Newt Gingrich suggests Special Counsel Robert Mueller is stacking his legal team with left-leaning lawyers in a bid to take down Donald Trump
The ex-speaker hinted at the allegation during an interview on ABC’s This Week
‘You tell me why the first four names that came up… gave to Democrats,’ he said
He continued with the attack: ‘Explain to me why I should relax as a Republican’
Some of Mueller’s hires have included people who backed to Hillary and Obama
By LIAM QUINN
DAILYMAIL.COM
18 June 2017
Newt Gingrich has appeared to support Donald Trump’s ‘Witch Hunt’ claims by accusing Special Counsel Robert Mueller of stacking his legal team with left-leaning lawyers.
The former speaker attacked Mueller, as well as the Justice Department, during an interview on ABC’s This Week.
‘You tell me why the first four names that came up, I don’t know about the next nine, but the four names are all people who gave to Democrats.
He continued: ‘Two of them are people with a record of hiding evidence from the defense, and one of them is a person who defended the Clinton Foundation.
‘Now, in this environment with a Justice Department where 97 per cent of the donations last year went to Hillary, explain to me why I should relax as a Republican.
The interview then changed topic to Trump’s recent tweets, including one in which he said ‘I am being investigated’, with Gingrich admitting the constant stream of social media posts does not help.
‘Trump has a compulsion to counterattack, he is very pugnacious,’ 74-year-old said.
‘I don’t think it serves him well, I don’t think that tweet helped him, but it’s who he has been his whole life.’
Gingrich’s suggestion Mueller’s team is becoming a partisan attack on the president has been pushed by the president on Twitter, as well as conservative media outlets this week.
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