Paul Ryan ‘sickened’ by Donald Trump’s lewd comments in video: Says Trump can't campaign with Him.

Speaker Paul D. Ryan said he is “sickened” by lewd comments Donald Trump made about women in a 2005 video disclosed Friday and that the Republican presidential candidate will no longer appear with him at a campaign event in Wisconsin Saturday.

Ryan said in statement late Friday that Trump “is no longer attending” the event — a festival in Ryan’s Wisconsin congressional district. He did not say whether Trump had volunteered to skip the event or whether Ryan had asked Trump not to come.

But he decried Trump’s newly revealed comments in stark terms.

“I am sickened by what I heard today,” Ryan said. “Women are to be championed and revered, not objectified. I hope Mr. Trump treats this situation with the seriousness it deserves and works to demonstrate to the country that he has greater respect for women than this clip suggests.”



In a short statement issued moments after Ryan’s, Trump said his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, “will be representing me” at the Wisconsin event while he remained in New York to prepare for Sunday’s town hall debate

What remains to be seen, however, is whether the new revelations, first disclosed by The Washington Post, will trigger a broader abandonment of Trump by GOP officeholders.