House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff won't be able to keep the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump behind closed doors indefinitely, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Wednesday.
"You have to say to yourself why is it that Pelosi and Schiff believe that they have to make a case in secret," Gingrich told Fox News' "America's Newsroom." "(It's) because they can't defend it in public and of course what they're doing by selectively, they're smearing the president. They think in the long run they're weakening him. I don't."
That might be a good strategy if the presidential election was "next Thursday," said Gingrich.
"We went through the whole cycle with Russia and (Robert) Mueller and everybody running in circles and it faded away," said Gingrich. "Now we have a new deal and we have Schiff instead of Mueller and we have a totally rigged game. It is all being done in secret. It can't stay in secret."
Gingrich further commented on Ambassador William Taylor's testimony, saying his take is that Taylor is a "very smart man" who "believed in a certain world view," but the truth is, other presidents like Franklin Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson used "personal assistance."
"This idea that somehow Trump is doing something unique is a purely made-up bunch of baloney," said Gingrich. "I presume Taylor doesn't like Trump's style and disagreed with his policies...that doesn't make it impeachable."
He also commented on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's statements that the Senate would have to take up impeachment if the House sends the case over.
"Who knows," said Gingrich. "Mitch McConnell is an extraordinarily smart manager of the Senate and has a pretty good sense of where his members are," said Gingrich.
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