Former Speaker Newt Gingrich warned on Friday that the threat of radical Islam has crept into U.S. society through soft money funding the nation’s universities, think tanks and political commentators.
In the first speech of the day at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday, Gingrich urged Congress to hold hearings on the threat of radical Islam, and to expand its focus beyond violent jihadis.
“Some of our greatest universities now accept millions from dictators whose values are fundamentally alien to us…people who show up on talk shows, do they tell you who's paying them?” Gingrich said.
The former Speaker strongly implied that the Clintons have been improperly influenced by large donors from the Middle East contributing to their foundation.
“I’m very uncomfortable…they sit in a room with a dictator to get $10 or 15 million and we have no idea what they discussed,” Gingrich said. “It shouldn’t shock anybody, Bill for one of his first acts, raised money from Saudis for an Arkansas school.”
“The Clinton foundation is going to have to say in actual dollars every foreign money they’ve gotten, period,” he continued. “That includes travel, yachts, mansion…all of it ought to be public and we ought to know about it.”
Gingrich blasted President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry
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“The president and Secretary of State have no concept what planet their on and no idea what universe they’re in,” Gingrich said. “When Joe Biden
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“This is a matter of national security,” Gingrich said. “This is not an issue just of politics, it raises a very core question about the ability of foreigners to put cash into the U.S. for the purpose of reshaping public policy.”
