Trey Gowdy is out
Even as it was emerging last week that Donald Trump’s current criminal defense attorney Rudy Giuliani was the target of a federal criminal investigation for his role in Trump’s Ukraine scandal, the news emerged that Trump was trying to hire Trey Gowdy as his new outside counsel. Now it turns out the whole thing has gone completely sideways.
On the day that Donald Trump was trying to hire Trey Gowdy, conflicting news reports kept emerging as to whether Gowdy had taken the job or turned him down. Now we’re getting a better understanding of the internal chaos that led to conflicting information surfacing.
The New York Times is now revealing that Trump did hire Gowdy, and they both had the expectation that Gowdy could start immediately, because they didn’t think the House ethics rules against lobbying would stand in the way. But just minutes after it became publicly known that he was taking the job, Gowdy’s law firm decided that he wasn’t allowed to take the gig until next year. Somewhere in there, Fox News fired Gowdy because it couldn’t have Trump’s lawyer as a paid commentator.
Trey Gowdy ended up not getting the Trump gig, and losing his Fox News gig. Donald Trump ended up not getting Gowdy as his lawyer, and losing Gowdy as his on-air apologist. Trump and his remaining henchmen are now screwing up in almost comical fashion as the pressure of impeachment gets to them.
