Progressive Discussion - Monday 5-22-17

So, Newt Gingrich spreads Conspiracy theories & his wife gets appointed by JA to be Vatican Ambassador. .....Nice Payoff! 😝

"Former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump, is adding fuel to the reinvigorated conspiracy theory that the Democratic National Committee staffer that was slain last year ― not Russia ― was behind a transfer of DNC emails to WikiLeaks. 
During a Sunday morning appearance on Fox News, Gingrich tried to deflect attention from the scrutiny over the Trump campaign’s alleged ties to Russia by pointing to the still-unsolved death of Seth Rich. The 25-year-old DNC staffer was killed last July while walking home from a bar late at night in what police have characterized as a robbery gone wrong. 
“We have this very strange story now of this young man who worked for the Democratic Committee, who apparently was assassinated at four in the morning, having given WikiLeaks something like 53,000 emails and 17,000 attachments,” Gingrich said. 
The Fox and Friends hosts failed to refute any of Gingrich’s claims, and neither they nor Gingrich noted that the claims have recently unraveled when the story’s main source backtracked on his statements, calling them a “misunderstanding.”  ....... Huff Post