Newt Gingrich is not a "consultant". I am a consultant. Perhaps you are too. Just because he hangs a shingle "Newt Gingrich Associates" means nothing. Freddie Mac will not pay you or I $1.6 million to give our "historical opinion" on their operations - even if we are real estate experts. Newt Gingrich is not an expert in real estate, loans or derivates. But he WAS the Speaker of the House. You can nitpick all you want, but just as with Newt's absurd claims that his posh Mediterranean vacation with Callista and his entire family was some kind of economic fact-finding mission to Greece, his claims regarding Freddie defy all common sense. Surely you have some?
Has nothing to do with nit picking. A lobbiest talks with members congress and tries to influence their vote a consultant does not. Lobbiest have to register with the federal government consultants don’t. There is zero evidence Newt Gingrich tried to influence congress. Sorry facts trump so called common sense. You don’t like Gingrich,fine, but you don’t get to make up stuff.