Newt Gingrich Says His Own Affairs And Divorce Helped Him Impeach Clinton

Posted by | March 27, 2011 11:13 | Filed under: Top Stories


Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who recently said he had affairs “partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country,” was asked by Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday if he thought it hypocritical to impeach Bill Clinton for the very thing he was doing. Gingrich replied that his affairs were helpful in understanding how to impeach the president.

WALLACE: There is something else that bothers people. You were leading the charge to push Bill Clinton from office for lying about an affair and yes, he lied in a court proceeding, in a deposition, where he was sworn to tell the truth, whole truth, nothing but the truth. At the same time, you were leading that charge, you were having an affair. Isn’t that hypocrisy?

GINGRICH: No. Look, obviously it’s complex and obviously I wasn’t doing things to be proud of. On the other hand, what I said clearly — and I knew this in part going through a divorce. I had been in depositions. I had been in situations where you had to swear to tell the truth. I understood that in a federal court, in a case in front of a federal judge, to commit a felony, which is what he did, perjury was a felony. The question I raised was simple: should a president of the united states be above the law?

WALLACE: I’ll ask you man-to-man. did you think to yourself I’m living in a really glass house? Maybe I shouldn’t be throwing stones?

GINGRICH: No. I thought to myself if I cannot do what I have to do as a public leader, I would have resigned.

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