House Speaker Paul Ryan Blinks: I’ll Step Down As Republican Convention Chairman If Trump Asks Me To

From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

House Speaker Paul Ryan said Monday that if Donald Trump wants him to step down as a co-chairman of the GOP convention, he will respect his wishes. “He’s the nominee. I’ll do whatever he wants with respect to the convention,” Ryan said when asked about that scenario in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Ryan said he hopes he and Trump can begin to get to know each other when they meet later this week. “I just want to get to know the guy … we just don’t know each other,” said Ryan, who delivered a political bombshell last Thursday when he said he wasn’t ready yet to support his party’s presumptive nominee.

Ryan also said a third-party or independent bid by conservatives in 2016 “would be a disaster for our party. I have communicated that to plenty of people.” The speaker said that in taking his stance on Trump his goal is to work toward real unity, and not “fake” unity.