Trey Gowdy blasts Trump team ‘amnesia’ for Russia meetings

[Tony Stark]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trey-gowdy-blasts-trump-team-amnesia-russia-meetings-162739010.html

Trey Gowdy blasts Trump team ‘amnesia’ for Russia meetings

Dylan Stableford
Senior Editor
Yahoo NewsJuly 12, 2017

Donald Trump Jr.’s shifting explanation of an undisclosed preelection meeting with a Russian lawyer who he was told had incriminating information on Hillary Clinton is rankling lawmakers already struggling to pass any part of President Trump’s agenda.

Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., said on Fox News Tuesday night that he is troubled by “the amnesia of people that are in the Trump orbit.”

“Here we are beginning another week, this one in July, with a new revelation about Russia,” Gowdy said. “Someone close to the president needs to get everyone connected with that campaign in a room and say: From the time you saw ‘Doctor Zhivago’ until the moment you drank vodka with a guy named Boris, you list every single one of those, and we are going to turn them over to the special counsel. Because this drip, drip, drip is undermining the credibility of this administration.”


Gowdy — who led a two-year congressional investigation into Clinton’s handling of the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya — recently took over for outgoing Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, as chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

The committee is set to investigate Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey in the middle of the bureau’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the Trump campaign’s possible ties to Russia. (Gowdy already sits on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, which is conducting its own Russia probe.)

His comments come amid a growing firestorm over emails showing that Trump Jr. took the June 9, 2016, meeting at Trump Tower with Natalia Veselnitskaya, a lawyer with alleged ties to the Kremlin and its spy agency. Trump Jr., campaign chief Paul Manafort and top adviser and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner also attended the meeting, which was brokered by Robert Goldstone, a music publicist who had previously helped ink a business deal between President Trump and a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin.

The committee is set to investigate Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey in the middle of the bureau’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the Trump campaign’s possible ties to Russia. (Gowdy already sits on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, which is conducting its own Russia probe.)

His comments come amid a growing firestorm over emails showing that Trump Jr. took the June 9, 2016, meeting at Trump Tower with Natalia Veselnitskaya, a lawyer with alleged ties to the Kremlin and its spy agency. Trump Jr., campaign chief Paul Manafort and top adviser and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner also attended the meeting, which was brokered by Robert Goldstone, a music publicist who had previously helped ink a business deal between President Trump and a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin.

In his initial email to Trump Jr., Goldstone claimed a “Russian government lawyer” had “very high level and sensitive information” that was part of the Russian government’s support for the elder Trump’s candidacy.

“Thanks Rob, I appreciate that,” Trump Jr. replied. “If it’s what you say I love it, especially later in the summer.”

Trump Jr. posted the emails on his Twitter feed Tuesday morning after the New York Times had informed him they were set to publish them.

 

[Tsing Tao]

Will you people on the left please find something substantial and not hot air on this guy so we can put Pence in charge and ensure he is re-elected in 2020?

 

[fhl]

Donald Trump Jr.’s shifting explanation of an undisclosed preelection meeting with a Russian lawyer who he was told had incriminating information on Hillary Clinton is rankling lawmakers already struggling to pass any part of President Trump’s agenda.



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Because if CNN is talking about russia, how is congress supposed to debate and pass a bill like health care or taxes? It makes it impossible for them.

 

[Tony Stark]

Because if CNN is talking about russia, how is congress supposed to debate and pass a bill like health care or taxes? It makes it impossible for them.

Blame The Trump Crime Family for colluding with Russia and continually lying about it.

 

[Frederick Foresight]

“Here we are beginning another week, this one in July, with a new revelation about Russia,” Gowdy said. “Someone close to the president needs to get everyone connected with that campaign in a room and say: From the time you saw ‘Doctor Zhivago’ until the moment you drank vodka with a guy named Boris, you list every single one of those, and we are going to turn them over to the special counsel. Because this drip, drip, drip is undermining the credibility of this administration.”

Much as I dislike Gowdy, it's good that he finally put his foot down. Funny comment, too.

 

[Frederick Foresight]

so we can put Pence in charge and ensure he is re-elected in 2020?

 

[exGOPer]

Blame The Trump Crime Family for colluding with Russia and continually lying about it.

The same people who want something 'substantial' were giddy posting about the debunked Seth Rich conspiracy theory, but now they only want 'substantial' stories as if catching Trump Jr. in a massive lie about collusion isnt substantial.

 

[Frederick Foresight]

Will you people on the left please find something substantial and not hot air on this guy

Funny how an increasing number of Republicans in government are getting more and more concerned about all this "hot air."

 

[AAAintheBeltway]

Will you people on the left please find something substantial and not hot air on this guy so we can put Pence in charge and ensure he is re-elected in 2020?

I can almost guarantee that if Trump is run out of office, the republicans will not retain the presidency and probably will lose both houses of congress. It probably would mark the end of the republican party.

Voters see them, accurately I might add, as lying shills for corporate America who don't give a crap about ordinary americans and who will eagerly sell them out when told to do so by the donor class.

The establishment's sudden enthusiasm for Pence is based on their view of him as a typical religious right dimwit who can be convinced, ala Bush jr, to follow more neocon treachery.

Reciting "conservative" talking points and gushing over how wonderful the Constitution is will no longer cut it. Too many voters have been red-pilled. Trump was our last hope. Take that away and things could get ugly quickly.

 

[fhl]