Although Newt Gingrich intended to give a lecture about his career as an author of historical novels Tuesday, audience members quickly asked the Republican about his political stances, including his support of the conservative effort to oust the three state Supreme Court justices.
“I think judges are vastly too powerful today,” Gingrich said. He further explained, “We have federal judges today who are routinely behaving as if they are commander in chief … They are making it much harder to defend America.”
The audience applauded.
Then a young man asked Gingrich to comment on the notion 9/11 was an inside job.
“Yeah, I don’t believe it,” Gingrich said to immediate applause from a supportive audience in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union.
He also was asked about whether Gingrich supported a theocracy, leading the former Speaker of the House to point at the Declaration of Independence as evidence the founders held that powers came from the people, who were endowed by a creator. He wrote a book about that subject in 2006, titled “Rediscovering God in America: Reflections on the Role of Faith in Our Nation’s History and Future.”
Read the full story at the Iowa State Daily News.
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