“I come out of the Theodore Roosevelt LaFollette progressive tradition.” - Newt Gingrich
That was quite the little con you pulled there.
You not only did not give the context, but you cut off the last two words of that sentence and even added a period, to make it something it wasn’t.
PHD history professor Gingrich was talking about corruption and reform.
“I’ve always said I came out of the Theodore Roosevelt-LaFollette progressive tradition of reform,” Gingrich told CSPAN. “I always knew that if you’re dealing with genuine corruption, people will come after you.”
He added that “in every campaign against me that they did, they tried, when people actually looked at the evidence, they concluded in the end that I hadn’t done anything.”