Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” when asked if Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein should recuse himself from the Russian collusion investigation, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said no because this is all a “legalistic nightmare” designed  “to block the Trump presidency.”

Gingrich said, “No. I think this whole game of recusal is a nightmare. You have this legalistic nightmare trying to block the Trump presidency on behalf of a department in which 97 percent of the money was given to Hillary. You want me to believe this is all just random behavior. As a historian, I don’t believe it.”

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