Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who has been in lock-down in Italy for several weeks, on Monday said there are several U.S. governors who are showing their "ideological bias" with shutdown rules and people have their "teeth on edge because they're watching politicians abuse their power."
"One governor, for example, said it was okay for Planned Parenthood to stay open for abortions, but it wasn't okay for the churches to have services," Gingrich said on Fox News' "Fox and Friends." "Well, that's clearly just an ideological abuse of emergency."
He said he thinks President Donald Trump is right with his call for Americans to go back to work slowly and carefully, as different states will have different situations.
"Let's learn from what works and doesn't work," Gingrich said. "One state should study every other state as they go through this process, and in a couple of months, we will be dramatically further down the road."
Meanwhile, Gingrich said he believes Americans can feel "pretty good" about what the Trump administration has done with coronavirus.
Gingrich also on Monday said the pandemic has been a "stunningly eye-opening experience." "The University of Southampton estimates that if the Chinese had been honest, 95% of the people who have died would still be alive," said Gingrich. "Now, think about that. Over 160,000 dead and according to the University of Southampton, 95% of those people died because the Chinese Communist dictatorship deliberately lied and got its puppets at the World Health Organization to deliberately lie ... something has to be done to hold the dictatorship and Xi Jinping and his entire group accountable for the damage they have done to the human race worldwide."
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