House Speaker Paul Ryan faced the cameras Tuesday morning for the first time after National Security Advisor Michael Flynn's resignation, and did his best to minimize the damage done to the Republican Party and the Trump regime by the ballooning scandal. As usual, Ryan's best was lies. The first one is this: Trump asked for Flynn's resignation.
That isn't how it happened, if you listen to anyone in the White House. It was Flynn's decision, according to the dogged statements from Kellyanne Conway, which so far are the official word from the Trump regime. "The president is very loyal," she told Matt Lauer on the Today show Tuesday morning. "He's a very loyal person and by night's end Mike Flynn thought was best to resign. He knew he'd become a lightning rod and he made that decision." He—Flynn—made that decision.
Then he doubled down on that lie by embellishing it with another one.
"As soon as they realized they were being misled by [Flynn], they asked for his resignation." Called out on that by a reporter who asked him about reports that the White House had known for weeks about Flynn's call and that he was compromised by his Russia ties, Ryan lamely answered "I'm not going to prejudge any of the circumstances surrounding this."
He won't "prejudge" the Trump regime, but he sure doesn't have a problem with lying for it.