Newt Gingrich Sees ‘Long, Difficult’ Years Ahead No Matter Who Wins (Video)

Trump “has hurt his campaign at times by saying things that were unwise,” the former House speaker says

Newt Gingrich, Donald Trump adviser and former Speaker of the House, believes that no matter who wins the presidency, “we are in for a long, difficult couple of years, maybe a decade or more,” he told host Chuck Todd on Sunday’s “Meet the Press.”

“I think, tragically, we have drifted into an environment where if Hillary is elected, the criminal investigations will be endless, and if Trump is elected, it will just be like Madison, Wisconsin, with Scott Walker,” Gingrich said, referring to the Wisconsin governor who faced a recall election in 2012 after igniting controversy over a bill curtailing union collective-bargaining rights.

“The opposition of the government employee unions will be so hostile and so direct and so immediate, there will be a continuing fight over who controls the country,” Gingrich added.

Gingrich’s praise for Trump was mixed at best, saying that the GOP candidate “has hurt his campaign at times by saying things that were unwise.”

“On the one hand, he’s one of the most brilliant marketers I’ve ever seen,” Gingrich said. “And on the other hand, for a while there, he was undercutting himself. I suspect if he had not done that, he’d be ahead by 10 or 15 points right now.”

“I think that we are in for a long, difficult couple of years, maybe a decade or more, because the gap between those of us who are deeply offended by the dishonesty and the corruption and the total lack of honesty in the Clinton Team,” concluded Gingrich, who as Speaker of the House in the 1990s urged the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.

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