Revealed: Newt Gingrich’s Secret Campaign for Donald Trump
In public, Newt Gingrich wont say hes 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 advisermost importantly, Gingrich is playing the role of trying to get Washingtons Republican political class to come to terms with the billionaires candidacyall while swooning over the mans 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 Trumps 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 campaignand, quite possibly, the country.
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