Historians will consider the former impeachment inquiry opened against President Donald Trump to be the "theater of the absurd," former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Wednesday.
"The president gave an extraordinary historic speech on religion and religious freedom yesterday," Gingrich told Fox News' "Fox and Friends." "People I know who care deeply about that topic think it's one of the most historic speeches given by any modern president on the issue of religious liberty and God. And, yet, he is surrounded, basically, by a Democratic party which has lost its mind."
Gingrich also decried House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's announcement as the "infantile stage of liberalism," and linked in teenaged climate change activist Greta Thunberg, saying the impeachment announcement was "matched yesterday by a 16-year-old addressing the United Nations as though she knew something."
Pelosi, said Gingrich, had not seen the transcript of a call between Trump and the president of Ukraine, which she said led to the decision to launch the formal inquiry, or interviewed the whistleblower who brought the call to the intelligence community's attention.
"When she starts the investigation of the Ukraine, the person who is going to get clobbered is Joe Biden," said Gingrich. "If you look at Hunter Biden, his son in China and in Ukraine, what you are looking at is a case study in corruption."
Meanwhile, Trump is releasing an unredacted version of the transcript on Wednesday, and Gingrich said the administration did the right thing by asking Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky for his approval first.
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