• ThrowawayOnLemmy
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    Wasn’t one of his wives dying of cancer at the time he was cheating on her?

    • @dhork
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      Yup. According to Wikipedia:

      According to L. H. Carter, Gingrich’s campaign treasurer, Gingrich said of Jackie: “She’s not young enough or pretty enough to be the wife of the President. And besides, she has cancer.”[269][270] Newt has denied saying it.[266]

      That was his first wife he cheated on. But his second wife got the same treatment:

      Gingrich filed for divorce from Marianne in 1999, a few months after she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.[280]

      He met his current wife because she was a House staffer, and carried on another affair while impeaching Bill Clinton over… well. you know. That marriage has lasted 20+ years.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich

      Isn’t it always the case that the most vocal people about moral issues are also the ones with the longest “Personal Life” section on Wikipedia?

      • @[email protected]
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        As a man that stuck with a partner after they got diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Fuck newt gingrich