Trump sycophant Newt Gingrich attacks Harris ad … and gets roasted for his hypocrisy

Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is running a wink-and-a-nod ad that shows two women entering a polling location and secretly signaling to each other that they’re voting for Harris while one of the women’s husbands votes for Donald Trump.
The wife then allows the husband to believe that she, too, voted for Trump.
The ad has triggered MAGA men. Religious leaders insist because the husband is the head of the household, she should submit to his political beliefs. Others, like Fox News host Jesse Watters and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, insist it’s a betrayal of the marriage vows.
“For them to tell people to lie is just one further example of the depth of their corruption,” Gingrich said. “How do you run a country, saying wives should lie to their husbands, husbands should lie to their wives?”
Now, there are several problems with Gingrich’s take on the ad, but we’ll focus on just two: First, Gingrich backs Trump, the candidate who has lied publicly several thousand times. Secondly, Gingrich and Watters have been married multiple times and have been embroiled in infidelity scandals.
Former NBC anchor John Harwood responded to Gingrich: “If there’s one thing we know, it’s that adulterers like Newt Gingrich cannot tolerate lying.”
Peter Wehner, writer for The Atlantic, jumped in, too: “This is rather amusing: Newt Gingrich is outraged — outraged! — at an ad about spouses lying to each other about who they vote for. No comment yet from Marianne Gingrich. (She has said he asked her for an open marriage, and she refused.)”
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