Trump: Newt was wrong and I ‘will always be trying to drain the swamp’
- 7 years ago
On Wednesday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said that Donald Trump and his aides no longer wanted to use the phrase "drain the swamp." Without mentioning Gingrich by name, the president-elect skewered him Thursday morning in a tweet. in an online video posted Thursday, Gingrich said that the statement was "a big boo-boo," adding that Trump assured him in a conversation Thursday that "he intends to drain the swamp."