GET CHUBBY:...Trump In Miami, Paul Ryan On Him...

 

By EDUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ

McALLEN, Texas | Something about all of this leads me to say that the sarcastic Miami novelist Elmore Leonard would've written Donald J. Trump into his novel, Get Shorty. Now-gone Leonard had an ear for the ridiculous in dialogue he spread freely in all of his novels set in Southern Florida, like Jackie Brown and Riding The Rap.

Well, somewhere in there he'd also find room for one Paul Ryan, the Republican former Speaker of the House of Representatives and Mitt Romney's Veep running mate in 2012 shown in photo above.

Ryan would have been the no-nonsense FBI tough, the one setting things straight against the cornered villain, in this case Republican Trump, the former president now twice-indicted and the one looking to get out of prison by again running for the presidency.

Ryan let go a nice salvo against Trump today.

Ryan said it’s too early for Republicans to choose a primary candidate to support in the 2024 race. But one thing is clear, he told "CBS Mornings" on Tuesday: It should be anyone but Donald Trump. "This one’s national security. This one’s different," Ryan said of how the federal case differs from the criminal charges Trump faces in New York. "I think this goes beyond some petty thing."

Throwing something for the climax in the tale, Ryan said Trump has a "great core of support" and he understands why some believe that there’s more than some "political sting here," but the fact remains that the allegations are serious.

"I can’t help but think the weight and the baggage of all this - and this one’s national security - I think we want a nominee who’s not weighed down by so much baggage in order to win this election," he said.

The lanky, high-neck Ryan went on to call Trump a weak candidate in general. He said Trump "hasn’t won anything since 2016," noting that the Republican Party lost the House in 2018 and then the White House and the Senate in 2020. Ryan said his party would have taken control of the Senate last November if it had "not been for Trump and his nominees in some of our key primary elections."

"If we nominate anybody not named Donald Trump, we’re going to beat Joe Biden," he said.

Cut to the scene in which Ryan nods to the attendant press and waves an adios. Someone stage right pulls the curtain shut and a slice of musical soundtrack offers a sort of strolling Cuban drumbeat as the lights go out.

Trump's fall-from-grace story has a bit of a way to go, but, already, people are stacking up the facts and scenes in anticipation of writing the Big Book on him.

Paul Ryan, the traditional Republican who can't stand Trump, will be in there...

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EDITOR'S NOTE: Really, we just couldn't help but note Donald John Trump's laughable assessment of his arraignment today in Miami on 37 felony counts, as charged by the U.S. Dept. of Justice. Upon arriving in federal court, Trump said: "...today is 'one of the saddest days in the history of our country'...