Gingrich Sets the Record Straight on NPR: Left-Wing Justice Department’s Special Counsel Mueller Has Hired Anti-Trump ‘Killers’
by PENNY STARR
BreitBart.com
27 Jul 2017
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich set the record straight in an interview with National Public Radio on Wednesday, saying that there is an entrenched left-wing establishment at the Department of Justice that is running the agency and its investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and the Trump campaign’s connection to it following Attorney General Jeff Session’s recusal in the matter.
Morning Edition host Rachel Martin began the interview by playing a sound byte of President Donald Trump saying he is “disappointed” in Sessions during a joint press conference on Tuesday with the Lebanese prime minister.
Martin asked Gingrich about his recent conversation with the president, which included speaking about Sessions.
“Well, I think the president’s deeply troubled,” Gingrich said. “And I think that he’s legitimately troubled.
“The Justice Department is a extraordinarily left-wing institution,” Gingrich said. “Ninety-seven percent of its donations went to Hillary Clinton.
“It has an embedded bureaucracy, which was captured very, very well by Sidney Powell in her book Licensed To Lie.” Gingrich said. “And I think that he’s deeply troubled by the entire way that both Comey and Mueller have operated and the degree to which the attorney general has not exercised any authority over that. So…”
As the interview continued Gingrich called the investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller a “fishing expedition.”
And when Martin said it would be “suspect” if there were no investigation, the following exchange took place:
Gingrich: Of course it’s suspect to you. But isn’t it equally suspect to you that 97 percent of the donations by people employed at Justice went to Hillary Clinton and that, in terms of Mueller’s law firm, it was 99.82 percent went to Hillary Clinton? And in terms of the people he’s been hiring, these are paid killers. If you read Sidney Powell’s book about the Enron case, you will see these names coming up. And these are people who the Supreme Court…
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