Former Speaker Newt Gingrich argued Wednesday that the terror attacks in Brussels “in many ways” validate the “entire candidacy” of Donald Trump.
The 2012 presidential candidate told Fox Business that one of Trump’s greatest qualities is his ability to “read the obvious,” adding that Hillary Clinton has a problem with her “connectivity to the real world” after her comments on the attack.
“Well, tragically, I think that the attacks in many ways validated Donald Trump’s entire candidacy,” he told host Maria Bartiromo. “You have Hillary Clinton … saying, ‘Oh, we shouldn’t be — we shouldn’t have leaders who tell us to be afraid.’ Well how do you watch Brussels and not have some sense of fear? I think she sounds almost like she’s in a fantasy world that doesn’t connect to reality.”
“One of his strengths is to read the obvious. He’s a bit like [Ronald] Reagan in that sense,” Gingrich continued. “He looked out, he saw that many of the people who perpetrated the Paris atrocities, many of them had come from Brussels.
“He has business friends who go to and from the European Union in Brussels, and his business friends are saying to him, ‘It’s out of control.’ So [Trump] reports the obvious, everybody else thinks he’s stupid because he’s the only one saying it,” Gingrich said. “The fact is, Donald Trump was right. Hillary Clinton was totally wrong, and it makes you question her connectivity to the real world.”
The former speaker’s comments come a day after 34 died and more than 200 were injured after attacks on the Brussels airport and the Maelbeek metro station downtown.
