Later, Rudy said he'd participated in actual interventions and no way did Trump "need any intervention."
Rudy is quite a good friend and he didn't look very happy after Newt made those kind of comments.
I don't know if Newt made those comments elsewhere, but I really don't think Trump cared one bit to have one on his "team" out claiming he needed any kind of intervention.
His advocates here are one or more of: naif, senile, compensated.