Newt Gingrich

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President Trump said “I am greeted with a hostile press, the likes of which no President has ever seen. The closest would be that gentleman right up there. They always said, Lincoln, nobody had got treated worse than Lincoln. I believe I am treated worse.” — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 4, 2020 Hibernated

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President Trump was right sunday night when he said he got worse press than President Abraham Lincoln. It is true, as historian Alan Guelzo has pointed out, that southern slaveholding newspapers hated him with vitriol worthy of CNN or MSNBC. However Northern papers were divided — PolitiTweet.org

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In a way the reaction to that quote made President Trump’s point. People who know nothing of the election of 1864 just knew Trump had to be wrong—some even ridiculed him. Yet the irony is he is right. Consider the press in 2020 and 1864. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 4, 2020 Hibernated