Newt Gingrich has always been a fraud, a crook, and a liar
It's Sunday, the day powerful political figures in America converge on our television sets to lie outright in an attempt to add to their own power and to-hell-with-the-rest-of-you. Today's edition will serve as a reminder that Newton Leroy Gingrich is and always has been a terrible human being whose only reliable skill has been self-promotion, and a reminder that the Republican party had devolved into a den of conspiracy-minded crooks and charlatans decades before Donald J. Trump ever got his stubby vestigial thumbs on it. No, Newt Gingrich's party has always been a cesspool.
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, a stalwart supporter of President Trump, used a Sunday-morning appearance on “Fox and Friends” to spread the conspiracy theory that former Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich was killed last year to cover up the true story of how WikiLeaks obtained tens of thousands of hacked Democratic Party emails.
Ah, Fox and Friends, the lead paint of news. Of course. As is usual, there is zero evidence of this lunatic theory—every part of it other than the Mr. Rich's 2016 death seems to have been fabricated piece-by-piece. It is, like "pizzagate" before it, the product of crackpots on the internet simply making things up. But those of you that remember Newt Gingrich for his past career of endumbening the party to sufficient extent that supporters would, at long last, be willing to be entertained by the morning show equivalent of stuffing french fries in your nose and pretending to be a grandly tusked elephant—those of you that remember Newt Gingrich from that far back know that he has always been, well, this.
“Nobody’s investigating that, and what does that tell you about what’s going on? Because it turns out, it wasn’t the Russians. It was this young guy who, I suspect, was disgusted by the corruption of the Democratic National Committee. He’s been killed, and apparently nothing serious has been done to investigative his murder. So I’d like to see how [Robert S.] Mueller [III] is going to define what his assignment is.”
And here we have the reason for the conspiracy. Back in the before-times, the suicide of a White House staffer was for years used as evidence of "conspiracy" by the Democratic White House to something something something; only months ago, the notion that slave children were being kept in the basement of a restaurant that had no basement was evidence that somebody vaguely connected to a Democratic candidate was engaged in a "conspiracy" to take-your-pick; this new entry, opine the pushers, supposes that America should not trouble itself any longer with irritating questions about foreign election manipulation or which conservative figures may or may not have done what in response; it is all the Democrats. Always and forever, it is always the Democrats.