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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Jun 2, 2018, 10:48 AM Jun 2018

Trump allies gang up on Gowdy

Source: Politico




The GOP lawmaker was once a conservative hero. Now he’s under fire on the right for balking at Trump’s ‘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, 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.



Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/02/gowdy-trump-spygate-theory-617948

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Trump allies gang up on Gowdy (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2018 OP
When the likes of Gowdy and Sessions start looking good, you KNOW we are in trouble. (nt) Paladin Jun 2018 #1
The little pointy head slim bag is attempting a lousy job of redemption. olegramps Jun 2018 #13
Don't you mean they are in trouble? :) Gowdy's one of the Hortensis Jun 2018 #28
I guess no matter who you are, you dare not speak against The Trump. The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2018 #2
Imagine, WOW, what would happen if Melania were more overt against Trump empedocles Jun 2018 #7
I wonder why she doesn't dump him. Maybe she was conned into a bad pre-nump. olegramps Jun 2018 #14
"pre-nump", good one. I may have to steal that?? yonder Jun 2018 #16
Feel free. Thanks. olegramps Jun 2018 #21
Got one, as in: yonder Jun 2018 #22
Sooner or later these scumbags are gonna learn no one will be Guy Whitey Corngood Jun 2018 #3
Yep, it's psychology ck4829 Jun 2018 #25
Gowdy must think trump is in serious trouble. Hoyt Jun 2018 #4
Bingo! Nailed it. redstateblues Jun 2018 #9
The CorFlake's are positioning themselves to be leaders of the rebooted GOP Strelnikov_ Jun 2018 #10
But wait, Trey was supposed to be the "Golden Boy". They all wanted HIM for Atty Gen. 7962 Jun 2018 #5
Gowdy is on board the CorFlake train Strelnikov_ Jun 2018 #6
A KGOP republican gang led by a five-time draft-dodging casino hustler Achilleaze Jun 2018 #8
This will cause duforsure Jun 2018 #11
The only change is that Gowdy is not running for re-election. Marcuse Jun 2018 #12
Yup. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2018 #17
I wonder if Bob Loblaw Jun 2018 #15
Proving again that it is a cult and not a party now. bitterross Jun 2018 #18
He's the "nice" guard in the death camp LiberalLovinLug Jun 2018 #19
The only ones who dare speak out are leaving office soon. flibbitygiblets Jun 2018 #20
No doubt the Republicans tearing into Gowdy Uncle Joe Jun 2018 #23
Kick ck4829 Jun 2018 #24
Republicans always react adversely to truth randr Jun 2018 #26
whow. this surprises me. well, for a moment it did. riversedge Jun 2018 #27

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
28. Don't you mean they are in trouble? :) Gowdy's one of the
Sun Jun 3, 2018, 11:44 AM
Jun 2018

rats leaving the ship who feel newly free to give the ship the finger, and say what they really think. Ryan's another, of course, but still trying to patch his house disaster together enough that it doesn't collapse until after he gets out the door.

How interesting that Gowdy has “never met or talked to” Trump given his prominence in the leadership.

Speaker Paul Ryan, one of just four other Republicans to attend last week’s Justice Department briefing on the matter, has not addressed the substance of Gowdy’s assertions. But asked whether he backed them, Ryan’s office issued a broad statement of support for the House Oversight Committee chairman.

“The speaker has full confidence in Chairman Gowdy’s judgement, and is grateful for his leadership and service,” Ryan spokeswoman AshLee Strong said Friday.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(116,004 posts)
2. I guess no matter who you are, you dare not speak against The Trump.
Sat Jun 2, 2018, 10:57 AM
Jun 2018

You'd think that after the ridiculous Benghazi hearings Gowdy would be an unassailable GOPer hero, but apparently not, since he dared to suggest that the Russia investigation is actually not a witch hunt. But speaking against The Trump is heresy in the House GOP these days.

empedocles

(15,751 posts)
7. Imagine, WOW, what would happen if Melania were more overt against Trump
Sat Jun 2, 2018, 11:09 AM
Jun 2018

What the trump hate groupers would do to Melania, if she dared speak out against trump. For melania silence/conspicuous absence is much safer, and perhaps, over time, more effective. Melania has signaled by publicly not holding hands, etc., wihout major public cost. Raging trumpdumpster may be another story.

olegramps

(8,200 posts)
14. I wonder why she doesn't dump him. Maybe she was conned into a bad pre-nump.
Sat Jun 2, 2018, 01:02 PM
Jun 2018

She is probably lucky she doesn't have a some brain eating venereal disease that his husband is obviously suffering from.

yonder

(9,687 posts)
22. Got one, as in:
Sat Jun 2, 2018, 03:34 PM
Jun 2018

There once was a chump named drumpf.
Young blondes he often would jump.
Awed by his pre-nump he would try.
Though his small nump wouldn't comply.
A slap on the ass, he's out of gas, post-nump.



apologies in advance

Guy Whitey Corngood

(26,514 posts)
3. Sooner or later these scumbags are gonna learn no one will be
Sat Jun 2, 2018, 11:02 AM
Jun 2018

considered loyal enough for the cult. They'll all turn on each other Lord of the Flies style.

ck4829

(35,096 posts)
25. Yep, it's psychology
Sat Jun 2, 2018, 08:02 PM
Jun 2018

When you live with a black and white worldview where people are either friends or enemies when they slight you in some way, eventually everyone is going to become an enemy in your eyes.

Strelnikov_

(7,772 posts)
10. The CorFlake's are positioning themselves to be leaders of the rebooted GOP
Sat Jun 2, 2018, 11:16 AM
Jun 2018

following the Trump collapse.

They know that with the Trump taint there will have to be a major re-branding, hence the pearl-clutching which is just positioning for the future.

The money behind the GOP will still be there. Remember, the Kochs et. al. wanted nothing to do with Trump. Ryan, Gowdy, CorFlake will be in position to be well funded candidates in the future (well, maybe not Corker, he appears to be tired of politics).



 

7962

(11,841 posts)
5. But wait, Trey was supposed to be the "Golden Boy". They all wanted HIM for Atty Gen.
Sat Jun 2, 2018, 11:04 AM
Jun 2018

I've seen so many FB clips & memes about how wonderful & brilliant he is. How HE should be head of every dept.
So now HE is part of the "Deep state"??

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
8. A KGOP republican gang led by a five-time draft-dodging casino hustler
Sat Jun 2, 2018, 11:15 AM
Jun 2018

tells you all you need to know about the soul of the republican party.

Sad.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
11. This will cause
Sat Jun 2, 2018, 11:43 AM
Jun 2018

More to jump from the nightmare rump train wreck coming, and vote with the Democrats to first restrict him , then to help remove him. More Republicans will be crossing over to stop this self destruction tactics from rump, or it'll continue to get a lot worse.

 

bitterross

(4,066 posts)
18. Proving again that it is a cult and not a party now.
Sat Jun 2, 2018, 01:44 PM
Jun 2018

They turned on one of their own as soon as he stopped supporting their Deal Leader.

They are not a party any longer. They are a cult of power and greed.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,180 posts)
19. He's the "nice" guard in the death camp
Sat Jun 2, 2018, 01:52 PM
Jun 2018

The illusion that there may be hope because this guard who was previously in charge of sending others to their fates with fake evidence, has slipped you a small soup bone to gnaw on.

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)
20. The only ones who dare speak out are leaving office soon.
Sat Jun 2, 2018, 01:56 PM
Jun 2018

It's like rats screaming "iceburg" as they jump off the Trumptanic.

Uncle Joe

(58,564 posts)
23. No doubt the Republicans tearing into Gowdy
Sat Jun 2, 2018, 03:43 PM
Jun 2018

believe that labels are more important than policies or process.

I would hate to be them.



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.




Thanks for the thread DonViejo
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