Newt Gingrich said Tuesday that comedian Kathy Griffin’s controversial photo shoot and Shakespeare in the Park’s production of “Julius Caesar” had “set the tone” for what he considers a biased special counsel team currently investigating potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Gingrich, a staunch Trump ally, appeared on “Good Morning America” with George Stephanopoulos and cited the photo shoot and play as he criticized the special counsel team and defended his reversed position on Robert Mueller’s appointment.
“I’m operating in a world where somebody can hold up the bleeding head of the President and someone can assassinate the President in a play and people go ‘Oh, well that’s just politics,’” Gingrich told Stephanopoulos.
“But neither one of those is Robert Mueller,” the anchor pointed out.
“No, but they set the tone,” Gingrich responded.
The former House speaker had previously praised Mueller as a “superb choice” in May when news broke of his appointment but backtracked on Tuesday, tweeting “Republicans are delusional if they think the special counsel is going to be fair.”
Republicans are delusional if they think the special counsel is going to be fair. Look who he is hiring.check fec reports. Time to rethink.
— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) June 12, 2017
Watch Gingrich’s exchange with Stephanopoulos below:
Criticizing special counsel team, @newtgingrich says Kathy Griffin, Shakespeare in the Park "set the tone" surrounding Trump-Russia probe. pic.twitter.com/yZfJ9lJU6V
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) June 13, 2017
Whenever I see Gringrich, my first reaction is always “Why isn’t this dweeb in jail?”
Why isn’t Newt in the Vatican now ? Didn’t Calista get the job ?
Yeah, Newt. we all remember how you were equally offended and worried about “the tone” when people were talking about “Second Amendment solutions” for President Obama, or circulating photos of him dressed as an African witch doctor, and calling his wife “an ape in heels” who was really a man and not the mother of their children.
Teatroll Rosetta Stone: “Look at me! LOOK AT ME!!!”
Yawn. What he said doesn’t even make sense in the slightest.
The Georgia Gasbag is right.
Kathy Griffin bears 0.00000097% Responsibility
Shakespeare Play? 0.0000000000098% Responsibility
Donnie? 150% Responsibility