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Gingrich: The Way The Left Attacks Trump Is “Almost Verbatim” How Pro-Slavery Papers Attacked Lincoln

The Hill reports: Former Speaker Newt Gingrich on Wednesday compared liberals who are critical of President Trump to “slave newspapers” attacking Abraham Lincoln. Speaking on Fox News’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Gingrich described a Civil War history professor he knows who told him Lincoln’s inaugural address was criticized in similar ways to the criticism Trump faces. “He has made the case …

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Newt Gingrich: Trump’s “Isolated” Presidency Is At Risk

The Hill reports: Former Speaker Newt Gingrich said President Trump needs to make “serious changes” if he wants to have a stable presidency. The Trump ally said in a Fox News interview with Bill Hemmer Friday that Trump has taken a “good first step” in bringing in John Kelly as chief of staff, but that other changes are necessary. “You …

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Newt Gingrich Rips Into Mooch: He’s Full Of Himself

The Washington Examiner reports: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci is “full of himself” and is acting “more pugnacious than effective.” “I think Scaramucci is full of himself,” Gingrich said Thursday in a radio interview with Laura Ingraham. “I think he got down here from New York and he is all excited. Frankly, he …

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Newt Gingrich Has The Sadz: If The GOP Doesn’t Get Moving, We’ll Be Back To Speaker Nancy Pelosi [VIDEO]

“Do we represent prosperity, economic growth, higher take home pay, more jobs or not? I personally believe they ought to do as much as they can on health care right now, but they shouldn’t spend the whole rest of this year on one issue. They have also got to pass, by Thanksgiving, and sign into law by Thanksgiving, a very …

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Gingrich Suggests Banning CNN From The White House

The New York Times reports: The opportunity to take over behind the White House briefing room lectern would be the apex of a political operative’s career in any other presidency, a path to riches, fame and power. But after weeks of fitful efforts to sell a job that for decades people have plotted to get, no one has jumped at …

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Gingrich: Presidents Are Immune From Obstruction Charges (Voted To Impeach Clinton For Obstruction)

Market Watch reports: With President Donald Trump blasting reports that he is under investigation for possible obstruction of justice, Trump ally and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said any charge wouldn’t stick for one simple reason. “Technically, the president of the United States cannot obstruct justice,” Gingrich said Friday during an event at the National Press Club. “The president of …

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Newt Gingrich Calls For Shutting Down Special Counsel: GOP Is Delusional If They Think He’ll Be Fair [VIDEO]

The Hill reports: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) questioned early Monday special counsel Robert Mueller’s ability to remain fair and impartial in his investigation into Russia’s involvement in the 2016 presidential election. Gingrich, an informal adviser to the president, also voiced his concerns about Mueller on Sunday. He accused former FBI Director James Comey on Sunday of manipulating the …

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Newt Gingrich Begs Trump To End Press Briefings: Why Hang Out With People Who Despise You? [VIDEO]

And of course, Hannity agrees. The Hill reports: Former Speaker Newt Gingrich is urging President Trump to follow through on his threat to cancel daily White House press briefings, accusing news media of being “dishonest opponents” of the president. “What they ought to do is get out of all this junk, they ought to focus on the big goals, they …

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Gingrich: Schumer Cries Fake Tears For Refugees But He Doesn’t Cry For Murdered Americans [VIDEO]

The Hill reports: Former Speaker Newt Gingrich on Tuesday slammed Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) for his emotional reaction at a press conference following President Trump’s executive order on immigration. “It really bothered me that Chuck Schumer could bring up a few tears for people that are not being killed, not being shot, not being imprisoned, they are simply …

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Gingrich: Kick Those Left-Wing Propagandists Out Of The Briefing Room And Replace Them With Citizens

“I’d allow one-fourth or one half of the people at the press conference to be citizens. Why is there this presumption that somebody who calls themselves the press even though they’re total left-wing propagandists, they’re somehow privileged creatures? The question is, should people be allowed to ask questions of the White House? Why does that have to be only the …

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Newt Gingrich: Donald Trump No Longer Talks About “Draining The Swamp” Because It Sounds Undignified

Politico reports: President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on a promised to “drain the swamp” in Washington of corruption, but now that he’s preparing to move into the White House, Newt Gingrich said the Manhattan billionaire is looking to distance himself from that message. “I’m told he now just disclaims that. He now says it was cute, but he doesn’t want to …

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Newt Gingrich: “Trumpism” Requires Calling Anti-Trump Journalists The “Propaganda Media” [VIDEO]

Via Right Wing Watch: Today at the Heritage Foundation, Newt Gingrich delivered a speech on “Trumpism” in which he lavished praise on President-elect Donald Trump and promoted his new ebook on Trump’s campaign while skewering the pontificating elites of the establishment, of which the former speaker of the House is certainly not a member. “Donald Trump is the grizzly bear …

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Newt Gingrich: Trump Supporters Will Be “Enormously Disappointed” If Romney Gets Any Kind Of Job [VIDEO]

The Hill reports: Donald Trump’s supporters would be “enormously disappointed” if the president-elect nominates Mitt Romney to be secretary of State, Newt Gingrich said Sunday. Romney is reportedly at the top of the list to be the nation’s top diplomat in the new administration, but he was highly critical of Trump’s campaign, once calling him a “fraud” and a “con …

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WND: Trump Must Revive The House Un-American Activities Committee And Destroy The ACLU & SPLC

From World Net Daily: In his blockbuster new book, “Scorched Earth: Restoring The Country After Obama,” Savage calls for nothing less than the restoration of the House Un-American Activities Committee. “I know what’s going to happen: the left will go insane,” he writes. ‘They’ll say, ‘You’re violating our civil rights.’ They’ll say, ‘You do not have probable cause to bring …

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Gingrich: Breitbart CEO Steve Bannon Can’t Be Blamed For His Site’s Racism And Anti-Semitism [VIDEO]

Via Politico: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said efforts to pin anti-Semitic and sexist headlines from Breitbart news to Steve Bannon, the site’s former executive and incoming White House chief strategist, are “baloney.” In fact, Gingrich said during a Monday morning interview on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends,” the controversy stirred up by Bannon’s appointment to such a high-level White …

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Trump’s Fantasy Cabinet: Secretary Of State Gingrich, Attorney General Giuliani, Defense Secretary Flynn

NBC News reports: Donald Trump’s cabinet-in-waiting is taking shape in the final days of the race, as aides eye a number of Trump loyalists for major posts should he win on Tuesday. Among the names being considered, according to conversations with three campaign advisers who requested anonymity to speak freely: Rudy Giuliani for attorney general, Newt Gingrich for secretary of …

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Paula Jones: Megyn Kelly Is A “Nasty Heifer”

The Hill reports: Two of the women accusing former President Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct ripped into Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly after an explosive interview in which Kelly faced off with Newt Gingrich. Gingrich, a former House Speaker and Donald Trump surrogate, accused Kelly of being “fascinated with sex” after she asked about the women who have accused the …

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Newt Gingrich Melts Down At Fox’s Megyn Kelly In Wild Interview: You Are Fascinated With Sex! [VIDEO]

Via BBC reports: Newt Gingrich has accused TV anchor Megyn Kelly of being “fascinated” with sex and not caring about public policy in a bizarre live interview. The Republican claimed she showed “bias” for mentioning the groping allegations against Donald Trump. Ms Kelly retorted she was not fascinated by sex but by who was going to be in the White …

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Newt Gingrich: The American People Chose Trump But 20 TV Executives Are Rigging The Election [VIDEO]

ABC News reports: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich stood by Republican nominee Donald Trump’s claim that the election is being “rigged,” blaming what he calls “the unending one-sided assault of the news media” on the GOP candidate. “Without the unending one-sided assault of the news media, Trump would be beating Hillary Clinton by 15 points,” Gingrich told ABC News’ Martha …

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Newt Gingrich: Pastors Have A Duty From Christ To Run For Office And Fight Totalitarian Secularists [VIDEO]

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: The American Renewal Project, an effort organized by Christian nationalist and Religious Right political operative David Lane to encourage pastors to run for office and to mobilize their congregations to get involved in politics, posted a video yesterday featuring Newt Gingrich telling pastors that they have a duty to fight back against “those …

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