Market Watch reports:
Newt Gingrich is calling for political unity — which has sent social media atwitter. The former Republican Speaker of the House argues against impeaching former President Donald Trump a second time in a pair of tweets that have gone viral, warning that this will undermine new President Joe Biden’s attempts to unify the nation by turning the ex-chief executive into a martyr … just like Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
Establishment politicians should think long and hard before turning President Trump into the American equivalent of Alexei Navalny. Navalny is Putin’s major opponent-jailed, harassed, imprisoned, poisoned. Turning President Trump into a martyr will deepen political conflict.
— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) January 24, 2021
If President Biden really wanted unity rather than surrender he would call on the Senate to drop impeachment. With troops in the capitol, cries for exterminating and “reeducating” Republicans, AOC’s fear of being around Republicans, the divisions grow deeper and more bitter.
— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) January 24, 2021
Newt, this is offensive. And wrong. Trump is the equivalent of Putin. Not Navalny. https://t.co/3JyKX5i8fj
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) January 24, 2021
Bizarre, even sick comparison. There is no universe in which someone as committed to truth as Navalny – he is prepared to die for it – can be compared to a man who lied and conned his way into the presidency, doing terrible damage to America’s credibility. https://t.co/3omNIrNe5R
— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) January 24, 2021
Oh horse sh*t. Letting Trump get away with his crimes only will embolden a worse sinner later. Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time. . . Charge. Arrest. Prosecute. https://t.co/3M5j6egNIt
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) January 25, 2021