Gingrich Super PAC Releases Film Trailer About Romney
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AFP/Getty Images(MANCHESTER, N.H.) — A super PAC supporting Newt Gingrich, Winning Our Future, released on Sunday the trailer to its 27-minute movie, When Mitt Romney Came to Town, described on the PAC’s website as “one raider and his firm” and how they “destroyed” the American dream for “thousands of Americans and their families — Mitt Romney and Bain Capital.”
The film’s trailer says it will show four businesses destroyed by Bain Capital.
In the trailer, Romney is called a “predatory corporate raider” and a “scavenger.”
“Think you know Mitt? Think again,” the teaser says.
“Their greed was only matched by their willingness to make millions in profits. Nothing spared, nothing mattered but greed,” the trailer says. “Mitt Romney became CEO the day Bain Capital was formed. His mission? To reap massive rewards for himself and his investors.”
When asked about the new film on Sunday in the NBC News debate, Gingrich said he has not seen it.
“Well, I think you have to look at the film, which I haven’t seen. But if you look at The New York Times article, and I think it was on Thursday — you would certainly have to say that Bain, at times, engaged in behavior where they looted a company, leaving behind 1,700 unemployed people,” Gingrich said. “That’s The New York Times. That’s not me.”
He said last month in Iowa if a super PAC supporting him released something negative, he would ask people to not support them and he would “disown them.”
On Sunday, his attitude toward super PACs changed, when Gingrich said the ads only needed to be factual.
“So instead, I agree with [Romney]. It takes broad shoulders to run. Can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen. When the 27 and a half minute movie comes out, I hope it’s accurate. I can say, publicly, I hope that the super PAC runs an accurate movie about Bain,” Gingrich said. “And then people can watch the 27 and a half minutes of his career at Bain and decide for themselves.”
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