What Twitter Did With Newt Gingrich's 'Drain the Swamp' Apology

"I goofed."

In an interview yesterday on NPR’s Morning Edition, Newt Gingrich said that Donald Trump‘s promise to “drain the swamp,” was a nice idea for a campaign promise, but not one the administration intends to keep. “I’m told he now just disclaims that,” Gingrich told Rachel Martin. “He now says it was cute, but he doesn’t want to use it anymore,” explaining “he’s in a different role now and maybe he feels that as president, as the next president of the United States, that he should be marginally more dignified than talking about alligators in swamps.”

Ultimately, Gingrich told Martin, “he is my leader and if he decides to drop the swamp and the alligator, I will drop the swamp and the alligator.”

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