Tag: Rep. Gowdy

FBI was right to deploy informant, senior GOP lawmaker says

The following article by Kyle Cheney was posted on the Politico website May 29, 2018:

“I am even more convinced that the FBI did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do when they got the information they got,” Trey Gowdy said in an interview on Fox News. Credit: Andrew Harnik, AP Photo

A senior House Republican who was part of a highly classified Justice Department briefing last week said on Tuesday that the FBI acted properly when it deployed an informant to gather information from advisers to President Donald Trump’s campaign in 2016.

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) said last week’s briefing, convened by the Justice Department under pressure from Trump, convinced him even further that the FBI’s information-gathering steps were appropriate. Continue reading “FBI was right to deploy informant, senior GOP lawmaker says”

GOP intel member says committee’s report does not vindicate Trump

The following article by Tommy Christopher was posted on the Shareblue.com website April 29, 2018:

Trump’s ‘no collusion’ lie took a beating Sunday, as even Republican attack dog Rep. Trey Gowdy rejected it.

Credit: CBS

Trump seized on the Republican House Intelligence Committee’s sham report this week to once again push his “no collusion” talking point. But South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy, a prominent member of that committee, shot the argument down Sunday morning.

On CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” host Margaret Brennan pointed out that Gowdy’s committee did not interview Michael Flynn, among others. And she asked about Trump’s interpretation of the committee’s findings. Continue reading “GOP intel member says committee’s report does not vindicate Trump”

Gowdy admits he wasted America’s time for his whole 7 years in Congress

The following article by Kaili Joy Gray was posted on the ShareBlue website April 6, 2018:

Trey Gowdy, the soon-to-retire top Republican attack dog in the House, is finally admitting what a terrible job he did in Congress.

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) said: “I think it is fair to ask the deputy attorney general, ‘What did you know at the time you signed one of the applications?'” Credit: AP Photo

South Carolina Republican Trey Gowdy has been viciously hyper-partisan since the day he rode the 2010 tea party wave to Congress, but now he says his heart was never really in it.

“It’s not who I am,” the congressman insisted in an interview with Vice News.

That would be shocking news to anyone who has watched Gowdy in office. For two-and-a-half years, he chaired the panel investigating Benghazi, spending nearly $8 million to try to prove that President Obama and Hillary Clinton were somehow to blame in some vague but nefarious way. Continue reading “Gowdy admits he wasted America’s time for his whole 7 years in Congress”

Gowdy steps down from Ethics Committee, citing ‘challenging workload’

The following article by Max Greenwood was posted on the Hill website January 13, 2018:

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) has resigned from his post on the House Ethics Committee, citing a challenging workload that also includes his chairmanship on the powerful House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

In a letter to Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) dated Jan. 10, Gowdy said that he would “treasure” his experience on the Ethics panel, but acknowledged that it was difficult balancing that assignment with his work on other committees. Continue reading “Gowdy steps down from Ethics Committee, citing ‘challenging workload’”