Newt Gingrich blames Nancy Pelosi for the Capitol riot, saying she should have secured the building

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

before the Trump supporters stormed it

Newt Gingrich blamed Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi for the Capitol riot, saying it was her responsibility to ensure the Capitol was secure on January 6, 2021.

Gingrich made an appearance on "The Ingraham Angle" on the one-year anniversary of the insurrection, during which host Laura Ingraham asked if he, a former Speaker of the House, thought it was Pelosi's responsibility to secure the Capitol before the riot.

"I think she is the person who is most responsible for what happened," Gingrich told Ingraham. "It was her job to ensure there was adequate police."

"A lot of this is a dance by the Democrats who don't want us to look very closely at what actually happened," he added.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/newt-gingrich-blames-nancy-pelosi-for-the-capitol-riot-saying-she-should-have-secured-the-building-before-the-trump-supporters-stormed-it/ar-AASxpCA

Advice from a member of the party of personal responsibility. STFU Gingrich.

[Freddie]

1. So it was her fault?

And not the people who planned the event or the people who smeared shit on the walls? Republican “logic” in a nutshell.

[ProfessorGAC]

8. Or The Senate Majority Leader?

Who at that time was McConnell.
Why wouldn’t the head of the majority party in senate not have equal responsibility?

[MagickMuffin]

3. Hey Newt are you part of the pedophile ring of your party?

We do know you like to cheat on your wives. Perhaps you like to party with the girls.

[Hoyt]

4. Gingrich helped bring us trump. However, the Capitol should have been secured.

Of course, if troops or properly equipped police had stopped the storming of the Capitol, we wouldn’t have hours of video displaying how deplorable these people are.

[Irish_Dem]

5. Criminals blame their victims. The victim should have prevented the crime.

[Eliot Rosewater]

6. This despicable excuse for a human is the one who started it ALL.

Between him and Limpdick, the GOP ceased being a political party that negotiates with the Democrats and turned into a fascist dictatorship. And he said so, many times.

His legacy will be a big one, and all of it very bad. We can tie him to trump, he paved the way for the dumbest and most corrupt human on EARTH to be elected prez.

[C_U_L8R]

7. So Trump told her he was going to try to overthrow the government?

Is that what you're saying, Newt?

[no_hypocrisy]

9. Hey Newt! It's kind of hard to "secure the Capitol when

some members of the House gave vulnerable locations where it could be breached.

[Emile]

10. Is that what they call TWISTED LOGIC?

[kwolf68]

11. I just don't get these people

ANTIA, Pelosi, who next? Who we know it ISN'T is the gang of idiots who were trying to overthrow our Democracy. Newt is another Republican hack. Who is left in that party worth a shit? Kinzinger, Cheney, some Lincoln Project types, otherwise, it's a swine fest.

[Bev54]

13. This argument is getting very old, they have been given the facts

over and over again, she has no control over the capitol police. It is the usual, if you tell a lie enough people will believe it.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/07/27/fact-check-nancy-pelosi-isnt-in-charge-capitol-police/8082088002/

[NewHendoLib]

14. For the zillionth time in my lifetime, fuck you, newt, you asshole

[oasis]

28. Ditto that.

[Walleye]

15. How many times have we performed the ceremonial congressional routine without any insurrection?

Counting the electoral votes has never been a national security risk before. They love to blame the victim especially when it’s a woman. Listen to Liz Cheney she said something like, are you going to blame the businessmen whose businesses were burned down in the summer riots for not protecting their premises?

[GoCubsGo]

16. Like blaming the rape victim for not seeing the ruffie you slipped into her drink

when she wasn't watching.

The problem with this is that this sleazy, fucking liar was once the Speaker of the House, himself. So, he'll get away with this bullshit. The sheep watching this show will take is word for it, rather than looking up the facts--which are not anywhere close to what Nitwit Newt claims.

[MineralMan]

17. Who cares what that has-been salamander says?

[Ocelot II]

18. Censured former Congressman and serial adulterer says what?

[bottomofthehill]

19. Quick tutorial

Capitol Police Board on 1/6/21, it is made up of 3 members, plus the ex-officio Chief of Police

House Sergeant at Arms
Paul Irving. First appointed by
Speaker John Boehner, held over by Speaker Pelosi

Senate Sergeant at Arms
Michael Stenger. Appointed by Leader Mitch McConnell

Architect of the Capitol
Brett Blanton, Appointed by Donald Trump, the AOC is a Presidential Appointee who requires Senate confirmation. LeaderMcConnell’s Senate.

USCP Chief, Stephen Sund lifetime cop with metropolitan police and capitol police

The former Speaker knows full well that the Speaker is not in charge of the security of the building.

[gratuitous]

20. Sure, Newton

And if the Speaker had sealed the Capitol chamber and posted guards and metal detectors at every point of ingress, you'd be squealing like a piglet about "secret" certifications carried out behind closed doors in the dead of night (it's always the dead of night somewhere on the globe).

[Caliman73]

21. The most telling thing is WHERE he chooses to share his opinion.

He did not go on any reputable network to share his thoughts. He went on Conservative propaganda channel Fox. He would not say that on ABC, CBS, etc... I think even Chuck Todd would push back on that stupid statement (even if only slightly).

Gingrich is just as trash as this newest crop of Republican fools.

[sinkingfeeling]

22. I didn't know she commanded the National Guard and US Army.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

23. Kick

[Orrex]

26. He's another one who should have died six or seven decades ago.

[Progressive Jones]

27. This Reaganoid residue has been showing up lately. Is he making a run for office? nt

[niyad]

29. It is still alive???