Trey Gowdy (R-SC), the chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, reportedly declined to appear on CNN’s “State of the Union” program Sunday to address allegations made by an ex-staffer of the committee.
The staffer, Bradley Podliska, who was an investigator on the committee for 10 months, told news outlets Saturday that he planned to file a federal lawsuit against the committee for wrongful termination.
Podliska said that he was terminated, in part, for refusing to focus his investigation on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
The committee responded to The New York Times‘ request for comment on Saturday in a letter.
“The committee vigorously denies all of his allegations,” the statement read. “Moreover, once legally permitted to do (sic), the committee stands ready to prove his termination was legal, justified and warranted — on multiple levels.”
CNN’s Dana Bash said Gowdy was invited on the program before she introduced her other guests that addressed the allegations against the committee.
“But first we would like to say we did invite the chairman of the Benghazi Committee, Trey Gowdy, to come and appear on this program this morning to respond but he declined,” Bash said.
Of course they don’t want to discuss it. This way they can continue to deny that this is all political.
Gowdy can run, but he can’t hide.
(More popcorn, please.)
The caption for this picture should be - This is the consequence of inbreeding!!! He is really creepy looking. I worked with a girl from Alabama who’s sister married her first cousin, and her two children looked just like Gowdy. Both of them died before they were 12,
Gowdy is transmogrifying -----
He’ll resemble RickScott .
When process is complete he’ll be the very spit and image of Voldemort.
SSsssssssssnakey Hisssssssssing.
He needs more time to think of a plausible talking point. Like maybe 100 years’ of time.
The Benghazi committee has always been about getting Hillary. Everyone knew that, just as they knew the Emperor has no clothes. The world just needed someone on the GOP side to spill the beans. Now two have.
The staffer making these allegations is a conservative Republican.
Once he finally got a little air time in his quest for the Speakership, McCarthy admitted the committee is all about getting Hillary, and then quit the Speaker race in disgrace in part for having committed that faux pas. The stink of that sequence of events strongly supports the narrative.
The narrative that this is political is like a raging river now, unstoppable and destroying anyone in its path. Gowdy may have decided that he’s just not capable of shifting the direction of the discussion, especially now that the narrative is actually driven by facts, as opposed to lies and deception. He doesn’t have the chops and he doesn’t have any facts. He’s smart enough to know he’ll get crucified by the likes of Dana Bash, and that’s pretty strong in itself because she’s a proven willing water carrier for these clowns in the past.