Newt Gingrich testified before January 6 grand jury
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Source: CNN Politics
CNN Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich testified Thursday before a federal grand jury investigating January 6, 2021, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Gingrich allegedly communicated with senior advisers to former President Donald Trump about television advertisements that relied on false claims of election fraud, according to documents obtained by the House select committee that investigated January 6. The panel also claimed Gingrich played a role in the effort to submit fake slates of electors in battleground states that Trump lost, according to committee documents.
An attorney for Gingrich did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
As the special counsels investigation into Trumps retention of classified documents shows signs of wrapping up, the probe into the attack on the US Capitol and efforts to subvert the peaceful transfer of power following the 2020 election has carried on.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/08/politics/newt-gingrich-testify-january-6-grand-jury/index.html
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TurboDem
(214 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,907 posts)sitting behind the scenes directing the loon lawyers (including those in Congress).
Gingrich managed to weasel out of testifying in GA for Fani Willis' investigation, but someone made sure he didn't slide out of this.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,425 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,907 posts)The former Republican House speaker is believed to have repeatedly contacted White House aides about fake electors
Hugo Lowell
@hugolowell
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The House January 6 select committee on Thursday asked the former Republican House speaker Newt Gingrich to testify about his repeated contacts with White House aides in Donald Trumps efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, even in the evening after the Capitol attack had taken place.
The request to Gingrich was for voluntary cooperation though the select committee showed it now appears to believe he was involved in a potential conspiracy planned ahead of time to lay the groundwork that would lead to reversing Trumps defeat on January 6.
Congressman Bennie Thompson, the committee chair, said in a letter to Gingrich that investigators were interested in him counseling Trump aides to make TV ads about debunked election fraud conspiracies to pressure state legislators into decertifying Biden electors.
The letter detailed that it had communications that showed he tried to liaise with the former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and former Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone about the fake elector scheme, asking whether anyone was coordinating Trump slates to Congress so that he could be declared the winner.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/01/house-capitol-attack-panel-newt-gingrich-testify
electric_blue68
(14,891 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,907 posts)like the old "knowledgeable professor" and was nothing more than a stoichiastic terrorist - literally from his beginnings in elective office.
I always like to throw this essay in whenever his name comes up -
Newt Gingrich turned partisan battles into bloodsport, wrecked Congress, and paved the way for Trumps rise. Now hes reveling in his achievements.
Story by McKay Coppins
November 2018 Issue
Updated on October 17, 2018
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On June 24, 1978, Gingrich stood to address a gathering of College Republicans at a Holiday Inn near the Atlanta airport. It was a natural audience for him. At 35, he was more youthful-looking than the average congressional candidate, with fashionably robust sideburns and a cool-professor charisma that had made him one of the more popular faculty members at West Georgia College. But Gingrich had not come to deliver an academic lecture to the young activists before himhe had come to foment revolution.
One of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we dont encourage you to be nasty, he told the group. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, and loyal, and faithful, and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around the campfire but are lousy in politics. For their party to succeed, Gingrich went on, the next generation of Republicans would have to learn to raise hell, to stop being so nice, to realize that politics was, above all, a cutthroat war for powerand to start acting like it.
The speech received little attention at the time. Gingrich was, after all, an obscure, untenured professor whose political experience consisted of two failed congressional bids. But when, a few months later, he was finally elected to the House of Representatives on his third try, he went to Washington a man obsessed with becoming the kind of leader he had described that day in Atlanta. The GOP was then at its lowest point in modern history. Scores of Republican lawmakers had been wiped out in the aftermath of Watergate, and those whod survived seemed, to Gingrich, sadly resigned to a permanent minority mind-set. It was like death, he recalls of the mood in the caucus. They were morally and psychologically shattered.
But Gingrich had a plan. The way he saw it, Republicans would never be able to take back the House as long as they kept compromising with the Democrats out of some high-minded civic desire to keep congressional business humming along. His strategy was to blow up the bipartisan coalitions that were essential to legislating, and then seize on the resulting dysfunction to wage a populist crusade against the institution of Congress itself. His idea, says Norm Ornstein, a political scientist who knew Gingrich at the time, was to build toward a national election where people were so disgusted by Washington and the way it was operating that they would throw the ins out and bring the outs in.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/newt-gingrich-says-youre-welcome/570832/
electric_blue68
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He made a g-d d--n list of words to use!
ExWhoDoesntCare
(4,741 posts)Did you not read it?
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,425 posts)And good evening.
Harker
(14,015 posts)I doubt that he could testify about anything without perjuring himself or incriminating himself.
Sedona
(3,769 posts)Following...
Georgia shenanigans
electric_blue68
(14,891 posts)EarnestPutz
(2,120 posts)groundloop
(11,518 posts)Diamond_Dog
(31,989 posts)Emile
(22,708 posts)JudyM
(29,236 posts)tonekat
(1,814 posts)He's behind a lot of the worst politics in our country.
newdayneeded
(1,955 posts)did he plead the "frankly"
niyad
(113,284 posts)that us wrong with the gqp, deserves o be in prison. I hear gitmo has room.
harun
(11,348 posts)So many of the political problems today were made worse by him.
BumRushDaShow
(128,907 posts)electric_blue68
(14,891 posts)for Republicans in Congress to use against Democrats in the '90's during Bill Clinton's terms, and on from there.
BumRushDaShow
(128,907 posts)which included huge tax cuts for the wealthy, and wanted to do more, where he drafted and then presented his "Contract (against) with America" during a Clinton midterm to, for the first time in 40 years, wrest the House from Democratic control.
electric_blue68
(14,891 posts)That "Contract with (on) America". Gah... Yup, I remember that, too.
And fuck, Ray-gun, too!
Sigh.
Deminpenn
(15,286 posts)every rock.