I hope former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-GA) is sweating, because this statement is a trifle ridiculous:
Nonetheless, many in Trump’s world say an impeachment fight will benefit the president politically. Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, a Trump ally, predicted impeachment proceedings would backfire on House Democrats just as they did on House Republicans when he led the impeachment of President Bill Clinton and was accused of overreach.
“The Democrats have been sucked into a cul-de-sac where they will, from Trump’s perspective, run around chanting, ‘Impeach!’ ” Gingrich said. “I think that the president is very comfortable. It irritates [him], but he’s very comfortable strategically with what’s evolving.” [WaPo]
With all due respect to the Republicans of Gingrich’s era, they basically prosecuted a man for blow job. It may have been accompanied by some abuse of power, but the abuse itself was trivial.
And the American public saw that.
There is nothing trivial in the allegations of abuse of power by President Trump. It is the task of the Democrats, and whichever Republicans join them, to communicate the gravity of these abuses, and the clarity with which they can be seen.
Gingrich, the quitter (he resigned from the House as Speaker after his Party did relatively poorly in the midterms of 1998, and shortly thereafter gave up his seat), continues to think this is a game with little consequence for the nation. But he’s wrong, and I hope the rest of the nation, and Congress, figures that out.
