{"id":1517798,"date":"2022-06-15T18:04:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T22:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1517798"},"modified":"2022-06-15T18:04:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T22:04:28","slug":"democrat-tim-ryan-faces-backlash-in-u-s-senate-race-over-past-comments-demonizing-u-s-justice-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-tim-ryan-faces-backlash-in-u-s-senate-race-over-past-comments-demonizing-u-s-justice-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Tim Ryan Faces Backlash In U.S. Senate Race Over Past Comments Demonizing U.S. Justice System"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrat-tim-ryan-faces-backlash-in-u-s-senate-race-over-past-comments-demonizing-u-s-justice-system%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1517798&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Ohio Democrat Tim Ryan, who is running for a U.S. Senate seat against Republican J.D. Vance, faced backlash online Wednesday over past remarks that he made about the U.S. Justice System.<\/p>\n<p>In the controversial remarks, Ryan calls the U.S. Justice System \u201cracist,\u201d claiming that it was \u201cthe new Jim Crow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe the current criminal justice system is racist,\u201d Ryan <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/henryrodgersdc\/status\/1537112726698348545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1537112726698348545%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fpolitics%2F2022%2F06%2F15%2Fohio-democrat-tim-ryan-attacked-cops-in-2019-criminal-justice-system-is-racist%2F\">said<\/a>. \u201cI believe in my heart it\u2019s the new Jim Crow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even more shocking about Ryan\u2019s remarks was the fact that they were made in the summer of 2019, a year before Black Lives Matter protests and riots rocked the nation following the death of George Floyd in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan\u2019s remarks generated a wide range of responses from former U.S. officials, political figures, and media personalities.<\/p>\n<p>Vance responded, \u201cHey @TimRyan care to comment?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYikes!!!\u201d Donald Trump Jr. responded. \u201cWe already knew that Two-Faced Tim Ryan was a flip-flopping fraud, but now he\u2019s been exposed as a leftwing anti-police radical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richard Grenell, the former Acting Director of National Intelligence, also weighed in, writing on Twitter: \u201cI hope every police officer in Ohio and their family members see what @TimRyan said in 2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe joined the mob\u2019s attacks on law enforcement!\u201d Grenell added. \u201cDisgraceful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ohio Senate candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimRyan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TimRyan<\/a> is out with a new ad today about his supposed support of law enforcement, but here&#8217;s what Ryan had to say back in 2019: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe the current criminal justice system is racist. I believe in my heart it\u2019s the new Jim Crow.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OHSen?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OHSen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x4hbg0PTPb\">pic.twitter.com\/x4hbg0PTPb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Henry Rodgers (@henryrodgersdc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/henryrodgersdc\/status\/1537112726698348545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other notable responses included:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Andrew Surabian<\/strong>, political strategist: \u201cIn addition to the below, just last year @TimRyan literally voted AGAINST a motion in the House to condemn calls to \u2018defund\u2019, \u2018disband\u2019, or \u2018abolish\u2019 the police\u2026He\u2019s a total fraud.\u201d<strong>Steve Cortes<\/strong>, media personality: \u201cWow. Tim Ryan tries to fool Ohioans into believing that he\u2019s some moderate. In reality, Ryan is a Washington establishment radical who spews anti-cop propaganda.\u201d<strong>Kaelan Dorr<\/strong>, Marketing and Global Engagement at GETTR: \u201cBig yikes! People won\u2019t be gaslit this easily by a flip-flopping fraud and far-left radical!\u201d<strong>Cliff Sims<\/strong>, former White House official: \u201cWhy vote for a Lib pretending to be @JDVance1 when you could just vote for @JDVance1 ? Weird campaign strategy, @TimRyan.\u201d<strong>Steven Cheung<\/strong>, former White House official: \u201cTim Ryan is a fraud and a phony. The voters of Ohio can\u2019t trust this charlatan who will do and say anything\u2014 including outright lying\u2014 to deceive the public.\u201d<strong>Ryan James Girdusky<\/strong>, political consultant: \u201cTim Ryan would handcuff every single police officer from doing their job. He supported the BLM riots as they destroyed people\u2019s lives. \u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio Democrat Tim Ryan, who is running for a U.S. Senate seat against Republican J.D. Vance, faced backlash online Wednesday over past remarks that he made about the U.S. Justice System. In the controversial remarks, Ryan calls the U.S. Justice System \u201cracist,\u201d claiming that it was \u201cthe new Jim Crow.\u201d \u201cI believe the current criminal &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1517844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1517844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}