Sam Donaldson: Gingrich Is "Like Lenin," but Only "Shot Democrats"

On the January 8, 1997 Tonight Show, ABC's Sam Donaldson equated Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich with the first communist dictator of Russia. “Newt Gingrich’s problem, I’ve always thought, he’s like Lenin. They both made a revolution by shooting people — Newt shot Democrats, Lenin shot everybody — and then they didn’t have enough sense to stop shooting once they won."