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===2022 election=== [[File:Speakers of the House.jpg|thumb|Gingrich with [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives|speakers]] [[Nancy Pelosi]], [[Kevin McCarthy]], [[Paul Ryan]] and [[John Boehner]] in 2023.]] In January 2022, Gingrich told Fox News presenter [[Maria Bartiromo]] that members of the [[United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack|House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol]] faced a real risk of jail after Republicans take over Congress, accusing them of breaking laws without explaining which laws were broken: <blockquote>"I think when you have a Republican Congress, this is all going to come crashing down, ... and the wolves are going to find out that they’re now sheep and they’re the ones who are in fact, I think, face a real risk of jail for the kinds of laws they’re breaking",<ref name="Cillizza-24-1-2022"/></blockquote> which was interpreted by CNN and others as a threat.<ref name="Cillizza-24-1-2022">{{cite news |last1=Cillizza |first1=Chris |title=Newt Gingrich thinks members of the January 6 committee should be threatened with jail time |url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/24/politics/newt-gingrich-jail-time/index.html |access-date=October 3, 2022 |agency=[[CNN]]|date=January 24, 2022}}</ref> In July 2022, he was featured at an [[America First Policy Institute]] conference promoting a "Trump-inspired platform for the 2024 GOP presidential nominee".<ref name="Picket-25-7-22">{{cite news |last1=Picket |first1=Kerry |title=America First think tank's Washington conference offers 2024 policy platform for GOP |url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/jul/25/america-first-think-tanks-washington-conference-of/ |access-date=October 3, 2022 |agency=Washington Times |date=July 25, 2022}}</ref> As of August 2022, Gingrich was advising [[Kevin McCarthy]] and House Republicans for the [[2022 United States elections|2022 midterm elections]], according to journalist [[Dana Milbank]].<ref name=dana-8-9-22>{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/2022/08/09/1116281152/how-the-republican-party-came-to-embrace-conspiracy-theories-and-denialism |title=How the Republican Party came to embrace conspiracy theories and denialism |website=[[NPR]] |date=August 9, 2022 |access-date=October 3, 2022}}</ref>
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