found online by Raymond
From Iron Knee at Political Irony:
Paul Ryan is defending Donald Trump’s attempts to interfere with FBI investigations (commonly called “obstruction of justice”) by claiming that Trump just didn’t know:
Of course, there needs to be a degree of independence between [the Department of Justice], FBI and the White House, and a line of communication’s established. The president’s new at this. He’s new to government. So he probably wasn’t steeped in the long-running protocols that establish the relationships between DOJ, the FBI and White Houses. He’s just new to this.
Is Ryan claiming that ignorance of the law is a good excuse? Even for the president?
But I personally don’t think that this is even a believable excuse.