POLITICS/PAUL RYAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Jeanine Pirro, a Fox News host, is a longtime friend of President Trump. So when Mr. Trump said on Twitter on Saturday — a day after his crushing defeat in the House on health care — that people should watch her show that night, political observers began guessing what was in store.
What she delivered was a diatribe against the House speaker, Paul D. Ryan.
‘Paul Ryan needs to step down as speaker of the House,’ Ms. Pirro, a former prosecutor, said at the opening of her show. ‘The reason? He failed to deliver the votes on his health care bill.’
In Ms. Pirro’s telling, Mr. Ryan let Mr. Trump down by not doing his share of the work in corralling Republican votes to fulfill a seven-year promise to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act — a view held by a number of the president’s advisers.
‘Speaker Ryan, you come in with all your swagger and experience and you sell ’em a bill of goods, which ends up a complete and total failure, and you allow our president in his first 100 days to come out of the box like that, based on what?’ Ms. Pirro said.”
-Maggie Haberman, “Jeanine Pirro Calls for Paul Ryan to Step Down After Health Bill Failure,” The New York Times online, March 26, 2017