Paul Ryan agrees that the FBI didn’t really spy on the Trump campaign

The person two heartbeats away from the presidency has dumped cold water on the theory, pushed by the president, that the FBI spied on the Trump campaign.

On Wednesday, the first question House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) got in his weekly press conference was about President Trump’s repeated claim that the FBI inappropriately “spied” on his campaign in 2016. Ryan had just given a statement about economic growth, and as the first question started, turned to the side and said “I told you it wasn’t going to be an economic growth question.” CNN’s Manu Raju, the reporter, asked if Ryan agreed with Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), who last week dismissed Trump’s accusations of the FBI spying on his campaign with a plant and said the FBI did “exactly” what it was supposed to do.

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