Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., who has been at the forefront of investigations into both Hillary Clinton and alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election, said Wednesday he would not run for re-election, adding his name to a growing list of Republican lawmakers stepping aside.
In a lengthy statement, Gowdy, a former federal prosecutor, said he would be leaving politics for good to return to a career in the justice system.
"There is a time to come and a time to go. This is the right time, for me, to leave politics and return to the justice system," wrote Gowdy, who was first elected in 2010.
"I will not be filing for re-election to Congress nor seeking any other political or elected office; instead I will be returning to the justice system," he added. "Whatever skills I may have are better utilized in a courtroom than in Congress, and I enjoy our justice system more than our political system."
Yeah, well if that skill set is supposed to include the ability to differentiate between fact and fiction, then I think Gowdy is poorly qualified to practice law in any capacity.
This decision seems to have been quite recent as Gowdy's team just sent out a fundraising email for his 2018 campaign. Kind of makes you wonder what happened, doesn't it?
Trey Gowdy, along with Darrell Issa, were among the idiots that promoted exaggerated misinformation about the Benghazi attack, and then used that to attack both President Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Trey Gowdy has not an ethical bone in his body and should be treated as a pariah from this day forward.
Of course I guess he could go back to playing he banjo.
As for Democratic hopes moving forward, well as the great Freddie Mercury used to sing:
"Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
And another one gone, and another one gone
Another one bites the dust, yeah
Hey, I'm gonna get you too
Another one bites the dust"
Update: The Daily show weighs in.
One of the strangest heads of hair in Congress.In honor of his retirement, it's The Trey Gowdy Hairstyle Guide! Our personal fave is #8, "The Benghazi Blowout." What's yours? pic.twitter.com/4LaY2EuVJF— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) January 31, 2018
So he can hand down senteces like this as a judge? Alrighty then.
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I remember with great satisfaction how after grilling HRC for 11 hours at that Bs Bengahzi hearing TG was in a flop sweat and HRC was unfazed.
ReplyDeleteYep, and she looked beautiful after all that grilling.
DeleteHe's a Cone head.
DeleteHow much taxpayer money did this guy waste for his personal vendetta?
ReplyDeleteHis benefits and pension should be stripped as a partial refund.
Excellent Gryph. Back to the banjo for him.
ReplyDeleteNice try, Gryphen, but you are WRONG!!!
ReplyDeletePeople are saying that Mr. Gowdy and Mr. Issa are planning to form a private enterprise called either The Gowdy Issa Group or Blue Moon Detective Agency. While the name isnt important the goal of these two Super Patriots is to privately investigate Crooked Hillary for the next 100 years if that's what it takes to get to the bottom of the Whitewater Land Deal Scandal(tm), the biggest scandal since the FBI treason scandal which is the biggest scandal since Watergate (not the Nixon Watergate but the Kennedy or Johnson Watergate. Nixon was framed in his Watergate)
Neither Issa or Gowdy is a quitter (except for the quitting Congress thing). And they WILL prove Hillary guilty of something or my name isnt J. Phineous Liverspot Plutoniace!!!
ps, my name ISNT J. Phineous Liverspot Plutoniace!!!
Beldar J. Conehead then? How I miss that guy.
Delete"Gryohen, if that IS your real name...."
GRIN.
Good to see the jerk leaving Congress. He's been a horrible member and will not be missed.
ReplyDeleteThis creepy dude, issa and nunes are dangerous and corrupt. Something very strange with all of them. And all of them should not be in the justice system, law enforcement or politics. period.
ReplyDeleteAgree. Well-said.
DeleteAu contraire, they SHOULD be in the justice system. The part that would require them to wear some very unfashionable, high contrast, horizontal stripes.
DeleteWhy is he leaving now? What is he afraid of? It is something so bad he is giving up his power.Saying he wants to return to practice law yeah right. I read he was accepting campaign $ from anti-Hillary groups but there has so be more than that.
ReplyDeletego to hell gowdy!
ReplyDeleteWord is he's going to 4th Circuit judgeship or to DoJ by WH appt.
ReplyDeleteHe already blew his confirmation. He is headed for Mueller time.
DeleteFace it, there is no justice in our justice system any longer, or maybe I’m just tired of all of it.
ReplyDeleteGoing for Sessions' replacement at DoJ.
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And so the CDC person resigned too. She owns stock in tobacco. That's kinda like the dude that owns the mine and then is on the board at md Anderson cancer center.
ReplyDeleteI like hairstyle 13, the Blind Nazi Blues Singer
ReplyDeleteI've never seen a person with so many hairstyles who looks creepy in every single one of them!
ReplyDeleteHe's got the kind of face that makes you cross the street if you see him walking down the sidewalk.
Can you imagine that ass sitting in court prosecuting innocent people? Yikes, scary liar making up stories.
DeleteHe just needs a couple of big hairy testicles attached to his ears and he has the ultimate look for him.
Delete11:53 LOL!!!
DeleteThat's an Opiod addict if ever I've seen one - and I live in North Carolina.
ReplyDeleteOMG..Now i know who he reminds me of.Andy Dick.
ReplyDeleteYes, he is bob onit dick a close relative to ben gazi dick. They make up stories and behave like Nazis.
DeleteI'm very glad to see him go. He's unusual looking, but I don't judge him for that. None of us chose our shape. I do judge him for what he does however ... and what he has done is dishonest and despicable.
ReplyDeleteTres Gaudy!
ReplyDeleteHe has a cone head!
ReplyDelete#5 looks like a pineapple 🍍 top.
I've always called #8 the "Turban". He has to be "covering something up" on the top of his pointy head. ;)
DeleteLet’s just cut to the chase: that’s an ugly man.
ReplyDeleteOn Huffington post someone commented on the train wreck. They said, Republicans in a trainwreck hit by a dump truck.
ReplyDeleteAnother Republican bites the dust from Congress! Yea!
ReplyDeleteI rather like the "Beachy Waves" of #7, or as my stylist, who has a bit of an accent called it, "Bitchy Waves".
ReplyDeleteIt is very strange all of these folks are not running for re-election. Maybe they are doing a Palin and hoping for more money and less stress (work) in the private sector.
ReplyDeleteOr maybe Trump is going to make them all Federal judges. Who the f*ck knows?
#2 is pure Nazi.
ReplyDelete#1 looks more like current White Supremacist.
DeleteI wonder what ills Russia has on the Republican party members. I mean with Snowden as Putin's lapdog, I imagine, plenty has been given to the bald one for usage against the Americans.
ReplyDeleteWill America ever be the same again? Or will we have to accept that we have been annexed and we don't even know it. We just keep believing we are the free and the brave but I think we were sold out. Not just by Trump but by all his friends who worship the money. Putin knows how to make his friends rich. No wonder people keep jumping ship here. Before you know it, the rich will be knee deep in cash, and the rest of us will be under all of it drowning in our sorrows that we were duped.
"Citizen United" arranged by the supreme court of the united states of America provided the opportunity for what we have today. Don john trump, the biggest liar, con man and lousy actor. He owns nothing, but manages to put his name on the building. A branding marketing scam of all scams. He did it by using other peoples money all over the world. His debts are due, he cant pay, and so the Russian and Chinese mob have rigged the election, placed numb nuts in charge and here we are. Sanctions galore, liars, cons, mob and Americans asking what happened. Money in politics from corporations claiming to be people, Religion in politics giving mulligans for criminal behavior, A real shitshow from the swamp and circus of liars.
Delete11:40 PM - in a nutshell.
DeleteThe Talking Anus quits.
ReplyDeleteToo bad Talking out 'double Anus $hitholes' has
DeleteNOT QUIT yet.
I don't care what this azzclown looks like but I do care how he behaves. And his behavior has been extremely bad. This azzbag and his mob manufacturer the bengazi story and attacked secretary Clinton for no reason. So this fake fraud hateful shithead goes back a few years. Issa Nunes and him are all guilty of treason, espionage and being a traitor to the usa. In no way should he be allowed to practice law of anykind. He should be thrown out of the building today.
ReplyDeleteThis makes me very nervous actually.They are all going in to hiding.
ReplyDeleteWe are going into a fucking shitshow war and the rats are leaving town.
The smart money is on some sort of scandal. Drug addiction, an affair, a gay affair, hand in the cookie jar, etc etc etc.
ReplyDeleteGryphon! Yes, his hairdos are awkward and strange, but the man seriously has a pointy head. There is no hair that can cover the torpedo shape of his noggin!
ReplyDeleteHe looks like his head got caught in a vise.
DeleteRumor. Some sites are floating the rumor that Gowdy will be named the new AG. Both Nunes and Gowdy were involved in Trump’s transition team and were involved with Flynn. What better way to clear himself than become the AG and control the investigation. The Blue Wave wasn’t taking him down in his district. He had no fear of not being re-elected.
ReplyDeleteI guess in the sick Trumpian universe we now inhabit, whether willingly or not, Gowdy's "judicial" ambitions might be fulfilled. Personally, I'd only allow him in a courthouse manacled and wearing striped togs.
ReplyDeleteBeaglemom
Peckerwood!
ReplyDeleteSo... the "beetle-headed, flap-eared knave" (thank you Shakespeare!) is leaving politics. 'bout time.
ReplyDelete'a dishonest or unscrupulous man.'
DeleteDavid Duke Cou-SINS Spawn?
ReplyDeletere·sem·blance? un·can·ny!
"Duke joined the Reform Party in 1999 while working for Pat Buchanan's 2000 presidential campaign. Duke and Buchanan would both leave the party after the election."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Duke
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society
DeleteJe$u$ BULL$HITers!
@1:41 UTAH WINNING!?
Delete"Mitt Romney keeps dropping hints he's running for Senate — here's how the 70-year-old went from the world of investing to saving the Olympics and losing the presidency twice"
http://www.businessinsider.com/mitt-romney-career-possible-utah-senator-2018-2
https://patribotics.blog/2017/05/11/sources-russia-probe-means-president-hatch-rico-case-against-gop/
President Oorin Hatch~it~MAN
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Joe LIEberMan or NEWt gingRICH or RMonEy
I didn't see a photo of him and his little white mohawk he sported for so long. That's ok. I'll be fine never seeing him or hearing his name again.
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