Posted on 09/01/2022 6:31:59 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol is asking former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) to voluntarily sit with its investigators, claiming he advised the Trump team in the days after the former president’s loss in the 2020 election.
“Information obtained by the Select Committee suggests that you provided detailed directives about the television advertisements that perpetuated false claims about fraud in the 2020 election, that you sought ways to expand the reach of this messaging, and that you were likely in direct conversations with President Trump about these efforts,” the committee wrote in its letter to Gingrich.
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I would.
This is getting more and more like the McCarthy hearings of the 50’s. Tell them to stuff it Newt. Plead the Fifth and don’t cooperate.
They’ve been after Gingrich for decades, ever since the Contract With America.
They forget about him for awhile, then It’s as if the Eye of Sauron turns again and fixes upon him and the baying hounds turn in pursuit.
If Gingrich does appear before the witch hunt committee, they may be sorry they asked him.
They got nothing.
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