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no_hypocrisy

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Wed Mar 23, 2016, 08:27 PM Mar 2016

Revealed: Newt Gingrich’s Secret Campaign for Donald Trump

In public, Newt Gingrich won’t say he’s endorsing Donald Trump. Behind the scenes, however, the former speaker is leading a coy campaign to back Donald Trump bid for the Republican nomination.

For Trump, Gingrich has become an unpaid adviser—most importantly, Gingrich is playing the role of trying to get Washington’s Republican political class to come to terms with the billionaire’s candidacy—all while swooning over the man’s dubious business successes.

For some time now Gingrich has been stumping for Trump behind the scenes, on Capitol Hill and elsewhere. Last week in a closed-door meeting before more than 100 Republican chiefs of staff from the House and Senate in Baltimore, Gingrich raved about the Republican frontrunner, calling him a “blue-collar bar room brawler.”

Gingrich touted Trump’s business successes in New York City, such as the skating rink in Central Park and the Ferry Point Golf Course, as evidence that the businessman would know how to run a political campaign—and, quite possibly, the country.

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http:/http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/23/revealed-newt-gingrich-s-secret-trump-campaign.html

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Revealed: Newt Gingrich’s Secret Campaign for Donald Trump (Original Post) no_hypocrisy Mar 2016 OP
Sneaky Repubes, up to their tricks in the dark. AxionExcel Mar 2016 #1
Newt noretreatnosurrender Mar 2016 #2

AxionExcel

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1. Sneaky Repubes, up to their tricks in the dark.
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 08:33 PM
Mar 2016

Repubes do all kinds of sneaky crap in the dark. Secrecy is their freaking modus operandi. That speaks volumes.

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