Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump, on Sunday said he had “no idea” what Trump was trying to do with a tweet that appeared to confirm he is personally under federal investigation.
“Trump has a compulsion to counterattack and is very pugnacious. I don’t think it serves him well. I don’t think that tweet helped him,” Gingrich said on ABC’s “This Week.”
He said Trump was “infuriated” by “this Russia baloney,” apparently referring to the ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Asked whether Trump was confirming the existence of an investigation into himself using the tweet, Gingrich replied: “I have no idea what he thought he was doing.”
The Washington Post reported last week that Robert Mueller, special counsel overseeing the federal probe into Russian meddling, took over an investigation into the possibility that Trump obstructed justice. Trump appeared to confirm that he was under investigation in a tweet posted Friday.
Jay Sekulow, an attorney on Trump’s legal team, pushed back on that interpretation on Sunday.
“The response from the President, using social media, was about that story,” he said. “But let me be very clear here, as it has been since the beginning, the President is not and has not been under investigation for obstruction.”
“And only I can fix it,” through the agency of stooge-agent-surrogates who will tell all of you that I never said what I said.
“I mean, I was rather straightfoward with my dying wife when I visited her in the hospital and told her I wanted a divorce to marry my mistress,” the disgraced former House Speaker later added.
Context is everything.
That was very clear. Since you were so clear that he’s not under investigation for obstruction that what is he under investigation for?
We’ll just add this to the ever growing list of things about which Gingrich has no idea.