Newt Gingrich says Mueller investigation is really five scandals, none involving President Trump

Gingrich: “You originally have the Clinton scandals going all the way back to cattle futures in 1978”

From the May 30 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:

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PETE HEGSETH (CO-HOST): As you often do, you've dissected what [President Donald Trump] is facing in the Mueller probe, and you say it's not one scandal, it's actually five scandals. Dissect that for us, will you?

NEWT GINGRICH (FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR): Yeah. I actually wrote a piece -- a newsletter both for Gingrich Productions and we posted it at FoxNews.com -- saying that the challenge you've got is, you originally have the Clinton scandals going all the way back to cattle futures in 1978 when she made $98,000 on a $1,000 investment, which was clearly just called fraud. But the Clintons have had scandals their whole career.

Then you have the scandal of the establishment, the deep state, covering up for the Clintons, offering immunity to -- imagine, this guy bleach bits the computer so they give him immunity? They don't charge either of her top staff people? I mean, look at how they treat the Trump people, look at how they treated the Hillary Clinton people.

Then, third, you have the scandal of a totally false, that we're now learning, very long Obama administration effort to destroy Trump through a variety of investigations. And I'm convinced it goes up to [former senior adviser to President Barack Obama] Valerie Jarrett and to President Obama. You couldn't have had this scale of activity on that front.

Then, fourth, you have the scandal of the FBI itself breaking down. We now have had the top guy resign, we've had the number two guy resign. Both of them may well face criminal charges. You had several other top people had to resign or retire. All of that ties back into the Justice Department and the Obama White House.

And then finally, you're beginning to see some people like [former Director of National Intelligence] General [James] Clapper kind of melt down, because I think there were a number of folks who thought they could go ahead and do whatever they wanted to because Hillary would cover it up. And it's gradually sinking in that, in fact, they might be vulnerable.

Previously:

Newt Gingrich compares Russia probe to Game of Thrones

Newt Gingrich compares FBI raids of Trump associates to Stalin and the Gestapo

Fox's Newt Gingrich: Russia probe is “staggeringly corrupt” compared to FBI's investigation into Clinton's emails