Newt Gingrich Baselessly Declares ‘War on the Border’ Financed By ‘American Leftists’

Newt Gingrich appeared on Fox & Friends Monday morning to do what he does best: turn a troubling issue into five-alarm fire with rhetoric typically reserved for the end of times.

Sunday’s clashes between migrants — who threw rocks —  and border patrol agents — who responded with tear gas — have been the lead story on Fox & Friends Monday morning, and Gingrich warned that the chaos isn’t going anywhere.

“This war on the border is real,” Gingrich said. “And what people are trying to do is a psychological war, very often guided, by the way, by American leftists who are activists and American left-wing organizations who are helping finance it.”

“And their goal is to find some way to embarrass the U.S. government so we can’t even control our own border,” the former House Speaker continued. “And we have to be prepared to stand up to that, and to do whatever is necessary.”

“You are either going to have a country and have a border or you are not going to have a country,” he added.

Watch above, via Fox News.

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