The former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich spoke out late Tuesday night to slam President Joe Biden for his State of the Union address. Gingrich did not hesitate to call out Biden for telling “lie after lie” to the American people in his speech, which the Republican said only showed how out of touch with reality the current president really is.
“Well, first of all, this is the last time we’ll see Nancy Pelosi at a State of the Union,” Gingrich told Fox News. “And I look forward to seeing Kevin McCarthy sitting up there next year. So that, to me, was the one optimistic moment.”
“This was a very dangerous speech because either Joe Biden believed in the speech, in which case he’s out of touch with reality, or it was a deliberate lie to the American people, lie after lie, after lie,” he added. “Your point is exactly right. Trump had the price of oil per barrel down at about $46. The difference between that and $100 a barrel is $54 going to Putin every single hour.”
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Not stopping there, Gingrich proceeded to warn that the price of oil is only emboldening Russian President Vladimir Putin in his invasion of Ukraine.
“[T]he point is, at that price, Putin is making over a billion dollars a day to finance his military activities, thanks to the Biden policy,” Gingrich continued. “Biden had a chance to do a lot of things tonight. And I would simply say I’m more optimistic than you are.”
“Not that I don’t think this will be brutal and difficult,” he concluded. “But big cities absorb armies. It’s one of the great lessons of World War Two in places like Stalingrad and Leningrad, and Putin ought to understand that. If the, if the Ukrainians are prepared to fight, we have an absolute moral obligation. And Congress should ask us to start moving money, passing legislation.”
Gingrich proceeded to double down on these thoughts in an interview with Fox News on Wednesday.
“We don’t have a strategy,” he said. “I thought it was really frightening after I watched the whole [State of the Union] and thought about it for a while because either he knows he’s lying, and so he goes and gives a speech the whole world’s watching in the middle of a war, he gives it anyway knowing it’s a lie. Or he doesn’t know he’s lying which may be even more frightening. He may believe this stuff.”
Many Americans will certainly agree with Gingrich’s assessment of Biden’s speech.
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