Appearing on 'Fox & Friends' Friday morning, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich characterized the Clintons as "grifters" who "steal from everybody."



"The only way to describe them is—they’re grifters. These are people that show up in movies and lie to everybody, steal from everybody—if you think of them as grifters you sort of get it," Gingrich said. "Here is a pile of money -- Why not take it? Oh, it happens to be illegal. Well, nobody will notice, and fi they do notice, that's why we have lawyers. We'll simply lie about it."



"In a normal, healthy society, they would be ostracized for being such totally unpatriotic scammers, who go around abusing public trust, using public money, and then lying about it pathetically. And instead we all just get numb to it -- it is an astonishing thing to live through."



About President Obama, Gingrich said: "Obama has lied for his entire presidency about everything from Obamacare to the Iranian deal. Why would he notice Bill and Hillary lying? You cannot be a modern liberal and tell the truth, as you saw a few minutes ago int he vice presidential nominee [Tim Kaine] who can't even tell the truth about Hillary's failure to hold press conferences."



"They have a belief that if you look in the camera and lie consistently, that the lies will eventually seem true."



Donald Trump has "thoughtfully decided to gamble on people being sick of corruption, sick of dishonesty, and sick of 'poopy-talk' if you will," Gingrich said. "I think that he is trying to give you something much more genuine, much more authentic."