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As a member of the House Intel Committee, he was assigned to go and read the FISA report about Carter Page and FBI surveillance.
He was never the same after he returned.
This was the same Trey Gowdy that attacked Hillary Clinton for 4 years over Benghazi.
But now, he is defending the FBI. He says they were just doing their job. They are doing what any American citizen would want them to do, he says.
Why the change? He is leaving Congress in November but is that really the reason? Or did he read something in the top secret FISA warrant that shook him back into reality?
Right-wing radio hosts and other prominent Republicans are portraying him as betraying Donald Trump and the Republican Party. What is the real reason Trey Gowdy is defending the FBI and contradicting Donald Trump's claims of a "spy" within his campaign?
PJMcK
(22,077 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Trump allies gang up on Gowdy
The GOP lawmaker was once a conservative hero. Now hes under fire on the right for balking at Trumps spygate theory.
By KYLE CHENEY 06/02/2018 06:45 AM EDT
Rep. Trey Gowdy has been a pitbull investigator for Republicans for years. Now, hes in President Donald Trumps doghouse for daring to challenge the presidents 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. Trumps personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, labeled him uninformed. Another Trump-tied attorney, Victoria Toensing, said Gowdy doesnt 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.
Its the latest twist in Gowdys 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 GOPs weightiest and most politically explosive investigations, hes again drawn the ire of Trump-world. And this time, hes virtually alone, getting little support from his House colleagues.
The retiring South Carolina Republicans emergence as a critic of Trumps conspiracy theory began Tuesday, when Gowdy went on Fox News to discuss his takeaway from a classified Justice Department briefing last week about the presidents claims.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/02/gowdy-trump-spygate-theory-617948
*when it rains it pours
Sancho
(9,072 posts)tazkcmo
(7,306 posts)He already knew that it was all bull shit. The only thing that has changed is he's not running again and that's why he's defending the FBI. Dollars to Donuts that if he was still running for reelection he would be singing a different tune.
underpants
(183,065 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)that may have stretched over several years . And certain people were under investigation for Treason or other International Crimes. Remember,there is 17 different investigative Agencies.
JI7
(89,290 posts)He just decided he isn't going to destroy his career for trump.
Even out of elected office he has the background to easily get a job again.
czarjak
(11,346 posts)He was probably shown what a real investigation comes up with.
mnmoderatedem
(3,739 posts)Devin Nunes. Has not run his big yapper ever since the Rosenstein briefing.
Very telling I think.
SeattleVet
(5,485 posts)What they saw in that paper must have been very damning, and pretty airtight.
Especially if they couldn't find anything at all in it that they could spin to make it sound good for them.
Total, complete silence. When has Nunes *ever* been quiet about *anything*???
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)mnmoderatedem
(3,739 posts)and it looks like Rosenstein agreeing to that meeting may have been a good thing, though I was very wary of it. Looks like he may have said, ok fuckers, here's a sampling of the goods we have on you. You may want a change of underwear when we're done?
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)He's a republican. 'nuf said. They have demonstrated repeatedly that they don't do honesty or integrity. Sad.
kentuck
(111,111 posts)But, if the top secret briefing were to become public, he would be the first suspect.
Golden Raisin
(4,619 posts)Radio silence from Nunes since the Rosenstein briefing, from someone who is usually a rabid, yapping diarrhea-mouth.
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,235 posts)...while he was a member of the Trump team.
As alluded to by Kremlin propagandist Konstantin Rykov in a contemporaneous posting on Facebook: