Paul Ryan: ‘We Stick with Trump, We Keep Losing Elections.’ Calls Himself ‘Never-Again-Trumper’

Former House Speaker Paul Ryan trashed Trump during an appearance on ABC’s “This Week” with host Jonathan Karl.

Ryan worked to derail Trump’s agenda while he was House Speaker from 2017-2019.

Audio of Ryan revealed that he told his U.S. House of Representatives that he was abandoning then-GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.

Breitbart reported:

In the Oct. 10, 2016 call, from right after the Access Hollywood tape of Trump was leaked in the weeks leading up to the election, Ryan does not specify that he will never defend Trump on just the Access Hollywood tape—he says clearly he is done with Trump altogether.

“I am not going to defend Donald Trump—not now, not in the future,” Ryan says in the audio, obtained by Breitbart News and published here for the first time ever.

The October conference call apparently was intended only for House Republican members. It’s unclear which or how many House Republicans took part in the call, whether the participants knew it was being recorded, who made the recording, or whether a recording exists of the entire call. The remarks on the portion provided to Breitbart News certainly sound like they were coming from Speaker Ryan, who seemed to be abandoning his party’s presidential nominee altogether just weeks before the election. He says not only will he not defend the Access Hollywood comments, but he will not campaign with Trump at all between this call on Oct. 10, 2016, and the general election for the presidency on Nov. 8—and that Ryan would not defend Trump on anything generally.

Here’s the audio:

Paul Ryan continues to trash President Trump.

On ABC’s “This Week,” he proudly called himself a “Never-Again-Trumper.”

“I’m proud of the accomplishments [during the Trump administration] — of the tax reform, the deregulation and criminal justice reform — I’m really excited about the judges we got on the bench, not just the Supreme Court, but throughout the judiciary,” Paul Ryan told Jonathan Karl in an exclusive interview that aired Sunday.

“But I am a Never-Again-Trumper. Why? Because I want to win, and we lose with Trump. It was really clear to us in ’18, in ’20 and now in 2022.”

“I personally think the evidence is really clear. The biggest factor was the Trump factor … I think we would have won places like Arizona, places like Pennsylvania, New Hampshire had we had a typical, traditional conservative Republican, not a Trump Republican,” Ryan said.

WATCH:

EXCLUSIVE: Just days after Donald Trump announces his third bid for the White House, former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan calls himself a "Never-Again-Trumper."

The full interview with @JonKarl: https://t.co/v2FLG9cPFm pic.twitter.com/lyCGUCZD6X

— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) November 20, 2022