newt gingrich also blasted the <u+201c>elite media,<u+201d> which he said <u+201c>really shouldn<u+2019>t be considered news media<u+201d> because they<u+2019>re propaganda. by nolan d. mccaskill 10/18/16 07:39 am edt hillary clinton<u+2019>s family foundation and presidential bid are cloaked to hide a massive <u+201c>criminal enterprise,<u+201d> former house speaker newt gingrich suggested late monday. <u+201c>this is a giant criminal enterprise disguised as a foundation and disguised as a campaign,<u+201d> gingrich, a top donald trump surrogate, told fellow trump supporter sean hannity during a fox news interview. story continued below gingrich highlighted a center for public integrity report that found more than 96 percent of donations from journalists, reporters, editors, anchors and others working in journalism benefited clinton over trump. according to the center's analysis, those figures have donated about $382,000 to clinton, while only $14,000 has been given to trump<u+2019>s bid. <u+201c>so that means among the news media, the ratio was 24 to 1 in favor of hillary clinton,<u+201d> gingrich said. <u+201c>now, of course, they wouldn<u+2019>t suggest that they<u+2019>re biased. but 24 to 1, which by the way is about the same number as the amount of minutes dedicated friday a week ago between the trump 11-year-old tape and wikileaks. it was 23 minutes on trump and 57 seconds in all three networks combined on wikileaks.<u+201d> gingrich was referring to a 2005 <u+201c>access hollywood<u+201d> tape in which trump was heard talking cavalierly about forcibly kissing and groping women with impunity because of his celebrity, as well as a hack of clinton campaign chairman john podesta<u+2019>s personal email account, which has given insight into the inner workings of clinton<u+2019>s campaign. he went on to blast the <u+201c>elite media,<u+201d> which he said <u+201c>really shouldn<u+2019>t be considered news media<u+201d> because they<u+2019>re propaganda. he even recommended that columbia<u+2019>s journalism school rename itself the <u+201c>columbia school of propaganda.<u+201d> <u+201c>because these people aren<u+2019>t engaged in news,<u+201d> he argued. <u+201c>they are methodical propagandists for the left, smothering negative information about hillary and maximizing negative information about trump in a way that is a huge disservice to the united states of america and to the people of the united states.<u+201d> gingrich<u+2019>s claim plays into the message trump himself has begun to push: that the presidential election is <u+201c>rigged<u+201d> because the media are colluding with the clinton campaign to keep trump out of the white house. by bill scher by thomas wright by joshua zeitz by jack shafer
gingrich: clinton<u+2019>s campaign <u+2018>a giant criminal enterprise<u+2019> - politico
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