During an interview on Univision TV, Newt Gingrich lashed back at the interviewer’s suggestion that it could be seen as “hypocritical” that he had persecuted President Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky period while conducting an extra-marital affair himself.
Gingrich replied that if people did think it was hypocritical it was “because they listen to your question and they don’t listen to the facts.”
“I told the truth in the deposition,” he said, drawing a distinction with the former President who – he said – “knew he was lying under oath” and that was what incurred Gingrich’s wrath (and also led to the loss of Clinton’s Arkansas law license.)
The interviewer continued to press that the affair aspect meant there was some hypocrisy. Gingrich paused. “There’s some place here where there’s a mental synapse missing. I have never lied under oath,” he concluded.
