Gingrich: Trump ‘Will Be Engaged in a Civil War’ with Elites for Entire Presidency

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said supporters of President Donald Trump should be prepared for his White House to remain “engaged in a civil war” with a bureaucracy allied with political and media elites intent on ruining his presidency.

Gingrich, during an interview Tuesday on “The Laura Ingraham Show,” pointed to the leaks that have continued to dog the Trump administration as the Left-driven media seek to unearth any shred of evidence pointing to collusion between the president’s associates and Russians in swaying the 2016 presidential election.

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“I think you have to assume that for all eight years of the Trump presidency, we will be engaged in a civil war with the bureaucracy, and that the bureaucracy will be leaking every way it can and doing everything it can to slow down what’s going on,” Gingrich said. “You see the same thing happening in the Senate where the Democrats are methodically blocking the various [administration] nominations, as The Wall Street Journal outlined in a lead editorial this morning.”

“The Trump people have not yet come to grips with the reality that they were a hostile takeover of the Republican Party, and they were a hostile takeover of the country in the sense that the national establishment repudiated them both times and lost,” he added.

The media and the bureaucrats will not rest until they have found the elusive evidence they crave that could lead to impeachment proceedings and remove the voters’ choice from office, the former House speaker said.

“And so, the Establishment is not going away. It’s not going to roll over and say, ‘Oh gee, the American people picked Donald Trump. I guess we’d better get used to it,'” Gingrich said. “Instead what they’re doing is saying, ‘I’m going to slow him down, undermine him, weaken him, do everything I can to stop him from being effective.’ And we’re living through that, and that’s what you’re watching.”

Noting that Democrats cannot accept Clinton lost “on her own because she was a terrible candidate, and she couldn’t have lost because she had terrible ideas,” he said the only justification liberals can stomach was that “the Russians did it.” And they remain desperate to find proof that Trump colluded with the Russians.

“And they’ve been looking for proof now for seven months. They don’t have any. I have yet to see anything which resembles a serious effort to change the election,” Gingrich said. “And I think you really have to question the degree to which this is a Washington phenomenon.”

“This is why I think the president should focus on issues that matter to the American people, such as jobs and economic growth. Let the lawyers fight it out. Let The New York Times and Washington Post be happy covering trivia,” he added. “But in the long run, I don’t think this is going to come to anything. But on the Left, it gives them something to write about and be excited about and allows them to avoid thinking about how bankrupt their ideology is.”

The former House speaker also criticized the president for retaining so many holdovers from former President Barack Obama’s administration in key department positions.

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“I do think there are holdovers — this is one of the great weaknesses of the administration right now — that in all too many places they have holdovers from the Obama years,” he said. “Those people were totally, bitterly opposed to them, and yet they’re still in government office and there’s no reason to believe that they’re doing anything except being harmful.”

Gingrich said that the more Trump can focus on creating jobs and ushering in a new era of economic growth and tax cuts, the more he can combat effectively the Left’s hysterical narrative.

“If Trump will just go back to being Mr. Jobs, Mr. Economy, Mr. Economic Growth, if they would outline the tax cut bill now, right now in July, spend all of August … focusing the American people on what the American people care about, which is jobs and take-home pay, and then really force the Congress in September to mark up and move a tax bill with a specific goal …” then he still has a shot at prevailing, Gingrich said. (go to page 2 to continue reading)[lz_pagination]