Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich bashed Mitt Romney’s efforts to stop Donald Trump dead in his tracks, calling them “pathetic.”
“I don’t know what happened to Mitt, but it is weird; it is bizarre,” Gingrich told the Wall Street Journal. “Having a guy like that go berserk in public makes you wonder what his problems are.”
Gingrich, who lost the 2012 Republican nomination, endorsed Trump after he became the GOP’s presumptive nominee. The ex-speaker has made it known that he is open to serving as vice president.
Asked by the Journal about whether he would accept such a position, Gingrich again expressed interest.
“I have no idea if I’m being considered; that’s up to The Donald,” Gingrich said. “We would certainly sit down and talk about it seriously if he wanted to, but this is his call.”
Gingrich heaped praise on Trump in the interview, but said the advice he would offer Trump would be to ask him to be “less aggressively obnoxious.”
