Newt Gingrich Website Adds Section Answering Attacks Against Him

Newt Gingrich’s website has added a section that takes possible attacks against him head-on. It lists many of the attacks already being used against him, or ones that will likely be brought up by the opposition as his campaign moves forward.

One of the most prevalent is the attack on his personal life, where Gingrich has admitted having had extramarital affairs years ago. Gingrich has said he has sought forgiveness from God and is now happily married to his wife, Callista. His website has the following entry on this issue:

Asking Wife For Divorce While She Was In The Hospital Dying of Cancer

This story is a vicious lie. It was first reported by a left wing magazine in the 1980s based on heresay and has survived in left-wing chat rooms on the Internet until today. It is completely false.

Recently, Newt’s daughter, Jackie Gingrich Cushman, wrote a column to set the record straight about this smear. The column reveals that 1) It was her mother that requested the divorce, not Newt, and it was months before the hospital visit in question; 2) Her mother was in the hospital to remove a tumor, but it was benign, and she is still alive today; 3) Newt visited the hospital for the purpose of taking his two children to see their mother, not to discuss a divorce. You can read it here.

NOTE: Even the Washington Post has debunked the myth that Gingrich asked his wife for a divorce on her death bed. In actuality, it was Gingrich’s first wife who had requested the divorce, and she is still alive.