So Newt Gingrich, who started our nation’s slide into hyperpartisanship and truthiness, was interviewed on NPR on Monday, and essentially he put it out there for normalization: the president-elect is so rich, so incredibly rich, such an unbelievably successful businessman, that we should not expect him to have to follow our federal ethics laws.
::sigh::
Off to the representatives we go:
On Monday, Newt Gingrich said that the president-elect can’t be expected to follow current ethics rules.
Do you agree that the president-elect should be allowed to ignore federal ethics rules?
And again we wait.