Trump Indictment Paving the Way for His Comeback to Oval Office, Predicts Gingrich

According to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, the charges against former President Donald Trump are providing a significant boost to his efforts to return to the White House. He explained to The Epoch Times that Republicans are being compelled to make a choice between Trump and corruption, even his Republican critics such as Senator Mitt Romney and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush have not been impressed with the case.

Gingrich, who is a contributor to The Epoch Times, said, “Trump is stronger today than he was a month ago.”

Recent poll data and political analysis mostly favor Gingrich’s prediction. After a New York grand jury indicted him on accusations regarding his alleged participation in a hush money payment to adult entertainment actress Stormy Daniels, Trump raised $8 million in four days. A Yahoo! News-YouGov survey conducted immediately following the indictment found 57% of the respondents favoring Trump over his leading hypothetical event opponent, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who received 31% of the votes. In a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted between March 14-20, 48% of Republican participants supported Trump as their party’s presidential candidate, which increased to 44% by the time the poll was released on April 3.

Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan District Attorney, brought 34 counts of felony charges against Trump, making him the first former president ever to face criminal charges. Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges on April 4. The indictment has brought all significant Republican 2024 hopefuls together to rally behind Trump. Gingrich, who has declared the case nothing but a “publicity stunt,” explained that the prosecution has made it “challenging for anyone to attack him because it sounds like you are siding with the corrupt establishment.”

Gingrich predicts that Trump will likely be the Republican nominee and that “Biden’s policy failures are going to make it more likely that Trump will win the election.” Trump, according to Gingrich, would be the first American president since Grover Cleveland, who won the presidency in 1884 and then again in 1892, to lose an election and make a comeback to win a second time.

Gingrich quoted Democrat Edward S. Bragg from Wisconsin, a Cleveland ally, in saying that people love and respect Cleveland “not only for himself, for his character, for his integrity and judgment and iron will, but they love him most of all for the enemies he has made.” According to Gingrich, “That could pretty quickly be applied to Donald Trump.”

Gingrich added that the indictment is a “very bad, very dangerous precedent” that reminds him of the lead up to the fall of the Roman Republic, exacerbated by economic issues, government corruption, and crime. “It has to worry you, to watch some of the stuff going on here,” he said. “Because you now have people on the left who are willing to abuse the law, do things that clearly have nothing to do with justice.”

The unsealing of the Trump indictment has prompted some legal experts to question the charges’ merits, and in Gingrich’s opinion, “every time you turn around, the case gets weaker.” According to him, “It tells you how much they hate and fear Donald Trump.” He noted, “We’ve been through seven years now of those constant attacks by the corrupt establishment.”