Donald Trump is demanding that Fox remove former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) from the board of directors of Fox News’ parent company weeks after appeared on the network to bash Trump.
“Nobody can ever trust Fox News, and I am one of them, with the weak and ineffective RINO, Paul Ryan, on its Board of Directors,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. “He’s a total lightweight, a failed and pathetic Speaker of the House, and a very disloyal person. Romney was bad, but Paul Ryan made him look worse. As a team, they never had a chance. Rupert and Lachlan, get that dog off your Board – You don’t need him. ALL YOU NEED IS TRUMP.”
Trump’s attack on Ryan comes more than a week after the former House Speaker told Fox News host Neil Cavuto in an interview that Trump is “unfit” for office and that he would not be supporting him in November.
“I voted for him in 2016, hoping that there was going to be a different kind of person in office, and I do think character is a really important issue. If you put yourself above the constitution, as he has done, that means you’re unfit for office,” Ryan said on Fox News’ Your World with Neil Cavuto.
“I think it really just is character at the end of the day,” he added. “And the fact that if you’re willing to put yourself above the Constitution – an oath you swear when you take office, federal office, whether it’s president or a member of Congress – you swear an oath to the Constitution and if you’re willing to suborn it to yourself, I think that makes you unfit for office.”
