Paul Ryan reacted to the news on a Wisconsin radio show. Photo: Jae C. Hong / AP
Speaker Paul Ryan said, "I really don't have anything to add, other than nothing's going to derail what we're doing in Congress," when asked about former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's indictment in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe.
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If you want to understand the rhetorical roots of Trump's Independence Day speech at Mount Rushmore, go back and watch Tucker Carlson's monologues for the past six weeks.
Between the lines: Trump — or rather his speechwriter Stephen Miller — framed the president's opposition to the Black Lives Matter protest movement using the same imagery Carlson has been laying out night after night on Fox.
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The news media has largely moved on, but foreign government officials remain fixated on John Bolton's memoir, "The Room Where It Happened."
Why it matters: Bolton's detailed inside-the-Oval revelations have raised the blood pressure of allies who were already stressed about President Trump's unreliability.