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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDemocrats: Will new GOP oversight chairman Trey Gowdy pursue Trump?
WASHINGTON Rep. Trey Gowdy is known as a dogged investigator of Hillary Clinton. Now Democrats wonder whether the South Carolina Republican will pursue President Donald Trump with the same vigor he used in going after the Democratic presidential candidate.
Later this month, Gowdy, 52, is set to become chairman of the powerful House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, where he will lead official scrutiny of the Trump administration, including a budding investigation into possible ties between Russia and Trump's campaign. Gowdy led a two-year investigation into the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, focusing heavily on Clinton's role as secretary of state.
It was the committee's probe that revealed Clinton used a private email server for government work, prompting an FBI investigation that proved to be an albatross in her campaign.
House Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republicans say the four-term lawmaker and former federal prosecutor is the right man for the job. Democrats are not convinced.
"When push gets to shove, I think Trey's a reliable partisan and that's why Ryan picked him," said Rep. Gerald Connolly, D-Va.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrats-will-new-gop-oversight-chairman-pursue-trump/ar-BBCkIAn?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=edgsp
dembotoz
(16,784 posts)mhw
(678 posts)"Trey's a reliable partisan and that's why Ryan picked him,"
kimbutgar
(21,040 posts)Every rethug who protects chump is a treasonous traitor who is not a patriot.
MineralMan
(146,248 posts)In fact, not a chance.
pbmus
(12,422 posts)gademocrat7
(10,643 posts)Another rethug who is vindictive and just disgusting.
YCHDT
(962 posts)Kleveland
(1,257 posts)NFW
He will too busy to do the right thing.
It takes time and concentration to provide the appropriate spin on stupidity.
Idiocracy doesn't just grow on trees you know.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)QED
(2,747 posts)Doesn't he look like a wax figure?
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,711 posts)Are Republicans too cheap to find a decent barber? So many of them have shitty haircuts.
QED
(2,747 posts)Bleacher Creature
(11,250 posts)At which point I'll post a response.