Gingrich: 'I Think That We Are in for a Long, Difficult Couple of Years'

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Gingrich: 'I Think That We Are in for a Long, Difficult Couple of Years'

By Susan Jones | November 7, 2016 | 5:47 AM EST

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Former House Speaker and current Trump supporter Newt Gingrich. (AP File Photo)

(CNSNews.com) - No matter who wins the presidential election, our divided country is in "for a long, difficult couple of years," Trump supporter and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday.

"I think, tragically, we have drifted into an environment where if Hillary is elected, the criminal investigations will be endless; and if Trump is elected, it will be just like Madison, Wisconsin with Scott Walker. The opposition of the government employee unions will be so hostile and so direct and so immediate, that it will be a continuing fight over who controls the country.

"I think that we are in for a long, difficult couple of years. Maybe a decade or more, because the gap between those of us who are deeply offended by the dishonesty and the corruption and the total lack of honesty on the Clinton team, and -- and on their side...their defense of unions, which they have to defend. I understand that. But what will lead to a Madison, Wisconsin kind of struggle if Trump wins."

Republican Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin faced a recall election in 2012, stemming from a controversial law he supported in 2011 that limited the collective bargaining rights of public union workers. The law passed and survived a court challenge, but it also sparked weeks of massive protests at the state Capitol.

At one point in the interview, host Chuck Todd challenged Gingrich on his use of the phrase, "let the corruption continue."

Gingrich was talking about establishment Republicans who "would rather have Hillary Clinton win and have a left-wing Supreme Court and have the corruption continue rather than elect Donald Trump."

"You used the word (phrase) 'let the corruption continue,'" Todd said. "Have we been too loose with some words?" he asked Gingrich. "Do you worry that we've let the language get too loose?"

"No, Chuck," Gingrich said. "I worry -- and with all due respect to you as a person, you know, that we're -- we're pretty good friends. I worry that the elite media has blindly refused to tell the truth."

Gingrich pointed to foreign gifts given to the Clinton Foundation and all the foreign speeches delivered by the Clintons after she resigned as Secretary of State.

"It's the U.S. Constitution," Gingrich said. "There's a section of the Constitution called the emoluments clause that says no one nor their spouse can take money from foreigners.

"She (Hillary Clinton) has to be guilty of 70 or 100 counts just on that one charge. Then you look at the people who came into -- into the office [of Secretary of State]. And by the way, the really interesting thing about WikiLeaks and everything else is they showed us how corrupt the system was, they showed us the people who were being told, you need to get them in [to see the Secretary] because they're giving to the -- to the Foundation.

"I think the real corruption is the lack of the media being willing to be honest about how much lawlessness the Clintons stand for and how much they have ripped off the American people," Gingrich said.

Article I, Section 9, Clause 8 of the U.S. Constitution reads: "No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State."

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It's on ! Media doubling down
CNN's Christiane Amanpour: Journalists Should be 'Truthful, Not Neutral'

AMANPOUR: Well, I've come up with a sort of a slogan right now because I'm about frustrated at all of this. So I now say truthful, not neutral. There is a difference here. Truthful is bringing the truth. Neutral can be creating a false equivalence between this side and that. (Applause) I'm really glad you agree because it is to you who I am reporting the news and I really want you to know that I go out of my way to bring you the truth. And the truth is actually there. You can find the truth. And there are facts. And there are figure and there are other things. And you can't conflate the two.

So giving equal airtime and reporting in a fair and balanced way on contentious issues, is apparently, not telling “the truth.” To add to that, apparently journalists are supposed to feed audiences a pre-approved message that reflects their own network’s values.

This was evidenced in her most recent reporting on Brexit, where Amanpour had a meltdown, telling Anderson Cooper, “A lot of the Leave movements are led by the hard-right, very, very xenophobic, anti-immigrant, very populist, nationalist, white identity politics.”

All the while CNN and Amanpour held to their elitist morality with a chyron that conveyed CNN was reporting the “truth” against the conservative party’s “myths.”

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