Newt Gingrich Nukes Trump For Appealing To “Rabid” MAGA Base

Former Republican House Speaker and failed GOP Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich did the unthinkable this week when he actually called out Donald Trump for pandering to the most “rabid” part of the Republican base. Gingrich made the comments while explaining that Trump’s mass deportation plans only appeal to the grossest part of the Party and that they probably won’t end up happening because of that. But the wheels appear to already be in motion, as Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich is many things, uh, many, many horrible things, to be honest with you, but a moderate he is not. I mean, Newt Gingrich is the Contract for America Guy, you know, that ushered in all of these horrible right wing policies. He's the guy that, you know, helped orchestrate the impeachment of Bill Clinton. So, Newt Gingrich, there was a time when he was about as extreme as you could get for the Republican party, but by today's MAGA standards, Newt Gingrich is really just a moderate Republican, and even he thinks that some of Donald Trump's ideas are about as stupid as humanly possible, because as Gingrich said in an interview with the Guardian, Donald Trump was just trying to appeal to the most rabid part of the Republican party. Specifically, Gingrich says it's the rabid part of the Republican party that wants to deport legal immigrants, not just illegal, right?

We've all heard of the plans, we have heard of Operation Second Look, where the Trump administration under the guidance of Stephen Miller says that they wanna look and see if maybe there's a way we can denaturalize, naturalized citizens, strip them of the citizenship and send them back to a country where they're no longer a citizen. They actually tried to do it during the first term, and they've already said we're bringing it back for the second term. So yes, there are already plans in place to strip people of their citizenship and deport them, but Gingrich says, probably not gonna happen. Here is what Gingrich said to the Guardian. I'd be very surprised if you see any significant effort to change the game for people who are here legally. I, I just think there's a very small faction of the party that's rabid about this.

That's where you're wrong, Newt. You see, Newt, you've been so embedded in Republican politics and you ran for president and you did really, really badly. It was hilarious, but you haven't paid attention to what your party has become. Now, I agree with you that there is a portion of the base that is rabid about deporting legal people, but I think it's much bigger than you think. We have seen it on social media. We have seen it pushed by people like Steve Bannon and Laura Loomer, Steven Miller, Tom Homan. These are people that want the legal immigrants, even the naturalized citizens to be kicked out of the country. So you're sitting there saying like, ah, I don't think there's gonna be any real attempt to do this. They've already got the plan in place, operation second look. So don't sit there and try to tell the public, like, ah, calm down. It ain't gonna

Happen when they're literally putting their plans in place. But Gingrich continued. It's nonsense to say somebody who came here when they were two, only speaks English, graduated as a high school valedictorian, and is currently a nurse or a doctor should be deported. We're going to deport them. And they don't speak the language of whatever country their parents came from, and they've learned, earned the right to be Americans. I think the Trump administration has to realize that there are gradations, uh, here that we're dealing with, and try to think through how do you both meet the long-term identity and national security interests of the country and meet the human concerns? And I think it's a real challenge.