Gingrich: Trump’s False Illegal Voting Claim Was Biggest Mistake As PEOTUS

Former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Newt Gingrich (Republican of Georgia) arrives for a meeting with US President-elect Donald Trump, in the Trump Tower, November 21, 2016, in New York, New Y... Former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Newt Gingrich (Republican of Georgia) arrives for a meeting with US President-elect Donald Trump, in the Trump Tower, November 21, 2016, in New York, New York. Credit: Aude Guerrucci / Pool via CNP - NO WIRE SERVICE - Photo by: Aude Guerrucci/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images MORE LESS
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Newt Gingrich said Tuesday that President-elect Donald Trump’s biggest mistake since the election was his claiming without any evidence that millions of votes were illegally cast on Election Day.

“The president of the United States can’t randomly tweet without having somebody check it out,” Gingrich, a vice chair on Trump’s transition team, told USA Today’s Susan Page during an appearance on the Capital Download video series. “I mean it just— It makes you wonder about whatever else he’s doing. It undermines much more than a single tweet.”

On Sunday, Trump falsely claimed that “millions” of people voted illegally, preventing him from winning the popular vote. A widely-shared article on the conspiracy website InfoWars, whose creator, Alex Jones, Trump has praised in the past, cited a non-existent report to make an identical bogus claim.

Gingrich also recounted to Page that Trump told him last week, apparently without a hint of irony: “This is really a bigger job than I thought.”

Gingrich said he saw that as a “good” reaction from Trump, because he said as president “you have war and peace, you have enormous powers … and it all comes down to the Oval Office and it all comes down to you.”

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  1. Avatar for sooner sooner says:

    Newt Gingrich said Tuesday that President-elect Donald Trump’s biggest mistake TO DATE since the election was his claiming without any evidence that millions of votes were illegally cast on Election Day.

    FIFY

    But it’s still early in his Reich.

  2. Avatar for mantan mantan says:

    Reruns already?

  3. Avatar for mymy mymy says:

    It wasn’t a mistake. Trump really believes that ANYONE who didn’t vote for him is “illegal” and he will now proceed to make us so.

  4. Gingrich also recounted to Page that Trump told him last week, apparently without a hint of irony: “This is really a bigger job than I thought.”


    Welcome back to regular reality Newt.

    Take a load off.

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