Samantha Bee: Trump's 'faithful husky' Paul Ryan needs to 'know when to dump the guy'

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February 16, 2017 4:17 PM

TBS's "Full Frontal" host focuses on the Speaker of the House and why we should care about his allegiance to President Donald Trump.

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In light of recent allegations that President Donald Trump's senior staff have had potentially illegal communications with Russian officials, Samantha Bee thought it was a good time to focus on Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.

"Loyalty is everything to [Trump]," the host said on Wednesday's episode of TBS's "Full Frontal." "And nobody has reacted to that reality better than Speaker of the House and faithful husky Paul Ryan."

Before she explained why we should care about Ryan, she provided some background on the Wisconsin congressman. Over his career, Ryan has built a "solid reputation" as the "conscience" of the Republican party.

"First of all, in today’s Republican party, that’s kind of like saying Moe is the smart Stooge," Bee joked. "How did a principled social and fiscal conservative like Ryan wind up in bed with a bigoted, adulterous grope machine who wants to blow $25 billion on a coyote urinal?"

Over the course of the 2016 election, Ryan had been critical of Trump's presidential candidacy but he endorsed Trump anyway. Bee played several clips of Ryan then backing several of Trump's controversial appointments, statements, and initiatives.

"Ryan spent the rest of the summer feebly condemning every racist thing Trump said or did while refusing to condemn Trump himself," Bee said. "Watching Ryan play moral watchdog was like watching Taylor Swift pretend to be surprised at an award show: bland and fake, but weirdly compelling."

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