In the same hour Donald Trump embraced a harsher tone on Hillary Clinton, former House speaker Newt Gingrich appears to also have followed suit.
The former House speaker and possible running mate for the presumptive GOP presidential nominee chewed out Clinton in a Wednesday interview on Fox News. Gingrich compared Clinton to President Obama, but added a second Clinton presidency would be far worse than her husband’s or the current Democrat in office.
“Hillary is Obama plus corruption,” Gingrich told host Sean Hannity. “Over and over again, you find that Hillary is at the center of a cesspool of corruption, which runs from the Clinton Foundation to the State Department to the campaign machine in a way that frankly, in the tradition of the founding fathers, is sickening.”
Gingrich’s stronger tone — a step up from his standard criticisms of Clinton — happened during the same hour Trump took the stage at a rally in Sacramento, Calif. Trump unleashed brutal attacks on the former secretary of state, indicating he may be beginning to focus solely on Clinton as he had promised to do earlier in the campaign when the time was right.
Gingrich, who has endorsed Trump, called the New York businessman the “first genuine outsider” in his lifetime to take on the entire national establishment in both the Republican and Democratic parties.
