Did you know Newt Gingrich has a daughter from that doomed first marriage who defends him? At his website? Does it matter? Well, that whole story about him abandoning his cancer-ridden first wife is all wrong.
“My mother and father were already in the process of getting a divorce, which she requested,’’ Ms. Cushman, who was 13 at the time, wrote. “Dad took my sister and me to the hospital to see our mother. She had undergone surgery the day before to remove a tumor. The tumor was benign.’’...NYT
Trouble is, the Times has done some fact re-checking.
On his campaign Web site, under the heading “Answering the Attacks,’’ the Gingrich campaign maintains that it was his first wife, Jackie Battley Gingrich, the mother of the couple’s two daughters, who sought a divorce in 1980.
But documents from the court clerk of Carroll County, Ga., quoted Monday by CNN, indicate that it was Mr. Gingrich who filed for divorce and that his wife asked a judge to block the process because, she wrote, “defendant does not admit that this marriage is irretrievably broken.’’ ..NYT
And later the former Mrs. G. spoke to the Washington Post about it.
In 1985 she told The Washington Post: “He can say that we had been talking about it for 10 years, but the truth is that it came as a complete surprise.’’....NYT
It seems almost unbelievable that a Republican candidate would lie, but there it is. Please try to contain your shock.
