Salon.com: The silence of the lambs: Why sheepish GOP leaders have been conspicuously quiet since Donald Trump’s debate debacle

September 29th, 2016 [Mitch McConnell; Paul Ryan] [The silence of the lambs: Why sheepish GOP leaders have been conspicuously quiet since Donald Trump’s debate debacle] Gary Legum Before Monday's debate, top Republicans were starting to vocally support Donald Trump, but since then? Crickets [Donald Trump] [Report: Donald Trump broke Cuba embargo, knowingly conducted illegal business in communist country] Brendan Gauthier The GOP nominee skirted international trade laws to establish a preemptive "foothold" on the island, says Newsweek [Gary Johnson] [Gary Johnson can’t name a single foreign leader. 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