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Article snippet: MORE (R-Utah), ripped him over his inability to secure funding for a border wall and blamed the former Speaker for losing the Republican majority in the House last year. "Paul Ryan, the failed V.P. candidate & former Speaker of the House, whose record of achievement was atrocious (except during my first two years as President), ultimately became a long running lame duck failure, leaving his Party in the lurch both as a fundraiser & leader," Trump tweeted. "He quit Congress because he didn’t know how to Win," Trump continued. "They gave me standing O’s in the Great State of Wisconsin, & booed him off the stage. He promised me the Wall, & failed (happening anyway! "He had the Majority & blew it away with his poor leadership and bad timing. Never knew how to go after the Dems like they go after us. Couldn’t get him out of Congress fast enough!" The late night rant came hours after excerpts from "American Carnage," a new book by Politico's Tim Alberta, reported by The Washington Post said that Ryan viewed his retirement from Congress last year as an "escape hatch." The former Speaker offers withering critiques of the president over his rhetoric and governing style, adding that he feels the country has been "numbed" to Trump's behavior. “Those of us around him really helped to stop him from making bad decisions. All the time,” Ryan told Alberta. “We helped him make much better decisions, which were contrary to kind of what his knee-jerk reaction wa... Link to the full article to read more