Trump's Vatican Ambassador Nominee Callista Gingrich Hawked Biblical Cancer 'Cure'
Gingrich Productions also rents out its email list, which reportedly has 250,000 subscribers and was used by the Trump campaign during the election
U.S. President Donald Trump announced last week that he will nominate the wife of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich as his ambassador to the Vatican.
Callista Gingrich has been the president and CEO of Gingrich Productions, a multimedia production and consulting company in Arlington, Virginia, since 2007.
She previously worked as a congressional aide in the House of Representatives and is president of The Gingrich Foundation, a charity organization.
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Her media production company has come under fire for sending sponsored emails claiming that “cancer was cured back in 1925” and such cures can be found in the Bible.
Gingrich Productions also rents out its email list, which reportedly has 250,000 subscribers and was used by the Trump campaign during the election, according the Media Matters for America.
She is Newt Gingrich's third wife and he converted to Catholicism to marry her.
Ambassadors require Senate confirmation before assuming the role.