Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said in an appearance on Fox News Channel that the F.B.I.’s raid of the offices of Trump lawyer Michael Cohen was akin to the Gestapo, the Nazi regime’s secret police. “We’re supposed to have the rule of law, it ain’t the rule of law when they kick in your door…
As president, Barack Obama had a catch-phrase that he often invoked at moments when America seemed to have shamed herself: “That’s not who we are.” He said it after the Sandy Hook massacre. He said it to defend academic freedom and to oppose Islam-bashing and anti-immigrant agitation. His critics on the right hated it. They…
Newt Gingrich parroted far right wing conspiracy theories about the unsolved murder of Democratic staffer Seth Rich — as allies of President Trump sought to use the puzzling case to shift attention from the burgeoning investigation of potential ties to Russia. Without offering any evidence, the GOP mouthpiece told Fox News that Rich was “assassinated”…
Donald Trump’s long and tangled history with the opposite sex was a main theme of the election campaign, as reporters dug into accusations of sexual misconduct, details of past liaisons and the candidate’s messy series of three marriages. As Trump, Inc. veers toward the White House — with the expected accidents and skids — it’s…
The ‘alt-right’ will be firmly ensconced in the West Wing next January, as former head of Breitbart News Steve Bannon takes up the role of chief strategist for President-elect Donald Trump. But don’t call him an anti-Semite, Newt Gingrich said. After all, he’s worked on Wall Street and in Hollywood. “He was a managing partner…
The problem, Americans had heard for years, was that we, unlike our more sophisticated counterparts across the Atlantic, expected puritanical saintliness from our politicians. Why couldn’t we just (tosses neck-scarf) look the other way, and focus on our leaders’ ability to do the job? And then, 2016 happened. All of a sudden, we have a…
Newt Gingrich has raised questions about the murder of Democratic staffer Seth Rich, fanning the flames of conspiracy theories that link the unsolved slaying to the hacking scandal that has roiled the presidential campaign. In an appearance on The Mike Gallagher Show last week, the former Republican presidential candidate Gingrich appeared to give credence to…
White supremacist leader David Duke says he would be the “better” vice presidential candidate for Donald Trump, but the former Ku Klux Klan leader admits he is not expecting to get tapped for the Donald’s ticket. Duke blasted Newt Gingrich, saying he would be “a better pick” than the former Republican House speaker whom Donald…
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