HE GETS IT: Newt Gingrich’s Secret Campaign for Donald Trump. [archive]
Last week in a closed-door meeting before more than 100 Republican chiefs of staff from the House and Senate . . ., Gingrich raved about the Republican frontrunner, calling him a “blue-collar bar room brawler.”
Gingrich touted Trump’s business successes in New York City, such as the skating rink in Central Park and the Ferry Point Golf Course, as evidence that the businessman would know how to run a political campaign—and, quite possibly, the country.
“[The] guy who knows how to run Miss Universe, The Apprentice, Trump Towers, construction, golf courses, casinos, ties… hotels,” Gingrich bragged, according to a chief in the room and confirmed by The Daily Beast. “A guy who runs that every morning—you think he can’t run a presidential campaign?
“You should study Trump and apply it to your member,” Gingrich said. “There’s a lot to learn here which you can take back to your member’s office.”
Gingrich then extolled Trump’s handling of the press—“by 9 o’clock in the morning, he’s got $750,000 worth of free media. Meanwhile all the other candidates are out there doing fundraisers”—and praised his understanding of the working class.
“He has been in the mud with construction workers his entire career,” Gingrich said.