Newt, Trump’s inconvenient truth-teller
The former House speaker is one of the few surrogates openly willing to flout the Trump transition party line. And Trump is usually OK with that.
By Katie Glueck
01/08/17 07:15 AM EST
He has dismissed a Trump business decision as “weird.” He openly fretted that the Trump team might “lose their nerve.” And he likened Donald Trump to an aggressive bear from the movie “The Revenant”: if provoked, “he will walk over, bite your face off, and sit on you.”
Newt Gingrich has been something of an unorthodox surrogate for the president-elect, blithely serving up a potent, public mix of irreverence and admiration for Trump on Sunday talk shows and on Twitter, at think tanks and through e-books.
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