Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, 80, tried to account for why former President Donald Trump’s four indictments with 91 felonies has been ignore by GOP voters who plan to vote for Trump in the 2024 GOP primaries. Gingrich said Trump is not only a GOP candidate but a leader of the Make American Great Again [MAGA] movement, something he started in 2015 when he announced June 15, 2015 for president at Trump Tower in Manhattan. Gingrich doesn’t take into account that before Trump ran for president, he was a household name from his legendary career as New York real estate developer. Trump lived big since writing with Tony Schwartz his Nov. 1, 1987 New York Time best-selling biography “The Art of the Deal.” Media types don’t appreciate Trump long history in the public eye before his NBC primetime reality show “The Apprentice.”
Gingrich thins all the polling show Trump received a bumb in the GOP 2024 election polls after each indictment shows, at the very least, that GOP voters don’t take the four indictments seriously. Whether Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s 34-count indictments or Special Counsel Jack Smith’s two indictments for Trump harboring classified docs or, more recently, for racketeering in the 2020 election in Georgia. GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos today that while Trump’s behavior was not perfect, he didn’t think it rose to the level of a criminal offense. Stephanopoulos took exception to Ramaswamy but refused to say whether or not Trump’s charges were politically motivated. Most GOP voters, still backing Trump, believe that Special Counsel Jack Smith continued to same Department of Justice and FBI shenanigans investigating and charging Trump.
Gingrich has a different take on why Trump continues to defy the polls, with his following continuing to give him their votes. Gingrich told the Washington Post that Trump isn’t only a GOP presidential candidate. “I keep trying to tell people, he is no a candidate. You can’t think of him as a cndidate. He is the leader of a mass movement,” Gingrich said. “Theu are competing with a leader in completely different world,” Gringrich said. Whether Newt’s right about Trump or not, Trump clearly has the backing of most GOP voters, making him the prohibitive front-runner to win the GOP nomination. Never has a GOP candidate won the nomination with so much in-party opposition to Trump’s candidacy. Back in 2016, when Trump first ran for president, there were plenty to Republicans AKA “Never Trumpers” who worked feverishly to stop him from becoming president in 2016.
Things really got out of hand in 2016 when an Obama administration conspiracy spearheaded by former Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch, former National Security Adviser Susan Rice, former FBI Director James Comey, former CIA Diector John Brennan and Deputy Atty. Gen. Sally Yates all conspired to start Operation Crossfire Hurricane, the counterintelligence investigation into Trump alleged ties with the Kremlin. For years during Trump’s presidency, Trump was tortured by the FBI and Special Counsel Robert Mueller for nearly two years, accusing him of Russian collusion. Mueller used former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s fake Steele dossier as probable cause to investigate Trump and his 2016 campaign. Mueller knew from Day One that the charges against Trump were all fake but went on for $40 million to investigate Trump for Russian collusion.
Gingrich thinks Trump leads a national MAGA movement but that’s not really why GOP voters have stuck with the former president. Many voters liked what Trump accomplished in the economy and foreign policy with his presidency. GOP voters look at where the country is today and realize how much Biden has reversed many of Trump’s accomplishments. Demcorats and the media spent so much time making up a false narrative against Trump, they believe their own party propaganda. U.S. was not at war wit the Russian Federation under Trump, nor pushing for war with China. President Joe Biden, 80, drove the economy into hyperinflation and started a proxy war with the Russian Federation. No one told Biden to go to war against the Kremlin. Biden tells the press he had no option but to join Ukraine’s War against the Russian Federation, wrecking decades of Russian diplomacy and arms control.
Gingrich thinks Trump leads the national MAGA movement seeking to get back into the White House to complete what he started back in 2016. Trump left the country better off than it was under former President Barack Obama. Trump worked to end costly foreign wars and to grow the U.S. economy. Biden proceeded in going to war against the Russian Federation, boycotting Russian oil and fueling the worst inflation of 40 years. So when Newt talks about Trump’s national movement he might be missing the fact that GOP voters want to stop Biden from all the damage he’s heaping on the U.S. economy and foreign policy. Trump’s GOP backers want life in the U.S. and foreign policy to return to normal, where all Americans can expect peace and prosperity. What can U.S. expect now that the country suffers from hyperinflation with the prospects of WW III and nuclear war.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
