Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich warned Monday night on FOX News not to underestimate how "deliberately these people are committed to doing whatever it takes" following the FBI raid of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago property. "I think what's even more troubling and what every American, whether you're a Democrat, Republican, doesn't matter, liberal, conservative, doesn't matter. If 30 FBI agents can take over the house of a former President of the United States and probable candidate for president, what can they do to you?" Gingrich asked. "The purpose of it is simple," he said. "They want to control you. These rates, the senior talked about earlier taking people off an airplane in chains, having a guy standing outside at three in the morning is his -- in his pajamas, these things are all designed to intimidate." "They authorized something which has never ever happened in American history," Gingrich said. "In the idea that they innocently -- oh, we didn't realize there would be 30 FBI agents, we didn't realize that it would look back, we really feel sorry. I'm sick of it, Sean. These people are bad people doing bad things, and it's time we said that and we meant it and we went out and won the election." "I think we have to focus all of our energy on defeating the people who defend destroying the constitution," Gingrich added. <blockquote>GINGRICH: There's clearly a double standard. But I think what's even more troubling and what every American, whether you're a Democrat, Republican, doesn't matter, liberal conservative, doesn't matter. If 30 FBI agents can take over the house of a former President of the United States and probable candidate for president, what can I do to you? And when you look at the Democrats who are trying to add 85,000 IRS agents to the already existing 77,000, that would mean 162,000 IRS agents compared, for example, to 29,000 people that we have on the border trying to control the border. But the purpose of it is simple. They want to control you. These rates, the senior talked about earlier taking people off an airplane in chains, having a guy standing outside at three in the morning is his -- in his pajamas, these things are all designed to intimidate. If this government and get away with third-world tactics worthy of Venezuela, with the East German or Zimbabwe, if that's the future, then the constitution as a working document has ceased to exist. And I think part of the answer has to be to say to everybody was going to get very upset, fine, go beat them at the polls in November. The answer to this is get a Republican house, a Republican senate, and let's rip the corruption, not just in the FBI, but across the whole system. That's worth the corruption out, but I have to tell you, I couldn't believe it when I first heard today that 30 FBI agents had invaded Mar-a-Lago when it was totally unnecessary. And it's clearly an effort designed I think par to go to President Trump in the hopes that will do something that will further validate the left's fantasy about the kind of guy he is. The fact is he did nothing wrong, he's cooperated, and for his trouble -- and you just heard Eric say this, the Trump family has been persecuted more than any presidential family and history. And I just want to repeat, if they can do this to a farmer and potentially future president, what can they do to you or your cousin or your friends or your neighbors? And I think it's a very scary step towards a police state eliminating the constitution as a real document. ... Remember we had a whole IRS scandal under Obama where they were targeting specific people. Do not underestimate how deliberately these people are committed to doing whatever it takes, including destroying the constitution, in order to retain power, and that's going to be a major issue between now and the election this fall. They authorized something which has never ever happened in American history. In the idea that they innocently -- oh, we didn't realize there would be 30 FBI agents, we didn't realize that it would look back, we really feel sorry. I'm sick of it, Sean. These people are bad people doing bad things, and it's time we said that and we meant it and we went out and won the election. I think we have to focus all of our energy on defeating the people who defend destroying the constitution. </blockquote>