Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has seemingly accidentally helped make the case against former President Donald Trump for retaining classified documents following his departure from White House while trying to defend and compare him favorably to Joe Biden during an appearance on Fox News Tuesday morning via Mediaite.
It has been noted that while previewing former Special Counsel Robert Hur’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee about his report on Biden’s improper retention of classified materials. It was Gingrich, who first chalked up Biden’s performance at the State of the Union to Biden getting to sleep “extra long” and practice the speech many times.
“Now, if you think two hours out of a week is enough to be president here, he proved it,” said Gingrich before asserting that Biden quickly backslid and moving on to Hur’s report, which characterized Biden as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
“Hur is describing the Joe Biden in New Hampshire. He’s describing a person who can’t remember anything, and he’s describing a person who has had a lifetime of mishandling secrets which is why I think it’s as important to go after the length of time that Biden has mishandled secrets, the number of places they were,” argued Gingrich. “I mean, you can argue that Trump shouldn’t have had them in Mar-a-Lago under lock and key, but at least he knew what he was doing. In the case of Biden, he says, ‘Gee, I didn’t know they were there. I didn’t understand this-.’”
“But isn’t that the issue then, which is intent?” inquired anchor Dana Perino.
“We don’t know what his [Biden’s] intent is because I am not sure he is mentally competent enough to have an intent,” replied Gingrich, bringing the conversation back around to Biden. “That’s the whole point. You’re dealing with a guy who’s so lax, so out of touch with reality, and so easily makes up things that you have no idea what his intent was, and neither does he. If he can’t remember when he was vice president, he probably can’t remember what his intent was.”
Biden stated that he was unaware of his improper retention of documents and Trump was fully aware of what he had done, refusing to hand them back over to authorities when prodded by federal authorities.
