Roger Stone On Potential Trump VP Newt Gingrich: “Pillsbury Doughboy,” Adulterer, Horndog

Stone Wondered If Gingrich Promised Herman Cain “White Tang” And If They Would “Double Team” Michele Bachmann

Written by Eric Hananoki

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Donald Trump ally Roger Stone is pushing for Newt Gingrich to be included on Trump’s vice presidential “short list,” calling him “a revolutionary” and “enormously helpful.” Stone’s praise for Gingrich contradicts his many statements slamming the former House Speaker as an adulterer, someone who should be kicked out of the Republican Party, and a “Fatso” who is too overweight to be president. Stone also wrote bizarre tweets imagining “horndorg” (sic) Gingrich promising former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain “all the white tang he can tag” and Gingrich and Cain trying to “double team Michelle [sic] Bachmann.”

Stone and Trump are longtime friends and associates and talk on a “semi-regular basis.” Stone introduced and recommended top Trump campaign aide Paul Manafort to the candidate. Trump also recently hired pollster Tony Fabrizio, who has a decades-long friendship with Stone (Stone enthusiastically endorsed the move on his Twitter account).

Stone’s rhetoric is full of falsehoods and contradictions. He is now complimenting Sen. Bernie Sanders and trying to pull his voters to Trump’s side despite previously calling for Sanders’ execution.

As The Huffington Post noted, Gingrich “has been lately going out of his way to signal interest in the job and his overall ardor for The Donald.” Gingrich, currently a Fox News contributor, said on Fox News Sunday that he’d “be very hard-pressed not to say `yes’” if Trump asked him to join the ticket.  

Stone recently told National Review that Gingrich should be on Trump’s VP short list, saying that “Newt is a revolutionary” and “loves public service”:

These days, any Trump World speculation is incomplete without comments from Roger Stone — Trump’s high-profile, long-time, on-again-off-again unofficial consigliere who was called “Donald Trump’s Donald Trump” in a recent Politico interview. When I asked Stone about a Trump-Gingrich ticket he said, “Newt has been enormously helpful defending Trump against the establishment” and that he “should be on Trump’s short list.” Most tellingly, Stone told me that “Newt is a revolutionary, and Trump is leading a revolution.”

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Roger Stone told me that “Gingrich is a man who loves public service.” And I say, at age 73, he has everything to gain and nothing to lose — except maybe his Fox News contract. Even if a Trump-Gingrich ticket were to lose, Newt’s media profile would have been substantially raised and he could cash in with new television contracts, as an author, and on the speaking circuit.

Those nice words contrast sharply with what Stone tweeted about Gingrich in the past. 

Stone previously called Gingrich “Fatso” and “Pillsbury Doughboy” and said “people don’t vote for fat candidates” like Gingrich. He also repeatedly called Gingrich an adulterer, described him as so white he “thinks Wonder Bread is soulfood,” and encouraged the Republican Party to “get rid” of him.