Jack Abramoff: I Never Liked Newt Gingrich

Jack Abramoff: I Never Liked Newt Gingrich

Jack Abramoff: I Never Liked Newt Gingrich

Abramoff made a lot of powerful friends during his days peddling influence in DC, but he never took a shining to Newt.

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Abramoff made a lot of powerful friends during his days peddling influence in DC, but he never took a shine to Newt.

Former lobbyist and convicted felon Jack Abramoff made a lot of powerful friends during his days peddling influence in Washington, DC—from Ralph Reed to Grover Norquist—but he never took a shining to Newt Gingrich. In this Nation Conversation podcast, Abramoff gives just a few examples of Gingrich’s very unique style of legislating.

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