Newt Gingrich | Fox Business Network's Varney & Co. | March 21 2023

NEWT:

I assume that they want to nominate Trump and that they think Trump's the best person to run against because you could hardly do him a bigger favor than to have a George Soros-backed over a million dollars in campaign funds Democrat who has served under two New York state attorney generals who have been involved in corruption bring, you know, a totally absurd attack. Alvin Bragg doesn't actually go after carjackers, armed robbers. He at one point issued a memo that basically said, look, if you have a gun and you're not going to use it, we're not going to charge you with having a gun and this isn't a robbery. This guy is a left-wing, professional politician. And can candidly, I'm reminded of Tom Wolf's novel bonfire of the vanities which later became a movie with Tom Hanks in that you have a politically pressured guy in Manhattan who started to back off, and the left yelled at him so loud he decided he would come back in. Now he's getting yelled at again. I'm not sure they'll ever actually go after Trump, but they've given Trump two weeks of every Republican in the country sympathizing with him.

NEWT:

I don't think Democrats are allowed to behave rationally when it involves Trump. They're part of a chanting mob along with the New York Times, and Washington Post and some of the networks. So, it's very hard for them to say why don't we be reasonable about in this. That makes them look either cowardly or worst of all they're secretly pro0rump. So, I don't think he has any negative pressure from his own party.

NEWT:

I say is that Joe Biden just vetoed a bill which means that retirees are going to have less money. He's taking money out of their pocket for his left-wing ideology. Every evidence we have is that, in fact, businesses that invest based on profit and loss make much more money than businesses that invest based on some left-wing ideology. So, he is basically saying the government's going to check on your pension to make sure you lose money by investing in the things that left-wingers believe in. I think the average American would rather have their pension be bigger, and then if they want to help save the planet, they have the money in their pocket to do it. I don't think Joe Biden should be reaching into their pension for his particular pet hobbies.

NEWT:

Well, I think if you look at the state level whether it's, you know, DeSantis in Florida or governors across the whole country, there's no question that Republican states are taking this stuff apart and are attacking head on the idea that some left-wing ideology should control your life. I think, frankly, that speaker McCarthy and the Republicans in the House are going to continue to take strong positions on this. And my guess is if one of the issues in 2024 is would you like the government to make sure you have a smaller pension so they can take care of AOC and the other left-wingers, or would you rather have free market-oriented effort for you to have the best possible pension, I think the average person's going to vote for a bigger pension. And then get to decide what to do with their own money, not some Washington bureaucrat decide it.