Former GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy joins Trump's impeachment defense team

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Former South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy, who led the Republican investigation into Hillary Clinton and the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, will help defend Pres. Trump as he faces the Democratic-led impeachment investigation.

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Former South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy, a colorful congressman who led the Republican investigation into Hillary Clinton and the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, will help defend President Donald Trump as he faces the Democratic-led impeachment investigation.

It was unclear what specific role Gowdy would play in the current White House strategy of not cooperating with the investigation, but when word got out that he was being considered, a television clip from 2012 surfaced showing him saying it is"wrong" to withhold documents from Congress regardless of politics.

As chair of the House committee tasked with investigating the 2012 terrorist attack on an American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, Gowdy vaulted into the national spotlight for his intense and critical questions about whether then- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton could have prevented the attack or dealt with it more effectively.

"Rep. Gowdy’s tenure in Congress made a mockery of Congressional oversight and his eagerness to use the deaths of brave Americans overseas in service of his partisan, political goals is a dark and shameful chapter in the history of the House of Representatives," DCCC Deputy Communications Director Patrick Burgwinkle wrote.

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I’ve noticed when he says, “ I don’t know...” it usually means I’m not going to tell you. When he REALLY doesn’t know something he just makes shit up so he doesn’t look dumb! LOL 😂

There is always Drama with this man because he never learns from the mistakes he makes .

TreyGowdy's still busy investigating Hillary's role in Ben Ghazi. Plus, Trump's versing him on how to say, 'No quid pro quo!' Trump's putting Trey on the team to make Rudy look intelligent.

No problem. Trumpsky will be long gone from thee WH by then. It will be a wonderful Christmas present. ImpeachAndRemove

Nah man, Trey be ready...!

He going to need help, any others suckasses want to add their name to this charade? 🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥

Gowdy/ Gotti !! cover up continues!

Such a guy

Kick their ass Trey dont let this happen no more

Poor guy

I’m sure TGowdySC is going to be part of Trump’s “What About...” crew. He’ll be in charge of getting knuckle deep in the Right-Wing conspiracy theories that have never been proven! HypocriticalHack

BLOODY TRAITORS THE LOT OF THEM !!!! Screwing and cheating THE AMERICAN PEOPLE !!!! IN PLAIN SITE!!!!!’

Gross

Dont worry nobody going to fail nor turn up death for lack funding healthy independent Chronicle civilrights exchanges sovereign jurisdictions manpower confidence positioning authority of attacks

He failed I n each and every investigation. He came up empty. He led a witchhunt. Why is that not not included in your tweet?. He should reimburse taxpayers for all the money he wasted persecuting Hillary!

IT FIGURES ATTACK DEMS AND PROTECT GUILTY REPUBLICONS

So, what happens if the House just decides to proceed directly to a floor vote on impeachment WITHOUT even having a formal investigation? Apparently, they're not constitutionally obliged to have an inquiry. A move like that would definitely neuter Mr. Gowdy.

Democrat-led FAKE impeachment investigation! EnemyOfThePeople

Filibuster Trey will always be known as treybenghazi...he's from SC... talk long enough, even a dead raccoon will come down from a tree.

Wait, Rudy Giuliani is his main squeeze. What happened. “As the WH Spins “!

The Ds need to make a tv ad out of his rant about an admin releasing documents to Congress

Good Gowsy's smug face can crash when Trump gets an impeachment

He is a Never-Trumper and will be , no trust on him

People is not that smart in the SC state of the coconut tree family. Navy overhauls its charleston base to only do nothing because new navy intell living here has no clue whether NK is capably testing its SLBM. Jokes on the navy

Will he get paid up front? Whose money?

Weird how leaves out that Gowdy was caught falsifying evidence in the Benghazi investigation in the headline. Oh right, media keeps pretending that Republican criminality is normal.

Ofcourse he is 🎬

Perfect addition to the clown show. Bravo!

So I'm guessing that he insists that Donnie goes under oath and answers 11 hours of questioning. Since he didn't catch the obviously crooked Hillary that way, the obviously innocent Donnie, with his genius mind, would breeze through 11 hours and prove his innocence

of course he will and he will be a walking contradiction of everything he's said and stood for in the past. TraitorsSupportTraitorTrump TGowdySC is a traitor

Hillary was guilty as sin and she walked free without even a slap on the wrist. This is they guy they get? Trump will surely be impeached now.

Lol

right

realDonaldTrump The C team? Or is this the D team? If you just resign, you can keep the cash from the defense fund

Laurel Hanson Enos

Bye Bye Deep State Pc's of SHIT.

Thats not news or new

Paul Hanson Enos

Little pin head is back ...

Maria Allen Lambert Enos

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

So they hire a guy who was such an abject failure at investigating Hillary & Benghazi. Must have found a small slot in the swamp (cesspool) that needed filling. A 1 choice!

Nice addition but I'm still just some bummed that we are even at this point. Why did PresidentTrump do this himself and do this to MAGA that call was so stupid and unnecessary I just wanna cry. He just keeps stepping it, I've never seen such self sabotage by one man

To be fair TGowdySC is a hypocritical, craven hack without a single identifiable principle

Gowdy? Who couldn't bring charges, or even recommend a censure during the Benghazi hearings? ROTFLMAO! Trump's attorneys are a sad bunch. Cohen is in prison. Giuliani is heading in that direction. And Gowdy was dumb enough to board the sinking ship!

And how'd that go for him? I do believe Hillary is still out and about. Let me check my notes real qu- ah ha! Yep. Might as well get a jumpsuit for the clown of a president now.

Selling his soul to defend Trump; he will soon look like a fool defending the indefensible.

Did get paid in advance?

Thank God we have some Americans in Washington D.C.

Another Republican Looser.

The same guy that Hillary allowed to grill her for hours and found nothing?

Benghazi

The Benghazi weasel?

I have great respect for Trey Gowdy. Will be a joy to watch him fightfor justice.

he’d have better luck with curt gowdy

Typical fake news. He is not defending Trump. He is a long time prosecutor and is making sure the president has the correct advise in navigating the proscess.

The defense consists in diverting attention with a counterattack, fantastic, the great problem of the country.

Never tell the truth Gowdy would rather play hate politics than seek justice.

Good! Go Trey!

Oh great, we get 2 watch Gowdy’s freak innuendo show, using his weird facial contortions, designed 2 confuse onlookers + imply criminality of the innocent + innocence + victimhood of the actual criminals. Fasten ur seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride. circus

Another snake in the grass.

He's obviously incompetent because she should have been convicted so maybe realDonaldTrump will be.

pinhead will find a way to blame hillary

Another evil man! Defending that monstrosity of evil!

Another corrupt aboard we know him already he is useless don't worry

That means he will be 0 and 3

Seems no matter how many times they're flushed some South Carolina dog turds just keep floating back into the bowl. LeningradLindsey TraitorTrey

The hypocrisy of it all, nothing is lost on irony.

Career politician and hypocrite.

Either desperate, or wants to ruin his career? TGowdySC

Love this guy!

Has the experience in fighting Gov.Corruption & will call it what it is , Deep State Coup.

He is going DOWN!!!!

I love his situational ethics. This is going to be entertaining.

Bottom of the barrel

His insides are turning gangrenous as the ETTD necrosis sets in. TheRickWilson

Still waiting for your investigation of ACTUAL corruption by Biden putting his son on the Ukrainian board. Oops, sorry. Forgot you're just DNC propagandists.

Huh. All that time and money wasted.....for nothing, he’s your man?

Trey is awesome! I’ve seen him take on the idiots in the senate & congress many times - he leaves them speechless. 👍🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸

How did that go?

Well that's a different, a rat jumping ON a sinking ship.

Trump continues to surround himself with losers! Gowdy is no different! Isn't he the one who married a family member!

Former South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy, who led the Republican investigation into Hillary Clinton and the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, will help defend Pres. Trump as he faces the Democratic-led impeachment investigation.

Lol. The Benghazi investigation that went no where and cost how much. Good lord.

spurguy210 It will be fun to see how donald handles 11 hours of intense interrogation.

Democrats are totally screwed!

That should go well because he was successful in indicting Hillary........oh wait! I forgot, Gowdy spent millions of OUR dollars, wasted Sec Clinton’s time for several years AND GOT NOTHING! He’s only coming back now to bilk us out of millions because TRUMP WILL BE IMPEACHED!

Great, we get to hear trey spew hypocritical bs

Dems are in trouble

The clip you are referencing is not from an impeachment investigation. You would be a fool to underestimate this one.

And what was the result Of his lengthy investigation of HRC Oh yea - she had done nothing wrong ...

But the emails!!!

Traitors all

Who’s paying him?

These people have no soul. They have no self respect. How can you just sell out that fast. Graham, Giulian the list is endless. Absoutly disgusting.

I’m curious if he asked to be paid upfront?

No surprise that the morally compromised would form an alliance. I hope the Democrats pursue this impeachment as vigorously and doggedly as Gowdy pursued Mrs. Clinton. The only difference will be that Gowdy found nothing, but the Democrats will find plenty.

Perfect. He failed last time and will no doubt give a repeat performance

Dems are toast for sure now! Schiff will be crying in a corner lying to his mommy.

Of course, rats are pack animals.

Things just got interesting. TGowdySC is a fantastic attorney. I say that as a Democrat.

He is the Best!

A known and documented liar joining trump. Seems to have been inevitable.

😂😂😂

Right...”what difference does it make “?

Thank goodness

The Best. Love Gowdy.

😂 Poor lying, no good corrupt realDonaldTrump! I hope orange is your favourite colour!

Looks like he’s ready to go two and O.

OH GOOD HE IS FULL OF SHIT TO AND NO GOOD AWESOME

Keep in mind he is a Former, just trying to pump up his chest. He has no idea what is in front of him

He will lose! We won! ImpeachTheMF

Hahaha good. He got away with too much. Hoping he goes down with them 🙂

he's gona testify but no one from the adminstration is ?

Great to have a winner like you on the team to stop the illegal coup!

👍

great news for dems, given that he sides with losers.

Only the best from South Carolina, LeningradLindsey and Trey, I couldn’t break HillaryClinton after 11 hours of testimony. Yup bring in all the corrupt GOP to defend a maniacal, draft dodging, foreign-ass kissing POTUS

Good lord we have to be subjected to TreyGowdy! There is NO GOD! treygowdyisaTraitor

The press took this man seriously as he led the farcical Benghazi 'hearings.' Have they learned their lesson, or will they still pretend that Mr. Ever-Changing Bad Hairstyle is a Very Serious Person?

Trey, you can do this! Truth is on your side! 💚🍀🇺🇸⚖️

Another one willing to throw his reputation down the drain!!!

This should be entertaining. Looking forward to all the new memes.

Gowdy 🙄

Gowdy is just another republican traitor

This is the guy who four years ago that said all documents requested by Congress needs to be submitted or it is obstruction of justice.

Trump: I want you on my team Gawdy: Ok, can I see all the docs and data Trump: No, play it by ear and lie if you have to Gowdy: -.- (run)

Hmmm, interesting 🤔

Rep Gowdy is on the wrong side of history and is defending a sinking ship.

Fox then fires him from his job as a “Contributor,” but will no doubt have him now “contributing” as Trump’s lawyer, spokesperson, and boring gaslighter. But tell us more about letting him go due to a “conflict of interest.”

This is a parody account, right? ...right?

💩=💩

maurt42 He's going to get his hair messed up in the blowback.

Yeah that’s quite a resume. Color me impressed. Can he also run a 12 minute mile?

Gowdy starts his new case with zero credibility & tons of hypocrisy. 🤨

After seven GOP lead investigations he will find nothing… Again

Saw him on tv thought ..why not

Does this guy have any credibility?

spurguy210

Role reversal

👏🏼👏🏼

bmangh

At least we know he’s all about transparency and turning over documents!

Watch the sparks fly. There's no one better than Trey.

No wonder Fox News terminated him!!!

The total failure investigations of Hillary you mean? And she even testified.

One insane clown defending another sounds like a awarding wining duo

Vampire is the only word that comes to mind when I see this guy. He is soulless pit.

Trump supporters are like children. Give them a treat and a slogan to chant and they will jump for joy.

I bet he got paid up front.

Turn over all the documents, emails and phone calls on the private lines. Oh, this will be hilarious. Let's not forget when the tables were turned and they attacked HillaryClinton! Can you even imagine this. Oh Hillary, come back, you so deserve it!

He is sooo effective....

I guess he changed his mind. Reporting yesterday suggested he wasn’t going to do it. What happened?

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