President Trump Promotes Show Calling For Paul Ryan To Resign

WASHINGTON, DC — Judge Jeanine Pirro, a Fox News host and conservative firebrand, demanded Saturday night that Speaker of the House Paul Ryan step down from his seat of power after the unmitigated failure that was the Republican Party's attempt at repealing Obamacare on Friday.

There's little notable about a conservative pundit lambasting Ryan — he's been earning their ire in spades for some time now — but a tweet from President Trump made Pirro's rebuke much more significant.

Ahead of the broadcast, Trump encouraged viewers to tune in to Pirro's Saturday show:

The tweet was a small thing at the time. Trump frequently praises the network and tells his fans to watch Fox shows, which tend to have the most favorable coverage of his administration.

But then Pirro's show aired.

"Paul Ryan needs to step down as Speak of the House," Pirro declared at the top of the program.

"He failed to deliver the votes on his health care bill," she continued. "The one trumpeted to repeal and replace Obamacare. The one he had seven years to work on. The one he hid under lock and key in the basement of Congress. The one that had to be pulled to prevent the embarrassment of not having enough votes to pass."

From there, she blamed the speaker for delivering the president such a high-profile failure within his first 70 days in office. Trump, as a political neophyte, appeared to merit little of the blame in Pirro's eyes.

"No one expected a businessman to completely understand the nuances, the complicated ins and outs of Washington and its legislative process," she said. "How would he know which individuals upon whom he would be able to rely?"

In Patch's entirely unscientific Twitter poll, a plurality of respondents seemed to think Trump was responsible for the debacle:

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