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How Gingrich Became Trump’s Inside Man

July 7, 2016 · 11:53 am ET · Leave a Comment

“When Republican naysayers were mocking Donald Trump’s improbable White House campaign before the primaries started, Newt Gingrich was reading Trump: The Art of the Deal,” CNN reports.

“It was a pivotal part of Gingrich’s introduction to Trump — and the beginning of an almost scholarly undertaking to understand the making of the man who would go on to seize his party’s nomination for president. Months later, as the GOP prepares to coronate Trump at its convention, the former House Speaker has emerged one of Trump’s most high-profile supporters and even secured himself a top spot on the billionaire’s vice presidential shortlist.”

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