Trump, eyeing campaign reset, backs House Speaker RyanWASHINGTON: Donald Trump reversed course Friday and endorsed House Speaker Paul Ryan for re-election, as he sought to stop his presidential campaign’s bleeding after several self-inflicted wounds and relentless criticism from his own Republican Party. “In the intelligence business, we would say that Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation,” he added. “In our shared mission to make America great again, I support and endorse our Speaker of the House Paul Ryan,” he said, to cheers from the Green Bay crowd. Trump “may well pose a threat to our national security,” he wrote in a New York Times column. Morell said that as Russian President Vladimir Putin “played upon Mr. Trump’s vulnerabilities by complimenting him.

Source: Manila Times August 06, 2016 06:22 UTC