I’m going to make the wild guess that Newt has smashed all records for a pol trading on his influence to make a fortune for himself.
Yes, it was after he left office, which is when most pols and their aides cash in.
No, he was apparently not a lobbyist so registered with Congress.
But it sure sounds like Freddie and the others were paying him millions of dollars for at least his using his knowledge to help them to lobby more effectively and also to buy his public advocacy for positions and policies favorable to them, whether in the mortgage, health or energy fields, among those sectors we are aware of.
It may help to explain his soulless and often big-government oriented, non-conservative positions over the years. Certainly it is information that should come to light during these early stages of the vetting process.
Al Gore beats him by about a billion, but I'd rather have Herman Cain. Newth has advocated both sides of issues and is not as conservative as he claims in the primaries.
“No, he was apparently not a lobbyist so registered with Congress.”
Above renders the rest of what you say irrelevant. The explicit claim of the story is Gingrich acted as a lobbyist and there is not a shred of evidence to prove this. It’s a hit piece pure and simple and you fell for it because it’s what you want to believe.
Come on. It was all for his perspective as a historian, it had nothing to do with him being the former Speaker of the House.