Trump allies gang up on Gowdy

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Rep. Trey Gowdy has been a pitbull investigator for Republicans for years. Now, he’s is in President Donald Trump’s doghouse for daring to challenge the president’s unsupported claim that Democrats and their sympathizers in the FBI embedded a spy in his 2016 campaign.

Trump allies have been pummeling Gowdy in recent days, branding him a gullible or clueless backer of the intelligence community. Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, labeled him “uninformed.” Another Trump-tied attorney, Victoria Toensing, said Gowdy “doesn’t know diddly-squat” about the particulars of federal investigations. And Fox News host Lou Dobbs tagged him a “RINO” — a term for a fake Republican.

It’s the latest twist in Gowdy’s enigmatic tenure in Congress. Once a conservative hero for his headline-grabbing inquisitions of the Obama administration — over the “Fast and Furious” gun-running program and alleged IRS targeting of conservatives, as well as his highly charged Benghazi probe — Gowdy has also bedeviled partisans by sometimes refusing to toe a pro-Trump line. At times, Trump himself has seemed perplexed; in the span of two years, the president once hailed Gowdy as a brilliant lawmaker before bashing him as a failure and then embracing him once again.

Now, after years shouldering the House GOP’s weightiest and most politically explosive investigations, he’s again drawn the ire of Trump-world. And this time, he’s virtually alone, getting little support from his House colleagues.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/...-theory-617948

Gowdy insisted that the FBI did not, in fact, plant a spy in the Trump camp for political purposes. Rather, he said, the FBI appropriately deployed an informant to glean intelligence from members on the outer edge of Trump’s campaign. The FBI had received troubling evidence that those individuals had suspect ties to Russia, and the bureau had been obligated to pursue those legitimate leads, Gowdy said. The briefing, for only a select group of nine senior lawmakers of both parties, only bolstered his position, he said.

Trey Gowdy -- compromised by the Deep State??

[jet3534]

He appears to be compromised as most people would be if targeted by the deep state.

[5.56NATO]

If gowdy replaces sessions, killary and the rest of the 0bama regime hacks will walk. Giuliani would have been a better choice than sessions or gowdy. If you don't think sessions is the insurance policy for the anti Trump conspiracy, why is lois lerner walking free? Why isn't killary behind bars? The case against killary is a slam dunk compared to the evidence against lerner

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[alismith]

I'm wondering if Gowdy made that statement to appear to be a little "left-leaning" so that when the vote comes up for him to fill Session's shoes, the Dims will decide that he isn't that bad of a choice, and vote for him, without putting up too much of a fight.

Then, when he's in, he comes back to the Trey we all know.

His statement may be nothing more than a calculated move in his part to assure he gets the votes he needs.

After that, he's free to persue those he's been after already.

If Trump nominates him, then he's aware of this, too.

Don't forget that Trump plays the long game and does a lot of maneuvering behind the scenes before he makes his move.

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House Speaker Paul Ryan said Wednesday he agreed with South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy that the FBI did "exactly" what it was supposed to do in its handling of the investigation into Russian election meddling and possible connections to President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.

"I think Chairman Gowdy's initial assessment's accurate, I think, but we have some more digging to do. We're waiting for some more document requests," Ryan told reporters at a news conference on Capitol Hill. "It would have been helpful if we got this information earlier."

Officials briefed Ryan, Gowdy and other congressional leaders last month on the FBI's use of a confidential source that interacted with Trump's campaign two years ago as the Department of Justice investigated Russian meddling.

The briefings came after House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes demanded more information about the source -- a push that has prompted Trump to publicly speculate whether the FBI infiltrated his campaign. Nunes declined to comment Wednesday.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/06/polit...wdy/index.html

[5.56NATO]

Lol, when it all comes out, the cia director along with the dni and heads of fbi conspired with the dnc/killary to intervene - with multiple foreign governments - in a US election.