Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said he believes the guilty verdict handed down to former President Trump this week only makes him stronger and the conviction could end up backfiring on the left.
Gingrich joined John Catsimatidis on WABC 770 AM’s “Cats Roundtable,” where they discussed the jury’s decision to convict Trump on all 34 criminal counts against him for falsifying business records related to a secret payment to hide an alleged affair with porn actor Stormy Daniels. of the 2016 elections.
Gingrich praised the former president for the way he has conducted himself since the verdict.
“Trump has handled all of this with such dignity and resilience, that I think he’s really grown in stature and people realize… this guy is taking a hell of a beating, just for the right to try to save the country,” he said.
Gingrich argued “in a funny way” that the hush money trial and conviction could “backfire on the left and leave them, I think, weaker than they were if they never [had] I followed this path. And that’s a big factor.”
Gingrich called the verdict a “false conviction” covered by “fake news.”
“Well, I think we are at a real crisis point. And that we just saw the most false case ever brought against the presidential candidate,” Gingrich said. “We see that Trump had a false conviction covered up, of course, by fake news.”
The former president blamed Biden’s campaign for the guilty verdict on Trump, who he said is trying to remove Trump from the election. Biden’s campaign had no involvement in the case. Trump was convicted by 12 New York jurors.
The former president criticized the conviction, promising to appeal. In comments made after the ruling was handed down, Trump said the “real verdict” would be on Election Day.
Trump’s campaign said it has raised more than $50 million in donations since Thursday.
Gingrich argued that the “shocking result” of the verdict was that he angered some Republicans and independents and wanted to get involved financially.
“I think people just looked up and said ‘this is now so sick that I need to get involved,’” Gingrich said.
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