Newt Gingrich is a deadbeat with a $4.3 million debt--he doesn't care

[applegrove]

Newt Gingrich is a deadbeat with a $4.3 million debt—he doesn’t care

Rebekah Sager

Daily Kos Staff

2021/10/14 · 09:16

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/14/2057853/-Deadbeat-Gingrich-owes-millions-according-to-latest-FCC-reporting-but-he-s-still-living-it-up

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"SNIP.......

What is up with Republicans refusing to pay back their debts? We know Trump owes everybody money—possibly more than $1 billion—according to Forbes, but before Trump, there’s an old-school cheater, one whose debts go back a decade.

One-time GOP Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich currently owes more than $4.6 million in unpaid bills thanks to those small firms that helped him run and supported his failed 2012 presidential campaign. That number has stayed exactly the same for the last nine years. 

Monday, Gingrich’s “Newt 2012” committee filed its latest quarterly report with the Federal Election Commission. The 46-page document outlines how much Gingrich owes ($4,631,534.55, to be exact), and if I were him, I wouldn’t be bragging all over Twitter about fancy dinners and days out on the golf course with my wife. I’d be out there trying to find a j-o-b. But, hey, I’m a Black American—I’d be “under the jail,” as my dad used to say, if I didn’t pay my debts.

In 2012, HuffPost asked one of Gingrich’s vendors about the money he owed them. 

“We got burned,” the Las Vegas graphics company owner said then.

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[niyad]

1. Cheats on his wives. Cheats on his bills. Cheats on his taxes? Cheats his constituents.

Cheats America.

[dflprincess]

9. It's the Republican way! nt

[elleng]

2. Step by Step, no rule or law applies to them.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

3. Sociopaths

Never take responsibility for anything. They have to be forced to.

The consequences of not paying his bills has to become more painful than paying them off.

Only than will that pig pay the people he stiffed.

[smb]

4. The Apprentice Has Learned Well From The Orange Master nt

[Omnipresent]

5. Republicans are excellent at finding distractions to deadbeats like Newt.

It’s easy for them to spot “the low hanging fruit” for complaining. All they have to do is drive down the street and look for panhandlers.

What a bunch of dumbass, re-tards, they really are!

[Celerity]

6. piece of dogshit

Link to tweet

[Bluethroughu]

11. They are a Halloween creep out.

They ooze something indescribable, and scary.

[tonekat]

16. Ah yes he and the prematurely embalmed

Mrs. Gingrinch.

I liked that place when I lived in NoVA, sorry to see his evil presence there. He also soils a decent Indian place in McLean.

[dchill]

25. What a couple of sweathearts.

[hunter]

7. They call it "debt" to hide the fact he's bought.

Same as Trump.

These were never loans. They were bribes.

Only the most naive of these "lenders," if any, were actual marks of these grifters.

[Me.]

8. I Wonder How Long It Will Take BeFor Businesses Demand All Services Be Paid Up Front

when dealing with Cons?

[Jerry2144]

10. Oh my! This is so surprising!

There. Do I sound sincere?

Why does this have the “Duh, and water is wet” feel?

[applegrove]

12. It goes to the corruption of the whole modern Republican Party and how Trump

has opened the gates to bad behavior in public, which rots the whole system.

[Escurumbele]

13. That is why I cringe every time I hear "The Rule of Law", and "No one is above the Law"

Bullshit!

[Celerity]

17. +100000

Two of the core American mass traction lies.

[JI7]

20. When they say things like that they are mostly referring to Black and Brown people

[madeup64]

22. Yep

It's okay when white people do it but not when non whites do.

See also Trayvon Martin (his crime apparently was wearing a hoodie), George Floyd, etc etc versus January 6th seditionists.

No issue with Trump supporters giving people covid but the minute they could blame brown people it was an issue.

I remember either during his campaign or early in his presidency (if that's what you can call it) and Trump tweeting about the girl in San Francisco getting allegedly shot and killed by an undocumented immigrant. If I remember right he was found not guilty. Compare that to that little asshat who murdered people in Kenosha.

The list goes on and on.

[BigmanPigman]

14. They're all cut from the same

hypocritical cloth. Classic GOP crook.

[Roy Rolling]

15. Some isn't debt

It isn’t a debt expected to be paid back. A big donor does $100,000 of work for the campaign—far above legal limits—then never gets paid.

The campaign really gets a $100,000 donation, far above donor limits.

[North Shore Chicago]

18. Newt

lost a bit of weight, a shame if he were ill. Damn, I don't mean that, but with so much rich French cuisine.....one would think he'd be rounder.

[DFW]

19. From the Republican handbook

Never owe hundreds. Then they will come after you with everything they've got.

Owe millions, and they'll write about you as a "wily financier, who left confusion in his wake."

How old is Gingrich now? 78? And he looks none too healthy. What are they going to do to him, cancel his subscription to People magazine?

It's the old rule: Steal $100 and you're a criminal. Steal $100 million, and you're a hero.

[packman]

21. Of all the Repuke sleazeballs out there

He is in the top 5 on my long list of Repuke sleazeballs

[Botany]

23. Newt has a long history of being a dick

My late father who was a professor had a long time
friend who was @ W. Georgia and they fired Newt's ass the 1st chance they had. He wanted to set up a his own semi private company to sell "his brilliance" when he published a paper in his field of study to which the college President told Newt that is what ALL professors do i.e. publish their work and Newt was not allowed to "double dip" and as soon as they could they fired him.


Btw Newt helped to make American politics toxic and he was run out of Congress on a rail and the Congressional gop was more then willing to help.

[ProfessorGAC]

26. The Congressional GOP Was Willing To Help?

You kidding?
Dems had essentially nothing to do with sending Gingrich packing.
The Rs didn't help! They did it!
He was run out of town by his own party!!!
I know what you meant, but I didn't think you were strong enough at how much his own people loathed him.

[sarcasmo]

24. Did Newt run up his Tiffany's credit for a second time?

[muriel_volestrangler]

27. If they had an ounce of integrity, some of the many Republican Super PACs would pay these debts

since they claim to support small businesses. Collectively, what they're sitting on is orders of magnitude larger than $4 million.

That they don't pay such debts incurred "for the Republican party" shows they have zero integrity.

[budkin]

28. He helped ruin America for decades

He is literally the reason I started paying attention to politics and became a Democrat.