Newt Gingrich might have inadvertently told the truth about why Republican congressional moderates might now support the impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden when they didn’t before.
The former House speaker-turned-Fox News contributor joined Fox & Friends on Monday to talk about the Congressional GOP’s latest push to get the Biden inquiry off the ground. Asked for his reaction to Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) confidence in securing the necessary votes, Gingrich accused Democrats of “defending Joe Biden’s right to be a crook.”
That’s when Gingrich followed up with this:
If you’re a Republican, do you really want to guarantee a primary opponent by voting against looking into [Biden]? This doesn’t impeach him. This simply gives Congress additional power to force the White House to reveal document and force people to come testify.
Extrapolating from Gingrich’s words to put them into greater context, he seemed to be saying that if House Republicans don’t back the inquiry, then their careers will end when their unforgiving constituents vote them out in their next primary election. While there remains a lack of direct evidence pointing to Biden’s criminal wrongdoing, Gingrich continued to pronounce the Biden family “corrupt” over what the GOP alleges is a foreign influence peddling scheme.
Watch above via Fox News.