Paul Ryan’s Quest to Really, Truly Unify with Donald Trump

“His personality?” Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said, raising his eyebrows and brightening his eyes, when he was asked, at a press conference, about his meeting with Donald Trump, on Thursday morning, at the headquarters of the Republican National Committee. “I thought he’s—very good personality. He is a very warm and genuine person.” Ryan shrugged. “Like I said, I met him for like thirty seconds in 2012.” That was the year in which Ryan served as Mitt Romney’s Vice-Presidential running mate, and in which Romney flew to Las Vegas to get Trump’s endorsement, publicly flattered him, and featured him in radio ads. And it was a year after Trump’s advocacy of birtherism had reached its height. “So we really don’t know each other,” Ryan continued. “And we started to get to know each other. So I actually had a very pleasant exchange with him.” Reporters needed to understand, however, that he wasn’t ready to share everything Trump had said to him; they had been two men learning to trust each other, discussing things that were important and “personal, in some senses.”

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