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Trump VP Contender Newt Gingrich Profited From Sending Cancer “Cure” Emails
another con man....
Newt Gingrich, a Fox News contributor and reported leading contender to be Donald Trump’s running mate, has spammed his email list subscribers with sponsored emails claiming that “cancer was cured back in 1925” and the “actual cure” can be found through a subscription newsletter.
The people behind the Gingrich-sent emails have been criticized as pulling off “an unbelievable, immoral con job,” skirting “the line between spammy and scammy,” and using people’s “faith as a way to sell them bullshit ‘miracle’ cancer cures and nutritional supplements.”
Similar cancer “cure” emails were an issue during the Republican presidential primary when then-candidate Mike Huckabee was criticized for sending out sponsored emails from the same company, Health Revelations.
Gingrich served as House speaker during the 1990s and was “the first speaker of the House to be punished by the House for ethics violations,” according to CNN.com. His media work has crossed multiple ethical boundaries, including by posing conflicts of interest.
The people behind the Gingrich-sent emails have been criticized as pulling off “an unbelievable, immoral con job,” skirting “the line between spammy and scammy,” and using people’s “faith as a way to sell them bullshit ‘miracle’ cancer cures and nutritional supplements.”
Similar cancer “cure” emails were an issue during the Republican presidential primary when then-candidate Mike Huckabee was criticized for sending out sponsored emails from the same company, Health Revelations.
Gingrich served as House speaker during the 1990s and was “the first speaker of the House to be punished by the House for ethics violations,” according to CNN.com. His media work has crossed multiple ethical boundaries, including by posing conflicts of interest.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/07/06/trump-vp-contender-newt-gingrich-profited-sending-cancer-cure-emails/211374
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