Former Congressman Newt Gingrich (R-GA) was hammered on Saturday night for attacking Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) on Twitter, saying the Black lawmaker is participating in a "lynch mob" out to get controversial Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).
Gingrich, a regular contributor to Fox News used the highly charged language in a tweet that read, "AOC (152,661 votes) and Maxine Waters (152,272 votes) are part of lynch mob trying to destroy Congresswoman Marjorie Greene (229,827 votes).they should calm down and read the history of John Wilkes in the 1770s and the principle that the people's vote matters more than parliament."
It did not go unnoticed that former Georgia politician cited only two women of color in his attack in his defense of the white Taylor Greene, which led to a furious backlash as you can see below:
@newtgingrich A historian claiming women of color are lynching a white woman is [chef’s kiss].— Seth Masket (@Seth Masket) 1612061895.0
@newtgingrich Wow, weird to see you use lynch mob in a bad way— Giantsecretspacehat (@Giantsecretspacehat) 1612066103.0
@newtgingrich You called an African American woman and a Latina a *lynch mob*. You really did that. Right out in the open.— Do They Give Pulitzers For Procrastination? (@Do They Give Pulitzers For Procrastination?) 1612061164.0
@Political_spoon @newtgingrich Maybe he's thinking of trading Callista in for Marjorie— Covidiocracy (@Covidiocracy) 1612058427.0
@newtgingrich Cmon Newt. You’re better than this.— Michael Allers Jr. (@Michael Allers Jr.) 1612059237.0
@newtgingrich A "lynch mob" tries to destroy people for who they are. People who want Greene out of congress just d… https://t.co/8KkrjJf9tB— Craig Good (@Craig Good) 1612058507.0
@newtgingrich Hey Racist Gingrich, relating people of color to a lynch mob ONLY makes you look & sound ridiculous,… https://t.co/hSQVtMDZdO— That_A_Boy (@That_A_Boy) 1612063765.0
Your reminder that conservatives will appropriate any term (in this case lynch mob) to advance their own self -abso… https://t.co/w6NXXi5Sqp— Tadhg (@Tadhg) 1612058496.0
@newtgingrich It takes a truly, uh, "upstanding" citizen like Newt Gingrich to refer to a black woman like Maxine W… https://t.co/uN9R7necE0— Lobo (@Lobo) 1612070870.0
@newtgingrich Lynch mob = insurrectionists. Lynch mob = the GOP that refuses to acknowledge Biden won the election… https://t.co/Iedk1ELJsn— Exploding Tree Singh,MD 🌊 (@Exploding Tree Singh,MD 🌊) 1612068628.0
@yashar Does he even know what a "lynch mob" is? Has he ever seen one? Everyone in he congress and senate has; Newt… https://t.co/RmvBmwmjBd— Dave Kelly beheld (@Dave Kelly beheld) 1612061722.0
@AyannaPressley Gingrich would blend seamlessly in a historical lynch mob. Yet he attempts the Freudian gambit to p… https://t.co/0RLYmQdMIY— Keith Williams (@Keith Williams) 1612068280.0
@newtgingrich A Republican warning about the dangers of lynch mobs. Irony, meet Newt Gingrich. https://t.co/4GT35iWIjy— jkatiforis (@jkatiforis) 1612053788.0
@alexnazaryan It’s apparently Newt’s favorite phrase when defending his friends. Gingrich on Roy Moore: Amazing ho… https://t.co/hF7LG6vWFX— Jon Adams (@Jon Adams) 1612057766.0
@newtgingrich You GOP people love to use the term "lynch". Amazing how you all have that as part of your everyday vocabulary. Says so much.— Lana DaFree (@Lana DaFree) 1612060525.0
