujita

Paul Ryan has no interest in giving Donald Trump another chance come November. The former House speaker told Yahoo Finance on Tuesday that he doesn't plan to vote for the former president, adding he would be writing in a Republican candidate instead.

“Character is too important for me,” Ryan told us at the Milken Institute Global Conference. “[The presidency] is a job that requires the kind of character [Trump] doesn’t have.”

Ryan, who left the speakership in 2019, has been vocal in his opposition of Trump since. During a Monday panel, Ryan warned about the stakes in the upcoming election, saying Trump would be “bad on NATO, bad on alliances, bad on Europe, and bad on trade."

“Democracy is being tested in two very specific ways. One within, with our polarization eating each other alive,” said Ryan, who is now vice chairman and partner at private equity firm Solamere Capital. “The second one is from [the outside], from authoritarian regimes who are basically saying they got the mojo, they can make the decisions faster, they can beat democracy.”

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[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Fireworks!

Let them eat themselves.

[BadGimp]

2. W O W

That's a surprise to me.

[MiniMe]

3. BUT, is he voting for Biden?

[riversedge]

5. Given that Ryan thinks Character is so important, my guess he will think of it as a duty and vote

for someone. Who???

But he also has strong feelings for democracy --and our allies. So maybe Biden. I somehow do not think he would waste his vote on a third party or write-in.

[John Shaft]

7. From the article:

"The former House speaker told Yahoo Finance on Tuesday that he doesn't plan to vote for the former president, adding he would be writing in a Republican candidate instead."

[speak easy]

12. "writing in a Republican candidate instead." Himself.

[rpannier]

14. Whether he votes Biden or not

It's still one less vote for Trump in Wisconsin -- which I consider the most important thing since WI is predicted to be close

[NanaCat]

15. Post says he's writing in someone else

So he's still too stupid and traitorous to do the best thing.

This mealy-mouthed douchebaggery of voting for himself will have to suffice.

What? You think he'll actually vote for someone other than himself? Come on.

[marble falls]

4. Screw you Paul Ryan, you're part of the problem. Where in the fuck were you in 2016.

[Qutzupalotl]

6. He could have impeached Trump in 2017

over emoluments. But evidently tax cuts for the rich are more important than character or the Constitution.

[Astraea]

8. F*cker

If you really cared, you'd be voting for Biden, not some chickenshit write-in candidate.

[Kennah]

9. Stay away from windows, dude

[BaronChocula]

10. Says the man who still sits

on the board of directors of fox news. Character is too important unless salary is involved.

[dchill]

11. Ha ha! HA HA HAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!

Who told you, Paul?

[rpannier]

13. I'll take it. Esp since he's from Wisconsin. One less Trump vote

But coming from vice chairman and partner at private equity firm Solamere Capital doesn't leave me warm

[NanaCat]

16. As if this slimeball knows anything about character

Slimy douchebag. You just know that when he says he's writing in an R name, that means the skeeve is voting for himself.

[no_hypocrisy]

17. Hey Paul! Would you vote for TSF IF

you knew he was going to extend YOUR tax cuts past 2025?

[tanyev]

18. I don't know how it is where Paul Ryan votes,

but in Texas, if you’re voting on a machine, there is no option to write in a name. The only way that option appears is if someone has filed as a write-in candidate. And I suspect an absentee ballot (Republican sacrilege!) with Votey McVoterton scrawled next to a race that doesn’t have any write-in candidates would be cause for throwing out that ballot.

[FakeNoose]

19. He's saying it out loud and I respect him for that

A lot of these Repukes are thinking the same way, but they're too scared to say it out loud.

I really wish Paul Ryan would tell us he's voting for BIDEN, but that's probably too much to ask.

[NowsTheTime]

23. If a former Republican speaker of the house is declaring he won't vote for tfg...that's a good thing.

[Aristus]

20. Trump has been a godsend to feckless Republicans.

Simply by not endorsing him, they can cast themselves as reasonable, and acting in the country’s best interests. Instead of anti-American dickheads.

[truthisfreedom]

21. Stay out of small planes. Don't drink tea with strangers.

Don’t walk home alone.

[Zambero]

22. Sounds like Dick Cheney is gaining momentum