Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich Thursday dismissed an opinion piece from an anonymous member of President Donald Trump's administration appearing in The New York Times as being "all junk," because the White House is continuing to function well.
"The fact is, we're going to get our second Supreme Court justice," Gingrich told Fox News' "Fox and Friends." "The fact is, the economy is growing. I mean, if Trump is so incompetent, how is all this stuff happening?"
Gingrich noted that there are several thousand political appointees, so it's hard to know who wrote the column, but he called that person a "coward."
"That's what it is is a coward who is hiding, writing anonymously," said Gingrich. "Hasn't got the guts to come out in public. And, frankly, what he ought to do is resign. Anybody who thinks that Trump is as bad as this guy thinks he is, ought to resign and go home. It's all right. Go teach at a college. They will love you. Go work at CNN. They will adore you."
But if taxpayers are going to pay that person to work for the government, but that person is undermining the president, that is an "outrageous" assumption of authority and undermines the Constitution, the former speaker added.
"Every president has weaknesses," said Gingrich. "The fact is, Trump has been remarkably effective for a guy who was never in public office, never dealt with these kind of things. His learning curve is pretty phenomenal."
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