Newt Gingrich Denies Alt-Right Influence On Trump As 'Garbage'
So Newton Leroy Gingrich appeared on Face the Nation this morning, and was asked to respond to a National Review article by Ian Tuttle. Tuttle writes:
Trump's "victory in the primaries gave unprecedented visibility to the alt-Right, a small but vocal fringe of white supremacists and anti-Semites and self-proclaimed fascists...supporting a President Trump cannot mean giving a pass to the ugly fringe that has risen with him."
Newt called that "garbage." Check out his definition of Donald Trump:
"Donald Trump is a mainstream conservative who wants to profoundly take on the Left. The Left is infuriated that anybody would challenge the legitimacy of their moral superiority. and so the Left is hysterical. But the fact is... you get this with Steve Bannon. He's a naval officer, a Hollywood movie producer, a manager at Goldman Sachs. The idea that somehow he represents... I never heard about the alt right until this nut case started writing about them."
The thing is, Face the Nation host John Dickerson left out of the conversation the name-checking that Ian Tuttle did about the alt-Right and Trump. Here's the rest: (yes link goes to National Review be warned)