On Monday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA), an erudite historian, praised President-elect Donald Trump as unique and called him “a mythic figure.”
Gingrich, who has a PhD in European history and has written numerous books, including many historical novels, made his comments on Fox News.
“If you’re a relatively sophisticated leader around the world, and you watch nine years of the rise of Donald Trump, and you watch two impeachments, and you watch all of these efforts to catch him in the law, and you watch two assassination attempts and the guy just keeps coming,’ Gingrich enthused. “As I said the other day, this is a mythic figure, almost like the various Scandinavian Beowulfs and other kinds of sagas. There’s no practical way that you can explain Trump within a normal political structure.”
“He now represents, clearly, something like, according to the latest…
