Gowdy requests info on Ivanka Trump's personal email use

[Julian Englis]

Source: The Hill

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) sent a letter to the White House Tuesday asking for information on Ivanka Trump's usage of her personal email to discuss government business.

Gowdy, chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, requested that White House chief of staff John Kelly provide information on the basis that using that email "implicate[s] the Presidential Records Act and other security and recordkeeping requirements."

The letter also set a Dec. 5 deadline for a response to the inquiry and asked that the Committee be kept up to date on the internal White House investigation on recordkeeping, including any findings related to Ivanka's email usage.

The Washington Post first reported early Tuesday that Ivanka sent hundreds of emails about White House business and her official schedule to administration aides, Cabinet officials and her personal assistants during 2017.


Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/417758-gowdy-requests-info-on-ivanka-trumps-person-email-use

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Trey Gowdy? I thought his name was Ben Gowdy.

[C_U_L8R]

1. Does Congress have the right to request and read those emails?

They are OUR property, right?

[machoneman]

2. Bwahahhaha! Gowdy demands Ivanka's stuff? Hilarious!

Bet this doesn't go far even as he loses the chair post in less than 2 months!

Any takers??????????????

[AZ8theist]

12. Yes.

I will bet you one dollar......

And you pay me $1000000000 dollars ...

IF YOU'RE RIGHT!!!!

(see what I did there?? ...stacked the deck..)

BTW ..those odds are about the same as Gowdy doing ANYTHING defending his oath to the Constitution.

[machoneman]

20. Hah! n/m

n/m

[KCDebbie]

3. Gowdy's an out-going republican, right?

Maybe he's requesting the info to make sure it disappears before the Dems take control of the House!

[cstanleytech]

15. Probably has a plan to run for president in 2024 or 2028 and

plans to try to use it as part of some bogus claim of being willing to stand up to Trump.

[samnsara]

4. whoa maaaan!

[George II]

5. Good, he'll set it on the tee and the incoming Chair will drive it down the fairway.

[Iliyah]

6. Cover for t-rump's family

nothing else. Nunes . . .

[AZ8theist]

13. CALLING TRAITOR NUNES!! CALLING TRAITOR NUNES!! CALL FROM THE WHITE HOUSE ON LINE ONE!

[BigmanPigman]

7. Why, so he can toss (oops, I mean lose) them?

[byronius]

8. Funniest thing I've read all day.

[GulfCoast66]

9. Now, I think Howdy Gowdy is a dick. But...

I see him like Sessions. His whole idea of what our constitutional government is fundamentally different that ours. But they are not corrupt in the traditional sense of the word. They still value the rule of law, even if their idea of the playing field is totally fucked. And he was a prosecutor. He actually admitted the Bengazi thing was political.

That’s why he is leaving. If trump had just brought in very conservative ideas like Reagan did he would be sticking around. God knows I hate Reagan, but he was no trump. Gowdy knows the fuckers are trashing the rule of law daily and even he reached his breaking point. Now a truly ethical person would have called it out. but He has his future to think about.

I post this reluctantly because I am not a good enough writer to explain what I truly mean. Suffice to say there are conservatives who are not down with wrecking our entire system. 40 of the just retired from the house.

[Raven123]

16. Trey Gowdy defended the Benghazi investigation as a nonpartisan, fact seeking adventure

He is one of those - Sessions included -who set the table for Trump. Sessions openly supported Trump. They are Trump’s enablers, IMO.

[GulfCoast66]

18. Oh, I totally agree

I just think he did not foresee trump would go this far.

He is a dick. But he knows laws are being violated daily and did not sign up for that. He had a bridge too far. Same as Sessions. He would push us as far right as possible. But having the Justice Department do the presidents bidding was a bridge too far. And now we have a man with no bridge too far as his replacement.

But you know what happened when we stretched for a bridge too far? Where the term comes from? It did not end well for the stretchers.

[Midnight Writer]

27. My 2 cents? He is indeed a dick jockeying for a major pay out in the "public sector".

This is just for the resume.

[Raven123]

29. He referred to the Benghazi investigation as a trial

Someone with his resume knows better. He errors not by breaking laws, but by distortion and using his credentials to suggest his efforts are those of law enforcement. He is unethical.

I believe Gowdy was one of the stretchers who gave is Trump.

I agree he and Sessions see a line they won't cross. They leave rather than fight or be fired and pretend to be clean.

[True Blue American]

24. True

Like Sessions, Trey’s ideas are strictly alien to me, and I will never stop the memory of Trey and his red, sweating face after 9 hours of trying to bring down Hillary while she came out smiling and cool.

But there is a thread of decency in both men. I do not think that Of Whitaker. I see him as a man who would sell his Mother to get ahead. His past clearly shows that. I may be wrong but doubt it.

[lilactime]

10. He's treating it like an administrative issue instead of a criminal one.

[volstork]

11. Is this The Onion?

n/t

[Autumn]

14. Destruction of evidence is his plan.

[still_one]

17. I wonder if he will call her before Congress for a 12 to 15 hour interogation?

[DURHAM D]

19. Guess he has been told that he will never be considered

by Trump to be appointed Attorney General or head of the FBI.

[0rganism]

21. i think the Republicans are backing away from Anusmouth now

to do so, they have to make the bullshit they pulled over the last 6 years of the Obama administration seem like they'd do it to anyone. they want to play themselves up as impartial and non-partisan actors, and they would sacrifice the Trumps in a second if it got them the positioning they wanted.

Trump picks his allies poorly and makes enemies easily, 2 traits that make his political career particularly ill-advised.

[canetoad]

22. Ha. What goes around

Comes around.

[BaronChocula]

23. It's cool Trey.

We got this. Just clean out your desk, you pupa of a man.

[DFW]

25. He announces this five weeks before his retirement?

What are his other plans before leaving Congress on December 31, I wonder? Medicare overhaul? A new tax bill? A restructuring of the military? As long as he is pretending to start something he has no plans to finish, why not include a cure for cancer and permanent settlements on Mars?

[democratisphere]

26. Nope! Nope! Nope!

Ain't never going to call Trey Gowdy a hypocrite!

[duforsure]

28. He doesn't have the time to do anything but make this statement

The new Congress , Democrats will get to the bottom of this, and find out all she and others have done , especially destruction of evidence.

[SKKY]

30. I sincerely hope no one thinks this is an effort...

...by Gowdy to ensure equal justice under the law. This is Gowdy getting in front of the problem so they can coordinate a unified response.