Gowdy To Trump: Recognizing Russian Meddling Won’t Delegitimize Your Win

House Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C. speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 3, 2015, about former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton using her ... House Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C. speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 3, 2015, about former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton using her personal email account for official business. A spokesman for Clinton says there was nothing illegal or improper about her use of a personal email account during her time as Secretary of State, rather than a government-issued email address. The practice could hamper efforts to archive official government documents required by law. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) MORE LESS
Start your day with TPM.
Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter

House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) on Monday released a blistering statement reiterating that Russia interfered in the 2016 election and calling on a number of officials on President Trump’s team to inform him that “it is possible to conclude Russia interfered with out election in 2016 without delegitimizing his electoral success.”

Read Gowdy’s full statement below:

Russia is not our friend. Russia attempted to undermine the fundamentals of our democracy, impugn the reliability of the 2016 election, and sow the seeds of discord among Americans. Our intelligence community, including the current one, concluded this, as did the Majority House Intelligence Committee report, as did our fellow Americans who served on grand juries which returned true bills on two separate occasions. I am confident former CIA Director and current Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, DNI Dan Coats, Ambassador Nikki Haley, FBI Director Chris Wray, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and others will be able to communicate to the President it is possible to conclude Russia interfered with our election in 2016 without delegitimizing his electoral success.

Latest Livewire

Notable Replies

  1. ”Gowdy To Trump: Recognizing Russian Meddling Won’t Delegitimize Your Win.”

    Except, of course, for the glaringly-obvious fact that its whole purpose was…you know…to make Trump win.

  2. LoL Gowdy.

    There is no Trump presidency without Putin. The reason Trump can’t take this position is because it won’t stand up to scrutiny nor will Putin tolerate it. Putin helped Trump with clear demands. He expects Trump to deliver. Trump has done everything he can to deliver on the Putin agenda. They have spent weeks strategizing on how to counter the revelation of evidence exposing their corrupt relationship.

    Btw, there is also no Mike Pence Vice Presidency or Mike Pence political career without Putin either. Paul Manafort put him on that ticket. So, for those who think that Pence would be any less of a puppet than Trump, think again. Pence might be a better, more clever puppet, because he’s so damn fucking needy.

  3. “Now if you’ll excuse me I need to run off and impeach the guy with oversight authority on the investigation.

    BRB!!”

  4. It wont delegitimize his win? Actually, it will. In fact its been since day one.

  5. Avatar for clare clare says:

    Oh, Trey, Trey, Trey … All the kings horses and all the king’s men, can’t put Humpty back together again.

Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com

56 more replies

Participants

Avatar for ajm Avatar for playitagainrowlf Avatar for bikerdad Avatar for Lacuna-Synecdoche Avatar for pdxer Avatar for inversion Avatar for lastroth Avatar for stradivarius50t3 Avatar for gmccpa Avatar for zrx1100 Avatar for kitty Avatar for pshah Avatar for texastwostep Avatar for zach Avatar for chlarry Avatar for feelingthebern Avatar for natasbob Avatar for msc00 Avatar for eisenst Avatar for skeptical Avatar for gregor Avatar for atldrew Avatar for rascal_crone Avatar for captain_america

Continue Discussion
Masthead Masthead
Founder & Editor-in-Chief:
Executive Editor:
Managing Editor:
Deputy Editor:
Editor at Large:
General Counsel:
Publisher:
Head of Product:
Director of Technology:
Associate Publisher:
Front End Developer:
Senior Designer: