Donald Trump appeared to accuse House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., on Wednesday of being involved in a “sinister” plan to sabotage his presidential bid, just 27 days before the election.
“Already, the Republican nominee has a massive, a massive disadvantage and especially when you have the leaders not putting their weight behind the people,” Trump said in Ocala, Fla., as he launched into a riff about GOP leaders who have denounced him and withdrawn their support.
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“They’re not putting their weight behind the people,” Trump repeated, drawing boos from the crowd.
“Instead of calling me and saying, ‘Congratulations. You did a great job. You absolutely destroyed [Hillary Clinton] in the debate,'” Trump said he didn’t hear from Ryan at all after Sunday’s presidential debate.
A day later, Ryan told Republican lawmakers on a conference call that he would no longer defend Trump and intended to spend the remaining weeks before Election Day protecting the GOP’s congressional majorities.
“Wouldn’t you think that Paul Ryan would call and say, ‘Good going?'” Trump asked the crowd. “You’d think that they’d say, ‘Great going, Don. Let’s go, let’s beat this crook. She’s a crook. Let’s beat her, we gotta stop it.’
“No, he doesn’t do that,” Trump said of Ryan. “There’s a whole deal going on over there. I mean, you know, there’s a whole deal going on [and] we’re going to figure it out. I always figure things out.
“But there’s a whole sinister deal going on,” he repeated.
He also warned that this election cycle “is the last time you’ll ever have a chance to save our country.”
