Newt, Trump’s inconvenient truth-teller

He has dismissed a Trump business decision as “weird.” He openly fretted that the Trump team might “lose their nerve.” And he likened Donald Trump to an aggressive bear from the movie “The Revenant”: if provoked, “he will walk over, bite your face off, and sit on you.”…

Gingrich, an informal adviser to Trump who says he speaks with the president-elect about once a week, has emerged as one of the few surrogates openly willing to flout the Trump transition party line — even when it ends up getting him in trouble. But being able to speak unconstrained, both to and about the incoming administration, is an essential part of Gingrich’s role as he sees it, he said in a recent interview.

“I’m a private citizen, that’s the whole point,” he said, when asked why he feels empowered to speak so freely. “If they decide I’m right, they will do it because they think it’s right.”