While he was in office, Paul Ryan said he was very comfortable with his decisions.
He said in the book that he would do it the same way again.
Ryan retired after two years into Trump's term as president.
According to a new book by Mark Leibovich, a staff writer at The Atlantic, former House Speaker Paul Ryan was very comfortable with the decisions he made regarding Donald Trump.
Ryan told Leibovich in the book "Thank You for Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission" that he decided to share his feelings with Trump privately, like other Republicans who were able to work with him.
Ryan shepherded legislation through the House that reduced the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
He told Leibovich that he could look in the mirror at the end of the day and say he avoided a tragedy. I advanced this goal.
Ryan wouldn't tell Leibovich what "tragedy" he was referring to, but some felt that he should have been more aggressive.
Washington Post columnist George Will wrote in June of last year that Ryan "waged his dignity on the patently false proposition that it is possible to have sustained transactions with Trump."
Ryan told Leibovich that he doesn't regret how he dealt with Trump.
Ryan is very comfortable with the decisions he has made. I would do the same thing again.
He wanted to know if some people would have preferred that he chide the president when he made controversial comments.
Ryan said that some people want him to start a civil war in the party and not achieve anything.
Ryan was the GOP vice presidential nominee in 2012 and held the Speaker's gavel.
Ryan was willing to work with Democrats to pass legislation.
Leibovich wrote in the book that Ryan's departure was inevitable.
TheMAGA types did not trust him. He was depicted as a weak supplicant and one of Trump's chief enablers.
Ryan gave a speech in support of Tom Rice, who voted to impeach Trump for inciting insurrection. Ryan said that more Republicans would have voted for Trump's removal from office, but they lacked the guts to do so.
Ryan said there were a lot of people who wanted to vote for Tom but didn't have the guts. A lot of people who say they're going to vote their conscience, they're going to vote for the constitution, but when it gets hard to do that, they don't do it.
Trump called Ryan a "pathetic loser" and a "weak RINO" after he responded to Ryan.
Rice lost to Fry in the GOP primary.
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