{"id":17556,"date":"2016-12-22T04:33:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T04:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=17556"},"modified":"2016-12-22T04:47:06","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T04:47:06","slug":"newt-gingrich-says-trump-is-done-with-drain-the-swamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/newt-gingrich-says-trump-is-done-with-drain-the-swamp.html","title":{"rendered":"Newt Gingrich says Trump is done with drain the swamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Newt Gingrich says Trump is done with drain the swamp<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>Newt Gingrich says Trump is done with drain the swamp:-<\/strong> There were two notable Trumpworld headlines Wednesday morning. One was the news that Corey Lewandowski \u2014 Donald Trump&#8217;s former campaign manager who remained part of his inner circle long after leaving that job \u2014 had just opened a \u201cfull service government relations and consulting firm\u201d half a block from the White House.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The other was that the president-elect is apparently over \u201cdrain the swamp.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">That&#8217;s according to Newt Gingrich, a top ally who told NPR in an interview that aired Wednesday morning that he was instructed not to use the phrase anymore because it has fallen out of favor with Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">\u201cI&#8217;m told he now just disclaims that,\u201d Gingrich said on \u201cMorning Edition.\u201d \u201cHe now says it was cute, but he doesn&#8217;t want to use it anymore.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Gingrich said he had \u201cwritten what I thought was a very cute tweet about &#8216;the alligators are complaining,'&#8221; but that \u201csomebody wrote back and said they were tired of hearing this stuff.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Gingrich actually drafted two tweets in recent days about draining the swamp \u2014 tweets that apparently earned him the rebuke.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The alligators are unhappy about draining the swamp. That is the explanation for the nonsense about subverting the electoral college.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/newtgingrich\/status\/810559400687628288\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 18, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Watch the alligators lose today as the electors vote. Draining the swamp begins in January.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/newtgingrich\/status\/810837995553177605\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 19, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">But this should really come as no surprise. Trump himself has acknowledged his on-again, off again relationship with the phrase. And it actually wasn&#8217;t a mainstay in the campaign until the final days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Trump freely admitted that he never much liked the phrase, in fact. But he said that his crowds had prevailed upon him to embrace it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">&#8220;&#8216;Drain the swamp.&#8217; We put it in about two days ago. I said, &#8216;Drain the swamp.&#8217; I didn&#8217;t like it. I didn&#8217;t like the expression: &#8216;Drain the swamp in Washington,'&#8221; Trump said Oct. 26 at a rally in North Carolina. \u201cSo I said it three days ago; the place went crazy. I said, &#8216;You know what? I&#8217;m starting to like that expression.&#8217; And now it&#8217;s a hot \u2014 it&#8217;s like trending all over the world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">As admissions of political expediency go, this is pretty forthcoming.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">But it&#8217;s also worth noting here that Trump&#8217;s flip on this phrase seems to have come pretty suddenly. Just a day before Gingrich&#8217;s first tweet above, Trump promised in Alabama to \u201cdrain the swamp of corruption in Washington, D.C.\u201d He said the same in Orlando the day before and in Hershey, Pa., the day before that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">So it&#8217;s not clear whether a specific story or cable news item \u2014 which have a tendency to draw instant Trump policy directives and declarations \u2014 might have influenced this change of course, if indeed it sticks. But what&#8217;s clear is that Trump&#8217;s efforts to \u201cdrain the swamp\u201d have increasingly been derided and scoffed at as he has named a Goldman Sachs executive to head the Treasury Department and politicians and fellow billionaires to lead other departments. And then there are the many possible conflicts of interest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">ALEC BALDWIN-AS-TRUMP: Next I&#8217;m going to do what I promised to do my whole campaign, and I am going to build that swamp.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">KATE MCKINNON-AS-KELLYANNE CONWAY: Don&#8217;t you mean drain the swamp and build the wall?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">BALDWIN-AS-TRUMP: No, that&#8217;s too many things. Just smush them together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The sketch earned an immediate rebuke from Trump. It&#8217;s not clear whether he objected to this particular passage \u2014 his visage was compared in the sketch to a plate of mashed potatoes, after all \u2014 but you can bet Trump has noticed the derisive coverage of his pledge to \u201cdrain the swamp.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Just as it was an attractive mantra on the campaign trail, it&#8217;s become an easily accessible counterpoint to Trump&#8217;s ongoing struggles with his business empire, conflicts of interest and Cabinet picks that don&#8217;t really jibe with his promise to shake up Washington.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">And given that he never really liked the phrase, it should be no surprise he might be willing to drop it like a bad habit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2016\/12\/21\/newt-gingrich-says-trump-is-done-with-drain-the-swamp\/?utm_term=.2df1711295be<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/newt-gingrich-says-trump-is-done-with-drain-the-swamp.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newt Gingrich says Trump is done with drain the swamp Newt Gingrich says Trump is done with drain the swamp:- There were two notable Trumpworld headlines Wednesday morning. 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