“I was part of (the late Rep.) Jack Kemp’s little cabal of supply-siders who, largely by helping convince (President Ronald) Reagan and then working with Reagan, profoundly changed the entire trajectory of the American economy in the nineteen-eighties,” Gingrich said. “You could make the argument that I helped Mitt Romney get rich because I helped pass the legislation.”

CNBC host Larry Kudlow asked if Gingrich had ever made that argument before, prompting the White House hopeful to say: “I am as of right this minute, it just occurred to me.”