Unshackled Trump declares war on GOP
'It is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me,' the Republican
nominee tweets after Ryan abandoned him.
ByLouis Nelson <http://www.politico.com/staff/louis-nelson>10/11/16
11:14 AM EDT
Backed by some of his fiercest allies and with little left to lose
politically, Donald Trump on Tuesday stepped up his attacks
on House Speaker Paul Ryan and the GOP establishment that has suddenly
and decisively turned its back on him.
“It is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me and I can now
fight for America the way I want to,” Trump wrote on
Twitter Tuesday morning, an indication that his already bruising
presidential campaign would be shedding whatever gloves
remained in the election’s final months.
Once reluctant partners with the shared mission of keeping Hillary
Clinton out of the White House, Ryan and Trump are now
public enemies with the Manhattan billionaire accusing the House speaker
on Tuesday morning of being “very weak and ineffective.”
Those attacks, leveled on Twitter, followed Ryan’s decision a day
earlier to abandon Trump, telling GOP lawmakers during a conference
call that he will not campaign with the Republican nominee, nor will he
defend the bombastic and often controversial candidate.
POLITICO reported on Tuesday morning that it’s still possible Ryan will
entirely yank his endorsement.
*“Desite [sic] winning the second debate in a landslide (every poll), it
is hard to do well when Paul Ryan and others give zero support!” **
**Trump wrote on Twitter earlier Tuesday morning, adding an hour later
that “our very weak and ineffective leader, Paul Ryan, had a bad **
**conference call where his members went wild at his disloyalty.”*
He kept it going, essentially declaring war on the GOP. “*With the
exception of cheating Bernie out of the nom the Dems have always **
**proven to be far more loyal to each other than the Republicans!” Trump
later tweeted, following up that blast, with, “Disloyal R's are **
**far more difficult than Crooked Hillary. They come at you from all
sides. They don’t know how to win - I will teach them!”**
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