If you were searching for some unvarnished political truth, the terms "Newt Gingrich" and "Fox & Friends" are probably not the first you'd put into the Google machine. Maybe it's because his days in elected office are over, or maybe it's that he did the interview remotely and thus avoided the brain-atrophying influence of The Couch. But whatever it was, Newt Gingrich told Steve Doocy and Co. something they badly needed to hear: that they, as much as anyone else, bear responsibility for ushering in the Age of Trump.

After a brief discussion of which candidate will get the small fortune left behind by Jeb (!) Bush, who was allowed out of the locker in which he was stuffed six months ago on the condition he transfer to a different school, they got down to Trumpian business:

DOOCY: Well they are uncomfortable with Trump, the GOP establishment. You talk to the GOP establishment, I mean, you're part of it for the most part. What—this is their nightmare scenario. What are they trying to do?

GINGRICH: Oh, I think they live in a fantasy land right now. Donald Trump is tapping into something that's real ...

KILMEADE: Well what's interesting is that Mitt Romney, one of his great advantages was money, and that's why a lot of you guys couldn't keep up. This time, the billionaire is spending the least amount of money and running away with this thing—

GINGRICH: Well, that's because of you guys.

KILMEADE: What?

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