Trump allies gang up on Gowdy
Source: Politico
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 is 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.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/02/gowdy-trump-spygate-theory-617948
Paladin
(28,287 posts)olegramps
(8,200 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)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.
The speaker has full confidence in Chairman Gowdys judgement, and is grateful for his leadership and service, Ryan spokeswoman AshLee Strong said Friday.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,004 posts)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)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)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)olegramps
(8,200 posts)yonder
(9,687 posts)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)considered loyal enough for the cult. They'll all turn on each other Lord of the Flies style.
ck4829
(35,096 posts)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.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)redstateblues
(10,565 posts)Strelnikov_
(7,772 posts)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)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"??
Strelnikov_
(7,772 posts)Have to hand it to him for being seeing the writing on the wall.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)tells you all you need to know about the soul of the republican party.
Sad.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)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.
Marcuse
(7,561 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,075 posts)Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)he'll be playing the banjo again in Deliverance II.
bitterross
(4,066 posts)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)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)It's like rats screaming "iceburg" as they jump off the Trumptanic.
Uncle Joe
(58,564 posts)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. 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.
Thanks for the thread DonViejo
randr
(12,418 posts)They have been taken over by their antichrist