But if it is good news for the Gingriches, it is an(other) insult to Francis from Trump, who has sparred with the pope over immigration and climate change. Newt carried on a six-year extramarital affair with Callista in the 1990s when she, 23 years his junior, was a House staffer and he, as speaker, led the impeachment of Bill Clinton over his extramarital affair with an intern. National Catholic Reporter’s Michael Sean Winters called it “astonishing that a party that celebrates family values at every turn has a president who is on his third wife and who has bragged about his extramarital affairs and who is appointing an ambassador to the Vatican who had a six-year affair with her future husband while he was still married to his second wife.”
The nomination of Callista is also Trump’s beatification of Newt, who has done as much as anyone to coarsen American politics — and to pave the way for Trump — with his name-calling, demonizing and brinkmanship.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) introduced Gingrich on Tuesday by noting that she was valedictorian of her high school class.
And now, for his support of Trump, he is getting the ultimate patronage: the chance to live in Rome on the taxpayer’s dime
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/callista-gingrichs-nomination-to-the-vatican-stinks-to-high-heaven/2017/07/18/e131b34e-6bf5-11e7-96ab-5f38140b38cc_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-d:homepage/story&utm_term=.fa40bd77d0a6
The nomination of Callista is also Trump’s beatification of Newt, who has done as much as anyone to coarsen American politics — and to pave the way for Trump — with his name-calling, demonizing and brinkmanship.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) introduced Gingrich on Tuesday by noting that she was valedictorian of her high school class.
And now, for his support of Trump, he is getting the ultimate patronage: the chance to live in Rome on the taxpayer’s dime
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/callista-gingrichs-nomination-to-the-vatican-stinks-to-high-heaven/2017/07/18/e131b34e-6bf5-11e7-96ab-5f38140b38cc_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-d:homepage/story&utm_term=.fa40bd77d0a6
