Former House speaker Newt Gingrich says, “Tragically I think the attacks [in Brussels] in many ways validated Donald Trump’s entire candidacy.”

In an interview Wednesday with Fox Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo on “Mornings with Maria,” Gingrich said that Trump “reports the obvious, everybody else thinks he is stupid because he is the only guy saying it now here we are several months later going in and the fact is Donald Trump was right. Hillary Clinton was totally wrong. And it makes you question her connectivity to the real world.”

“You have Hillary Clinton…saying, ‘Oh, we should not have leaders who tell us to be afraid.’ Well, how do you watch Brussels and not have some sense of fear,” Gingrich said.

Continuing his argument, “I think [Clinton] sounds almost like she’s in a fantasy world that doesn’t connect to reality.”

[dcquiz] While acknowledging that there are “a lot of things with Trump that I can find fault with,” Gingrich said that one of Trump’s “strengths” is his ability to “read the obvious.”

Adding that Trump is “a little bit like Reagan in that sense,” Trump “looked out, saw what was happening. He knew that the people who perpetrated Paris atrocities, many had come from Brussels, he knew that the Maelbeek area of Brussels in fact, had been heavily infiltrated by terrorists.”

Trump “has business friends who go to and from European Union and Brussels and his business friends are saying to him, ‘It is out of control,'” Gingrich said.

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