Trey Gowdys effort to throw cold water on Trump-Russia collusion backfires spectacularly

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

During a House Intelligence Committee Hearing on Tuesday, former CIA Director John Brennan confirmed he’s aware of communications between the Trump campaign and Russian officials that sparked concern about possible collusion.

Brennan declined to get into details, saying that specifics about the people involved and what was said remain classified. But he said he “encountered and am aware of information and intelligence that revealed contacts and interactions between Russian officials and U.S. persons involved in the Trump campaign that I was concerned about because of known Russian efforts to suborn such individuals, and it raised questions in my mind whether or not the Russians were able to gain the cooperation of those individuals.”

That “information and intelligence,” Brennan added, led to the FBI’s counterintelligence probe of the Trump campaign, which began in July 2016.

Brennan was responding to a question from Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) about evidence of collusion that seemed intended to highlight that no such evidence exists. His effort backfired. During House Intelligence Committee hearing about the Russia probe, Gowdy has repeatedly tried to change the topic from possible collusion involving the Trump campaign to leaks.

https://thinkprogress.org/cia-director-brennan-trump-campaign-possible-collusion-with-russia-45f9cb3d1d38

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I just noticed that Gowdy's head comes to kind of a point, like a Conehead.

Not that that's relevant, just an observation. I do like the way Brennan peed on his campfire.

[skylucy]

4. LOL!

[winstars]

12. Hey Gowdy! You have a really good point. Unfortunately, its the top of your head!!!

I think I first used that joke in the 4th grade.


Still works.

[CentralMass]

53. Yes :-)"You have a point there, keep a hat on it ans no one will notice."

[winstars]

56. OMG! Thats the original joke. I have been saying it wrong for 30 years! Thanks

[SunSeeker]

10. "Brennan peed on his campfire."

[procon]

16. Yeah, his skulls noticeably narrower than normal human physiology. nt

[Tanuki]

17. Or a macaque

[Achilleaze]

19. Pointy-Headed KGOP cover-up Comrades suck

I'm just sayin...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

24. Do you suppose he's really from France?

[Alice11111]

36. Gowdy is almost as ugly on the outside as he is on the inside

[narnian60]

46. Touche.

[reflection]

31. Oh yeah, someone went ham with the forceps during that birth. n/t

[katmondoo]

32. Cone head is the Republican obnoxous guy on CNN

He is always on Anderson Cooper, I think Anderson hates him too

[Maven]

35. I call him the Inbred Pinhead partly for that reason.

Figuratively speaking, he's also a fucking pinhead.

[annabanana]

38. actual pin head, (but not cool like Zippy)

[George II]

44. I think he may have had some kind of an accident at some time....

He's got unusually shiny and tight skin and his nose looks like it's been surgically reconstructed.

If so, that may be why he's so damned crabby all the time. I don't think I've ever seen him smile.

[Scarsdale]

47. His head

comes to a point, too bad his questions do not! Little prick learned NOTHING from his waste of time Benghazi investigation.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

49. Looks more like a bowling pin to me...

[BHDem53]

50. And like

Pinocchio it grows longer and more pointy every time he lies.

[catbyte]

57. I've always thought they could be separated at birth:

[skylucy]

2. It was entertaining to watch Gowdy ask BS questions and then get answers that

he didn't want!!

[Alice11111]

39. Shows how stupid he is to ask those witnesses

those questions. Generally speaking, everyone knows you don't ask an adverse witnee an open ended question.

Now, I'm thinking he is as stupid as he is ugly.

[Cary]

3. That dude creeps me out

[Elwood P Dowd]

6. Guy looked like Trump's ass smeared vaseline all over his face.

Especially on his crooked nose.

[Grammy23]

34. I said the same thing to my husband this a.m.

Why does Trey always look so greasy? Is it sweat? Grease? He needs someone from makeup to give him the once over before stepping in front of cameras.

[Scarsdale]

48. Blank stare

slack jawed little creep. The gop attracts the strangest looking people. They must feel at home with the rest of the circus freaks like tRump, McConnell, Ryan etc.

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Well well,the GOP top Management is truly

worried when they put Gowdy and his low info brain on the job. Brennan eats twits like this for lunch.

[underpants]

7. Gowdy will be the hero of RW media tonight

simply because he said "no evidence" the required number of times. They'll cut the footage to nothing but him and claim victory.

[NewJeffCT]

25. sounds about par for the course

For Fox News.

[SunSeeker]

8. Yep. Gowdy violated the first rule of cross-examination.

Never ask a question you don't know the answer to.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. Gowdy is a former prosecutor and he should have known better.

I guess he must have forgotten that thing.

[Wounded Bear]

41. Maybe if he was good at it, he'd still be doing it...

After the Benghazi debacle, I wonder why the Repubs put him out there?

[justiceischeap]

22. Or he knows the answer and is looking for a sound bite nt

[SunSeeker]

58. Well, he is stupid enough to think he knew the answer.

But he obviously did not get the sound bite he was expecting.

[Alice11111]

42. I think his ego clouded his brain. Funny though, how these

Guys go for all of the publicity they can get, then several months later, they are running from the spotlight...
Nunes, Chaffetz, Gulianni....

[GallopingGhost]

9. These Repubs are a joke.

There is proof of collusion and everybody knows it.

The squirrel licking his nuts in my front yard this morning knows the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians to steal the election.

[dhill926]

13. dude is in WAY over his head....

same as when he tried to interrogate HRC.

[Amaryllis]

14. You'd think leadership would pick smarter people for intel committee.

[Elwood P Dowd]

18. Because repukes won't do ANYTHING based on smarts, common sense, or intelligence.

Everything is about money, power, politics, etc.. No room left for anything else.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. They are drawing from a shallow pool. Especially for the Science Committee. . . nt

[Amaryllis]

27. I was thinking of that...Rush Holt was a physicist but they stole that seat from him. Twice.

[american_ideals]

23. First criterion is safe district, not smarts

That's why Nunes and Gowdy - they are in very safe super red districts.

Leadership wants them to put party before country with no worries about losing their seats.

Except in a wave election. Which 2018 is shaping up to be. Keep lying, GOP. Fox news can't protect you forever.

[deurbano]

26. That and the proven ability to grandstand.

[wishstar]

15. Gowdy also got wrong response about Steele Dossier

Last edited Tue May 23, 2017, 03:23 PM - Edit history (1)

I guess he was hoping Brennan would either discredit or describe Steele Dossier as an unreliable source, but instead Brennan definitely said that the Steel Dossier was not considered or involved in any way with investigations Brennan was involved with although he had heard that aspects of Dossier were being looked into by FBI.

[QC]

20. If this politics thing doesn't work out he can always go back to his earlier career.

[Honeycombe8]

28. They tried that at the Comey hearings, too. Bwahahahahaha. The truth will out. nt

[NoMoreRepugs]

29. Howdy Doody and other Rethugs on these committee's never seem

to tire of getting taken to the woodshed and getting their ass beat.

[kytngirl]

30. I just don't understand.

Where are the republicans' sense of patriotism? Do they not have any loyalty for America at all? How can you spend time and resources to become a servant of the people and then show complete fealty to a traitor and none for the people who elected you? Can somebody please help me to understand this?!

[annabanana]

40. Any sense of patriotism they ever had had a price tag.

It seemed an easy way for a dim bulb to get rich... and it was.

[RandomAccess]

43. Hive mind plus

Lots of exposure themselves --

Link to tweet

(THREAD) 1. Why Mitch McConnell is sabotaging Russia investigation–dark money trail leads right to him–Blavatnik, is pals with Putin crony Vekselberg

Link to tweet

$100k Donation from Trump to Ryan Super PAC Looms Large as House Speaker Leads Impeachment Defense
http://reverbpress.com/politics/100k-donation-trump-ryan-looms-large-speaker-leads-defense-trump/


GOP super PAC linked to Paul Ryan used illegally hacked material against Democratic House candidates: report
The New York Times reports The Congressional Leadership Fund used info leaked by Russian hackers in campaign ads
http://www.salon.com/2016/12/14/gop-super-pac-linked-to-paul-ryan-used-illegally-hacked-material-against-democratic-house-candidates-report/


There's more, but from sources I've decided not to share here any more.

[Javaman]

33. I always get the suspicion that gowdy is part of the coverup. nt

[ashling]

37. During the campaign

Trump bragged that he had better intellegence than the other side ... I guess we know where he was getting it.

[titaniumsalute]

45. Great question Trey

Thanks for asking...you weird looking weirdly specimen of fecal matter.

[Justice]

54. should all tweet to trey to thank you for asking question

(@TGowdySC)

[titaniumsalute]

55. Done and great idea (I'm Titanium Salute)

[miyazaki]

51. Weren't the Sleestacks the bad guys?

[onecent]

52. I want to slice Gowdys head off his neck,.....He is AWFUL!!!

[ravencalling]

59. Trey is an alien

Extraterrestrial type reptilian with final agenda of supplying food to his species in form of elderly poor and children. Russian collusion is nothing compared to Republican collusion with said aliens designed to provide a steady supply of Bubbas for breeding program and food research. Grand plan is to speed up earth climate change so that species will be able to roam above ground without their specially heated human skin suits where they are at times too easily spotted due to human primal sense that there is something not quite right.