FOX News contributor and Former Speaker Newt Gingrich praised former President Donald Trump for his behavior on Tuesday at his arraignment and the measured speech he delivered last night to supporters at his Mar-a-Lago residence.
“I think the Democrats were desperate to have Trump behave in some kind of angry, hostile manner and to have him call out his supporters to re-create a sense of, you know, civil unrest or riot or whatever,” Gingrich said to host Laura Ingraham. “In that sense, I thought that Trump was amazingly disciplined. Came across exactly right. Indicated clearly that he was subordinate to the law, and that while he thought this whole indictment was an absurdity he nonetheless was not in any way going to encourage people to go outside the law.”
“I thought his speech last night was extraordinarily well-written and well-delivered,” Gingrich said. “And again, he was a tone of reasonableness, a tone of talking about the accurate history of the last couple of years, and just how bad the left has been. So I think probably the left tonight is a little frustrated because they it may begin to sink in, they may have just guaranteed he’ll be the Republican nomination. Even when Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush and others, come out and say this is wrong, you’re seeing sort of a consolidation of Trump versus a corrupt establishment. That could have huge implications both for the nomination and for the general election.”
“I think if you’re the Democrats and you’re looking at a failed Biden administration, you’re looking at extremists in the House and Senate, you’re looking at policies you can’t defend back home, you need something to take people’s attention away from reality,” he said.
“The more calm and the more reasonable that Trump is the harder the Democrat’s problem is,” Gingrich said. “That’s why I thought yesterday was a very significant moment. He didn’t rant and rave. He didn’t try to arouse his supporters. He very calmly went into court. He very calmly gave a talk that was disciplined and orderly. If he strips away the weaknesses they want to attack, the Democrats have nothing left to campaign on.”
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