Newt Gingrich blasted liberal media for creating anti-Trump “hysteria” and for trying to tell the GOP presidential race frontrunner which neighborhoods he can’t visit.
In an interview today with Fox News regarding anti-Trump media fear-mongering, former House Speaker Gingrich blasted the Washington Post for its editorial, “To Defend Our Democracy Against Trump, the GOP Must Aim for a Brokered Convention,” and predicted media hysteria will intensify as the election process unfolds:
“Look, I think the hysteria of the left is going to get worse and worse all summer. The Post is typical of that.”
He also accused liberal media of ignoring Hillary Clinton’s scandals because they consider her a true believer in leftist doctrine:
“They can, somehow, swallow two thousand confidential and secret emails by Hillary Clinton, they can swallow two billion dollars at the Clinton Foundation, they can swallow all sorts of unanswered problems and conflicts with Hillary because, after all, she’s on the left, and therefore, she’s of the truth faith.”
Gingrich then slammed the hubris of liberal media outlets like MSNBC who say Donald Trump shouldn’t campaign in African-American communities and think they “own the country”:
“What’s gonna get worse, I predict, is when it begins to sink in that Trump is going to be prepared to go into the African-American community, to actually go into neighborhoods that the Democrats think are closed to Republicans.
You had somebody the other day at MSNBC that said, “Well, he shouldn’t campaign in Chicago or St. Louis or Cleveland, because they’ve had racially-sensitive shootings.”
“Now, the idea that an American candidate for the American presidency has any neighborhood he can’t go in will tell you just how far the left has gone towards thinking it owns the country.
“The Washington Post is part of the left, unfortunately. That editorial represents, accurately, the hysteria of the left.”