Newt Gingrich: Trump's Putin press conference 'most serious mistake of his presidency'

Washington Examiner ^ | July 16, 2018 | Naomi Lim

[FewsOrange]

Newt Gingrich on Monday offered rare, scalding criticism of President Trump, demanding that the president explain the comments he made during his controversial press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the conclusion of their talks in Helsinki.

"President Trump must clarify his statements in Helsinki on our intelligence system and Putin," the former House speaker wrote on Twitter. "It is the most serious mistake of his presidency and must be corrected—-immediately."

Trump received widespread scorn on Monday after he said at the media availability that he has yet to see any compelling reason why the Kremlin would have interfered in the 2016 election.

His comments follow special counsel Robert Mueller's indictment in federal court on Friday, which alleged 12 Russian military officials hacked Democratic email servers during the campaign.

Gingrich has been a vocal supporter of Trump, but he has on occasion provided constructive critiques of his performance.

Gingrich chastised Trump in April, claiming his administration had botched the release of Deputy Attorney Rod Rosenstein's memo outlining problems with fired FBI Director James Comey.

[a little elbow grease]

"Newt is right. This whole trip has been a PR disaster, which will be reflected in the polls for all the races this fall."

_____________________________

..... get some mineral spirits and clean up.

[a little elbow grease]

"Speak for yourself. I think this whole trip has been an outrageous success for our President."

_________________________

Right on.

[a little elbow grease]

LOL!

[trebb]

I’d wager that if Newt knew what was said at the meeting, he might change his tune....seems obvious Putin has a LOT of dirt on the Dems and the Intel Agencies and they are terrified of it coming out.

[i_robot73]

>
No wonder Trump did he would be slammed for it..if he had come out and called Putin a bastard to his face the media would say “This is all for show, he doesnt mean it” what does the Democrat media want, they want us to go to war with Russia..not because Russia did something they deserves that, but because the commie media will NEVER get over the fact that their beloved Hillary LOST
>

Correct. There is NOTHING DT could do and they would go, “Good job.”.

Don’t go “Look how weak”. Talk tough “He’s starting WWIII”

I do wish he’d only have said, “When you get around to asking ALL the others that interfered in the ‘16 election, we’ll come back to Russia and see if their answer is still the same or not”

And, to REALLY make their heads ‘plode, just remind ‘em how much they ‘trusted’ the CIA/etc. for the Bush war intelligence, Comey pre’16 election (both times), the CIA’s Vault 7 ‘tools’ and *THEN* ask how much they should be taken @ face value

[Enlightened1]

No you are wrong. The media are going to attack President a Trump no matter what. You don’t cave to them ever.

We have tried your weak strategy for the last 30 years and it led to a colloquial disaster. Just dumb!!!

Don’t let the media lead you around by the nose. These cockroaches are the enemy of our Free Republic.

[Enlightened1]

Oh do you mean the same fake polls that said Hillary was going to win?

Please quit gullibly believing the liars in the a fake stream news.