Someone must have smacked the “history reset” button on Newt that comes standard with every Trump supporter because all of a sudden he’s completely forgotten his YUGE decades-old support for free trade.
Why is he doing this? Because el Trumpo is dangling the hopes of a VP slot in front of his face:
More from Politico:
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich, under consideration as Donald Trump’s running mate, is dropping his decades-long support of free trade deals and picking up Trump’s strongly protectionist position.
“I basically agree with Trump’s speech on trade,” Gingrich said in an email to POLITICO on Friday.
Citing China’s taking of American intellectual property and the fact that the country is now in “a different era,” Gingrich said he had moved closer to the position of the presumptive Republican nominee.
That represents a significant shift for Gingrich, who championed trade agreements while a congressional leader, and a move that would smooth over one of the biggest policy differences between the two men who could form the Republican ticket.
Trump delivered a scathing rebuke of America’s trade policies in Pennsylvania this week, calling the North American Free Trade Agreement, which Gingrich helped approve while in Congress, “the worst trade deal” in U.S. history and vowing to renegotiate it. Trump also said he would pull out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact negotiated by the Obama administration.
I noted two nights ago that Newty was even referring to Trump’s closing of the free market.
We’re all very impressed by Newt’s ability to completely abandon conservative principles for the sake of political opportunity. Excuse me, I’m going to throw away my “With Newt 2012” paraphernalia now.