Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe reacted to Twitter&#8217;s release of internal company documents late last week by saying that one of the key players in the social media company&#8217;s decision to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020 is &#8220;the Michael Phelps of gold medal winning performances when it comes to election interference.&#8221;
Ratcliffe made the remarks during an interview on Fox News Sunday night with Trey Gowdy.
Musk released internal company communications through journalist Matt Taibbi about the company’s censorship of the story and about how the company removed tweets at the behest of the Democratic Party, a decision that he made because he said it was “necessary to restore public trust” in the platform.
&#8220;Do you happen to remember, there was a letter signed by some so-called national security and intelligence officials warning that the Hunter Biden laptop might be Russian disinformation?&#8221; Gowdy asked. &#8220;Do you recall that?&#8221;
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&#8220;Yeah. So, Trey, as you know, not just me, but the Attorney General and the FBI director, we all put out statements back in October of 2020, alerting the American people that the Hunter Biden laptop was not Russian disinformation,&#8221; Ratcliffe responded. &#8220;And we did that, because we wanted the American people to be aware of the issues as they as they came up to an election, to be fully informed. And unfortunately, what we are seeing through what&#8217;s happened with Elon Musk and the Twitter files, is that the truth about this issue was suppressed and lies were amplified and lies in the form of election interference from the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, who said this was Russian disinformation and coordinated with former intelligence officials to amplify that lie through social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook.&#8221;
When asked about a Twitter employee James Baker&#8217;s role in all of this and whether it was the same James Baker who was at the FBI, Ratcliffe confirmed that it was the same person.
&#8220;So, the same James Baker that, to remind your viewers was general counsel for Jim Comey at the FBI, who helped write an exoneration memo for Hillary Clinton before she was ever interviewed by the FBI for having hundreds of classified emails on her server, that same James Baker then met with the Clinton campaign officials to hand carry evidence, supposed evidence about Russian collusion, the Steele dossier, the Alpha bank connections with the Trump campaign into the FBI and the Department of Justice to launch an investigation that went on for years,&#8221; Ratcliffe said. &#8220;That&#8217;s the same James Baker that ultimately at Twitter said statements from the FBI, the Department of Justice, and the Director of National Intelligence that say this is not Russian disinformation, apparently aren&#8217;t clear enough, and we need to suppress this.&#8221;
&#8220;So yeah, I think these Twitter files are revealing that you know, James Baker is the the Michael Phelps of gold medal winning performances when it comes to election interference,&#8221; he added.
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<blockquote>TREY GOWDY: Welcome back to Sunday Night in America. The threat from China is not going away. Our next guest warned us of that two years ago. What can or should be done about China? And do you remember the Hunter Biden laptop? Some self identified national security experts said it might be Russian disinformation. Turns out it was just liberal Twitter employees trying to help a Democrat win the presidency. So that&#8217;s our choice, Russian disinformation or electioneering by Twitter lawyers? Joining us now is the former Director of National Intelligence, a former congressman from the great state of Texas and a former United States Attorney, John Lee Ratcliffe. Director, let&#8217;s start with China. What concerns you the most? What&#8217;s the latest? What should our viewers be looking out for as it relates to China?
JOHN RATCLIFFE, FORMER DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE: Well, I would say, Trey, that we should be most concerned about the Biden foreign policy approach to our nation&#8217;s number one adversary. Look, you&#8217;ve mentioned the op-ed that I wrote two years ago, if anything, I underestimated the level and timing of China&#8217;s aggression. I mean, look, just four months ago, we had the Chinese Communist Party state-run media advocating to shoot down the plane carrying the Speaker of the House and members of Congress if they dared land on the island of Taiwan more than more than 100 miles from China&#8217;s border. You know, China views us as an enemy or an adversary and, you know, the the current administration keeps referring to China as a competitor. And you know, until we start to take this seriously and project strength, you know, the threat of China is going to continue to get greater as time goes by.
GOWDY: All right, Director, I want to switch gears: Do you happen to remember, there was a letter signed by some so-called national security and intelligence officials warning that the Hunter Biden laptop might be Russian disinformation? Do you recall that?
RATCLIFFE: Yeah. So, Trey, as you know, not just me, but the Attorney General and the FBI director, we all put out statements back in October of 2020, alerting the American people that the Hunter Biden laptop was not Russian disinformation. And we did that, because we wanted the American people to be aware of the issues as they as they came up to an election, to be fully informed. And unfortunately, what we are seeing through what&#8217;s happened with Elon Musk and the Twitter files, is that the truth about this issue was suppressed and lies were amplified and lies in the form of election interference from the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, who said this was Russian disinformation and coordinated with former intelligence officials to amplify that lie through social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook.
GOWDY: All right. So, director, when you said it was not Russian disinformation, all right, and the FBI backed you up when you said that, you&#8217;re the head of the intelligence community and you said, &#8216;hey, look, no offense to Adam Schiff. This is not Russian disinformation&#8217;, the FBI backs you up. In some articles that I read, there was a Twitter employee by the name of James Baker that was involved in the decision making to kind of suppress that content. There was also an FBI General Counsel named James Baker, that could not possibly be the same one could it?
RATCLIFFE: Oh, you know, it is Trey. So the same James Baker that, to remind your viewers was general counsel for Jim Comey at the FBI, who helped write an exoneration memo for Hillary Clinton before she was ever interviewed by the FBI for having hundreds of classified emails on her server, that same James Baker then met with the Clinton campaign officials to hand carry evidence, supposed evidence about Russian collusion, the Steele dossier, the Alpha bank connections with the Trump campaign into the FBI and the Department of Justice to launch an investigation that went on for years. That&#8217;s the same James Baker that ultimately at Twitter said statements from the FBI, the Department of Justice, and the Director of National Intelligence that say this is not Russian disinformation, apparently aren&#8217;t clear enough, and we need to suppress this. So yeah, I think these Twitter files are revealing that you know, James Baker is the the Michael Phelps of gold medal winning performances when it comes to election interference.
Related: <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3230682/china-military-power-report-examines-changes-in-beijings-strategy/">Pentagon: China Blitzed Past U.S. Estimates For Nuclear Buildup, Could Have 1,000 Warheads By 2030</a></blockquote>

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Former DNI John Ratcliffe On ‘Twitter Files’: James Baker An Olympic Champ On Interfering In Elections

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Former &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; anchor <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/chris-wallace/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chris Wallace&#8217;s</a> CNN show debuted with lackluster ratings — losing big to his former network&#8217;s Sunday evening show hosted by former Congressman Trey Gowdy (R-SC).
According to a <a href="https://radaronline.com/p/chris-wallace-cnn-show-premiere-bombs-ratings-jeff-zucker/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from RadarOnline, Wallace&#8217;s much-touted interview show — titled &#8220;Who&#8217;s Talking to Chris Wallace?&#8221; — racked up only 43,800 viewers in the key 25-54 age demographic. Wallace scored just 401,000 total viewers during his show, which aired in the 7 p.m. ET hour.
In comparison, the former South Carolina Congressman hosted &#8220;Sunday Night in America with Trey Gowdy&#8221; — and pulled in more than triple Wallace&#8217;s total viewers with over 1.3 million. He also nearly doubled Wallace&#8217;s number in the key demographic, racking up 78,000 viewers aged 25-54.
&#8220;Total Bomb!&#8221; @johnnydollar01 shared the news. &#8220;Chris Wallace&#8217;s CNN Show Premiere Tanks, Pulls Only 44k Viewers In Key Demo. The program was down double digits across every category vs the 2022 average. On Fox @TGowdySC scored a massive 1.3M viewers with 78k in the key 25-54 age demo &#8230;&#8221;
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Total Bomb! Chris Wallace&#39;s CNN Show Premiere Tanks, Pulls Only 44k Viewers In Key Demo The program was down double digits across every category vs the 2022 average. On Fox <a href="https://twitter.com/TGowdySC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TGowdySC</a> scored a massive 1.3M viewers with 78k in the key 25-54 age demo&#8230;<a href="https://t.co/kjyha5fZPN">https://t.co/kjyha5fZPN</a>
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Critics were quick to pile on Wallace — who abruptly left &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; in December of 2021 — suggesting that perhaps he was beginning to wish that he had stayed put.
&#8220;FoxNews made Chris Wallace, didn’t need him. Ratings don’t lie,&#8221; Mike Cernovich <a href="https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1574584902334369792" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>.
Wallace initially said when he <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/i-want-to-try-something-new-chris-wallace-is-leaving-fox-news-sunday-effective-immediately/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">left the network</a>, he was just looking for a change.
&#8220;After 18 years, I have decided to leave FOX. I want to try something new, to go beyond politics, to all of the things I’m interested in,&#8221; he explained during his final &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; broadcast. &#8220;I’m ready for a new adventure, and I hope you’ll check it out. And so, for the last time dear friends, that’s it for today.&#8221;
Wallace <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/unsustainable-chris-wallace-reveals-why-he-had-to-leave-fox-news/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">later claimed</a> that he had found the situation at FOX — particularly in the wake of January 6th — to be &#8220;unsustainable.&#8221;
&#8220;I’m fine with opinion: conservative opinion, liberal opinion,” Wallace said. “But when people start to question the truth — Who won the 2020 election? Was Jan. 6 an insurrection? — I found that unsustainable. I spent a lot of 2021 looking to see if there was a different place for me to do my job,&#8221; he said.
Within days of leaving FOX, Wallace had announced his plan to <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/what-evidence-do-you-have-chris-wallace-throws-down-with-nikole-hannah-jones-on-cnn/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">move to CNN+</a> — but the streaming service launched, floundered, and folded in less than a month.

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Chris Wallace Show Tanks On CNN — Loses Big To Trey Gowdy On  Fox News, His Former Network

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Fox News host and former South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy blasted &#8220;The View&#8221; co-host Whoopi Goldberg for the insensitive comments she made about the Holocaust and her repeated failed attempts to walk them back.
Appearing as a panelist on Fox&#8217;s <a href="https://video.foxnews.com/v/6294817643001#sp=show-clips">&#8220;Outnumbered&#8221;</a> Tuesday afternoon, Gowdy ripped <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sparks-fly-on-the-view-after-whoopi-goldberg-claims-the-holocaust-was-not-about-race">Goldberg</a> for saying &#8220;the Holocaust [wasn’t] about race&#8221; during Monday&#8217;s episode of &#8220;The View,&#8221; then <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whoopi-doubles-down-on-holocaust-remarks-despite-apology-they-had-issues-with-ethnicity-not-with-race">walking back her comments</a> with a non-apology on &#8220;The Late Show&#8221; with Stephen Colbert Monday night, then <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-misspoke-whoopi-goldberg-backtracks-again-on-holocaust-remarks">apologizing again</a> on &#8220;The View&#8221; Tuesday morning.
&#8220;You know, I have a couple of pretty simple rules in life,&#8221; Gowdy said. &#8220;Don&#8217;t ever compare anything to slavery, don&#8217;t ever compare anything to the Holocaust, and if you&#8217;re a man, don&#8217;t compare anything to pregnancy. That&#8217;s rule number one. Rule number two: if you&#8217;re going to apologize, then just apologize. Don&#8217;t explain it, don&#8217;t try to mitigate it, apologize and ask for forgiveness. And number three, as a culture, we have got to do a better job of figuring out who is just famous and who actually knows what he or she is talking about, &#8217;cause sometimes we confuse the two.&#8221;
Co-host Harris Faulkner reacted audibly. &#8220;Wow, wow, who got hit by that dropped mic?&#8221; Faulkner said.
Shortly afterward, the host played clips of Goldberg defending rapper Jay-Z in 2014, saying he should have been allowed to hit back at sister-in-law Solange Knowles during a fight in an elevator at the time. Gowdy blasted those comments as well. &#8220;She and I were raised in different homes,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I grew up with three sisters. I would not be here with you today if I had ever raised a hand towards one of my three sisters, and my dad didn&#8217;t care what they did to me. So it&#8217;s not just chivalry, it&#8217;s biology. Men don&#8217;t hit women, and it doesn&#8217;t matter what the woman has done to you.&#8221;
&#8220;I actually like Whoopi,&#8221; Gowdy added. &#8220;She was the nicest person to me on &#8216;The View&#8217; when I went on, which ain&#8217;t saying that much, but she was nice. But &#8230; those were two of the darkest chapters in the history of mankind, the Holocaust and slavery &#8230; so, Whoopi, act, but don&#8217;t weigh in on the Holocaust or slavery, or domestic violence. Just give all three of those a pass.&#8221;
Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro also ripped Goldberg for her comments in a Twitter thread Monday.
&#8220;Whoopi Goldberg explaining that the Holocaust wasn&#8217;t about race because these were &#8216;two groups of white people&#8217; isn&#8217;t just insipid, it&#8217;s insidious. It&#8217;s downplaying the minority status of Jews in order to uphold bull**** intersectional arguments that justify anti-Semitism today,&#8221; Shapiro tweeted. &#8220;The intersectional argument is that Jews are white people, and that Jews are disproportionately successful thanks to &#8216;white supremacy.&#8217; Because racism is &#8216;animus plus power,&#8217; and Jews are powerful because they are white, anti-Semitism from non-white supremacists isn&#8217;t bigotry.&#8221;
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The intersectional argument is that Jews are white people, and that Jews are disproportionately successful thanks to &#8220;white supremacy.&#8221; Because racism is &#8220;animus plus power,&#8221; and Jews are powerful because they are white, anti-Semitism from non-white supremacists isn&#8217;t bigotry.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1488248200968523778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 31, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The intersectional argument is that Jews are white people, and that Jews are disproportionately successful thanks to &#8220;white supremacy.&#8221; Because racism is &#8220;animus plus power,&#8221; and Jews are powerful because they are white, anti-Semitism from non-white supremacists isn&#8217;t bigotry.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1488248200968523778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 31, 2022</a></blockquote>
&#8220;Anti-Semitism, in this theory, is only present when it springs from actual white supremacists,&#8221; Shapiro continued. &#8220;Other acts of anti-Semitism are just a reflection of the dispossessed lashing out against those who have more institutional power.&#8221;
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Anti-Semitism, in this theory, is only present when it springs from actual white supremacists. Other acts of anti-Semitism are just a reflection of the dispossessed lashing out against those who have more institutional power.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1488249337687728128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 31, 2022</a></blockquote>
&#8220;The attempt to abstract the causes of the Holocaust from Jew-hatred to &#8220;man&#8217;s inhumanity to man&#8221; is actually a way of obscuring and covering for anti-Semitism,&#8221; Shapiro wrote.
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The attempt to abstract the causes of the Holocaust from Jew-hatred to &#8220;man&#8217;s inhumanity to man&#8221; is actually a way of obscuring and covering for anti-Semitism.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1488250278537314311?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 31, 2022</a></blockquote>

Rep. Trey Gowdy

Trey Gowdy Drops Mic On Whoopi Goldberg After Holocaust Comments

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On Sunday night, in the wake of the Waukesha murder of six people at a Christmas parade, Fox News host Trey Gowdy blistered the leftist DA’s and prosecutors who have made it easier for criminals to post bail and be released, snapping, “We don’t need prosecutors to react after there are six bodies laying on a parade route; we need prosecutors and politicians who prioritize public safety beforehand. And there are still those on the Left calling for lower bonds,” adding, “If you think $1,000 was the right bond amount for a career offender who ran over someone in early November so he could be out of jail in time to run over dozens of people at a Christmas parade, then say so. Just make sure you say it loud enough where we can all hear you.”
Gowdy began, “No matter how old we are, no matter how old we get, we remember the excitement of seeing Sant Claus as a child. And because we remember, we do everything in our power to make sure that magic is preserved for the children of today. We hold them on our shoulders so they can get a better view; we stand in the cold; we march in bands or dance in parades because we want children to experience the same joy we experienced as a child. “
“It&#8217;s timeless; it’s a generational connection; it’s a gift the old give the young,” he noted. “Waiting along the parade route with the cold wind whipping because Santa Claus is coming. And then the question comes: Is that him? Is that Santa Claus? Is he finally coming?”
Then he turned to the murders in Waukesha, Wisconsin:
<blockquote>Last Sunday night in Wisconsin it wasn’t Santa Claus coming down the parade route. He doesn’t drive that fast and he isn’t a career criminal out on bond. It was [the suspect], a lifelong criminal who’s been hurting people for most of his life. [The suspect] was on the sex offender registry, out on bond again, running over parents and grandparents and children.</blockquote>
“This night of joy in Wisconsin ended with agonizing grief, and then the grief quickly turned to anger because [the suspect] never should have been driving last Sunday night,” Gowdy said with genuine anger. “He should have been in jail. Days before you and I learned he ran over people at a Christmas parade, prosecutors in Wisconsin already knew he had run over someone with his car. Prosecutors knew that he had a lifetime of violence and bail-jumping and disregarding the law, but Wisconsin prosecutors recommended a $1,000 bond. $1,000 is all the security these prosecutors needed to let [the suspect] back out on the street. “
“And now, six body bags later, prosecutors finally concede that bond was too low,” he said, then snapped, “We already know that. $1,000 was too low when you set it. Now, after six people are dead, and dozens more injured, you set the bond at $5 million. So what’s different now? He was a career criminal before he killed six people at a Christmas parade. We don’t need prosecutors to react after there are six bodies laying on a parade route; we need prosecutors and politicians who prioritize public safety beforehand.”
“And there are still those on the Left calling for lower bonds,” he continued. “There&#8217;s always been a battle, a division if you will, in this country between people of good conscience and the small segment like [the suspect] who can’t ever seem to follow the law. What’s different now is there are politicians openly siding with the criminal element. They can&#8217;t ever bring themselves to talk about the victims of crime, only the perpetrators of crime.”
He challenged, “If you think $1,000 was the right bond amount for a career offender who ran over someone in early November so he could be out of jail in time to run over dozens of people at a Christmas parade, then say so. Just make sure you say it loud enough where we can all hear you.”
He concluded with a call to action for conservative voters: “And then the rest of us need to remember for all the Novembers to come so we can make sure these criminal sympathizers and apologists masquerading as politicians and prosecutors are never in a position to influence policy again in this country.”
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‘Six Body Bags Later, Prosecutors Finally Concede That Bond Was Too Low’: Trey Gowdy Hammers Leftists On Bail Reform

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Several Fox News hosts mocked a recent New York Times op-ed detailing possible precautions families could take as they gathered for the Thanksgiving holiday.
Former White House press secretary <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/kayleigh-mcenany-lands-co-host-position-at-fox-news/">Kayleigh McEnany</a> — along with co-host Emily Compagno and Julie Banderas — ridiculed suggestions such as keeping young children away from older adults during meals and asking children to eat fast and wear a mask in the house before and after eating.
McEnany read a section of the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/17/opinion/covid-thanksgiving-holiday-risk.html">article</a> aloud during the broadcast, noting that it was formatted as a series of reader questions followed by answers from &#8220;experts.&#8221;
The first question she read was from a reader who was concerned about hosting a gathering where not all of the kids present would be fully vaccinated — although the adults were and some of the kids had been given their first doses prior to the meal.
The answer, according to Virginia Tech engineering professor Linsey Marr:
<blockquote>As the kids will not be fully vaccinated until two weeks after their second shot, I think some care is warranted, especially because some attendees are 65 and older and thus at greater risk of more serious breakthrough infections. You could have the kids wear masks, eat quickly and stay away from the older adults when eating.</blockquote>
Banderas&#8217; reaction was immediate. &#8220;Oh, my God,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;This is pure idiocy,&#8221; McEnany agreed. &#8220;Make the kids eat quick.&#8221;
&#8220;First of all my kids don’t eat quickly,&#8221; Banderas added, saying that it would never work to try that in her home. &#8220;We are there for hours and I will make them sit and I will wait until their plates are empty &#8230; I guess I’m going to infect my family members with Covid because I’m not making my kids eat quickly.&#8221;
&#8220;When you slave over all that food you don’t want your kids sloughing it down, you want your kids to take their bite slowly and enjoyed. The hard labor that my mother will be putting in towards our Thanksgiving feast since I don&#8217;t cook, I wouldn&#8217;t do that to my mom,&#8221; Banderas said.
&#8220;I thought it was parody,&#8221; McEnany continued, noting that the subtitle for that particular questions was, &#8216;Help, the kids are coming inside.&#8217; I mean, amazing.&#8221;
&#8220;You can’t make this up. Truth is stranger than fiction nowadays. A New York Times headline is the same as The Onion headlines, you can’t tell them apart,&#8221; Compagno added, arguing that the real tragedy was that instead of focusing on family and giving thanks, people were resorting to writing to newspapers for advice on what they could do to keep their families safe and healthy.
&#8220;Why isn&#8217;t the government answering the question? I thought Dr. Fauci had all the answers,&#8221; she said.
Guest co-host and former Rep. <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/trey-gowdy-rips-push-to-defund-police-single-dumbest-idea-i-have-ever-heard/">Trey Gowdy</a> (R-S.C.) said he was actually in favor of anything that could speed up the <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/nfl-to-require-video-surveillance-of-team-facilities-tightening-covid-protocols-for-thanksgiving/">Thanksgiving</a> meal — although his reasoning had nothing to do with concern over the possible spread of COVID-19.
&#8220;I hate to be a contrarian, but I am all for whatever gets the meal over the quickest so I want everybody to eat and not have to – I have three sisters, and whoever said God doesn’t give you more than you can handle doesn’t have three sisters,&#8221; Gowdy said, prompting laughs from the others. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want people fighting. They can go watch Leonardo DiCaprio with my wife and I’ll go watch Dak Prescott, but let’s get it over with as quickly as possible.&#8221;

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On Fox News Monday, former Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) ripped into the impeachment case that Democrats will use against former President Donald Trump starting on Tuesday as the Senate starts its impeachment trial, saying that the Democrats will not be successful in convicting the former president.
&#8220;Trey, at that vote that was taken in the Senate a couple of weeks back on Rand Paul&#8217;s motion, 45 senators voted that an impeachment trial post-presidency is unconstitutional,&#8221; Fox News reporter John Roberts said. &#8220;Do you expect that a trial over the coming days will suddenly cause enough of those senators to change their mind that they might actually convict the president?&#8221;
&#8220;I do not John. And I can tell you having done trial work when you start the trial with half of the jury thinking you shouldn&#8217;t even be there, you&#8217;re not going to win,&#8221; Gowdy responded. &#8220;None of those 45 will change their mind.&#8221;
&#8220;I think the Democrats in their haste to impeach this president for the second time picked the weakest of their arguments,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I&#8217;m not suggesting they would have been successful on another argument. But a much better argument is okay, you were surprised that the siege took place. What did you do once you learned that it was happening? That is the better impeachment article, is what did the President do once the siege began, but they didn&#8217;t want to do that. So what you&#8217;re going to see next week on both sides, frankly, the defense will do this, too. You&#8217;re going to see these violent images, and then transposed above that will be the words of the president even though they&#8217;re not connected in time. It&#8217;s all for the court of public opinion. Nancy Pelosi admitted that last week is for the court of public opinion. It&#8217;s not for the 100 senators.&#8221;
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<blockquote>SANDRA SMITH, FOX NEWS HOST:  And the second impeachment trial of former President Trump begins tomorrow in the Senate. The House charged him with incitement of insurrection for his role in the deadly capital Riot on January 6.
JOHN ROBERTS, FOX NEWS HOST: As lawmakers prepare for the start of the impeachment trial some are asking, what&#8217;s the point now that Donald Trump is out of office and some questioning whether or not the trial is even constitutional. Here to weigh in, Fox News contributor and former House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy. Trey, at that vote that was taken in the Senate a couple of weeks back on Rand Paul&#8217;s motion, 45 senators voted that an impeachment trial post presidency is unconstitutional. Do you expect that a trial over the coming days will suddenly cause enough of those senators to change their mind that they might actually convict the president?
TREY GOWDY: I do not John. And I can tell you having done trial work when you start the trial with half of the jury thinking you shouldn&#8217;t even be there, you&#8217;re not going to win. None of those 45 will change their mind.
ROBERTS: We heard that from the president&#8217;s lawyers earlier today and sort of their last glimpse of what their trial arguments are going to be before things open up tomorrow afternoon. I found this to be particularly intriguing. The only reference to force in the President&#8217;s speech on the sixth of January, was in taking pride in his administration&#8217;s creation of the Space Force. Mr. Trump never made any express or implied mention of weapons, the need for weapons or anything of the sort. It goes on to say, Mr. Trump used the word &#8220;fights&#8221; in the figurative sense of arguing or putting forth an extreme effort.
GOWDY: John, I think the Democrats in their haste to impeach this president for the second time picked the weakest of their arguments. I&#8217;m not suggesting they would have been successful on another argument. But a much better argument is okay, you were surprised that the siege took place. What did you do once you learn that it was happening? That is the better impeachment article is what did the President do once the siege began, but they didn&#8217;t want to do that. So what you&#8217;re going to see next week on both sides, frankly, the defense will do this, too. You&#8217;re going to see these violent images, and then transposed above that will be the words of the president even though they&#8217;re not connected in time. It&#8217;s all for the court of public opinion. Nancy Pelosi admitted that last week is for the court of public opinion. It&#8217;s not for the 100 senators.
ROBERTS: One of the things that we&#8217;re expecting the President&#8217;s defense team to bring up is statements that were made by Democrats over the past couple of years about Republicans, we put together a montage of that, this is what some of what at least, they&#8217;re expected to present at the trial. Listen here.
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ROBERTS: Could this be a case of Democrats be careful what you wish for?
GOWDY: Yeah, I mean, once again, they picked the dumbest of all impeachment articles. I mean you got Kamala Harris with Amy Coney Barrett, remember that mother of seven, and she&#8217;s telling the whole world that judge bear is coming after your health care and coming after your reproductive rights and coming after your voting rights. I mean, if you&#8217;re dumb enough to believe that that&#8217;s going to incite you &#8230; is play those clips and say, You know what, if you&#8217;re going to start penalizing hot political rhetoric, let&#8217;s do it for both sides.</blockquote>

Trey Gowdy Shreds Democrats’ Impeachment Case: ‘You’re Not Going To Win’

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Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) and former Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) both slammed the far-left&#8217;s new agenda of defunding police departments, saying that the idea is ludicrous and would undermine the entire justice system.
Appearing on Fox News&#8217;s &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures,&#8221; Scott said that the idea to &#8220;defund the police&#8221; was a &#8220;ridiculous idea.&#8221;
&#8220;It is not an idea whose time has come,&#8221; Scott continued. &#8220;It should never come. The absolute nation requires law and order. We need order in our streets, and the easiest way to have that is to have a strong presence of character-driven law enforcement officers.&#8221;
Scott added that he has introduced the George Floyd-Walter Scott Notification Act in an effort to get law enforcement agencies to report data on the use of force that leads to death so that lawmakers can get a clearer picture of what is going on throughout the country.
Later during the program Gowdy said, &#8220;Defunding the police is the single dumbest idea I have ever heard.&#8221;
&#8220;Who is going to process crime scenes, arrest bad people?&#8221; Gowdy continued. &#8220;Who is going to enforce any law, child sex abuse, homicide? Who is going to do it, if it&#8217;s not the police?&#8221;
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Great to discuss important issues with my friend, <a href="https://twitter.com/TGowdySC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TGowdySC</a>. Defunding the police would cause harm to our most vulnerable, but clearly, REFORM IS NEEDED! My upcoming George Floyd and Walter Scott Notification Act requires officers to report on shootings &amp; use of force incidents. <a href="https://t.co/c0g7nKOQU7">pic.twitter.com/c0g7nKOQU7</a>
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<blockquote>MARIA BARTIROMO, SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES ANCHOR: Virtually every major city in the country has seen protesters take to the streets these past weeks demanding justice and major reforms after the death of George Floyd.
A new rallying cry emerging: Defund the police.
Joining me right now is Republican Senator from South Carolina Tim Scott and former South Carolina Congressman and FOX News contributor Trey Gowdy.
Gentlemen, it&#8217;s great to see you this morning. Thanks very much for being here.
SEN. TIM SCOTT (R-SC): Thank you.
BARTIROMO: And I love the fact that the both of you are such good friends and have been such good friends for many years now.
What is your reaction to defund the police? And I also, Senator, want to take your attention to this op-ed that we saw in The Journal this week, &#8220;The Myth of Systemic Police Racism,&#8221; the myth.
They say: &#8220;George Floyd&#8217;s death in Minneapolis has revived the Obama era narrative that law enforcement is endemically racist. In fact, this charge of systemic police bias is &#8212; was wrong during the Obama years and remains wrong today. However sickening the video of Floyd&#8217;s arrest, it does not represent the 375 million annual contracts the police officers have with civilians.&#8221;
Your reaction.
SCOTT: Well, I&#8217;d say, on the defund police, what a ridiculous idea.
It is not an idea whose time has come. It should never come. The absolute nation requires law and order. We need order in our of streets, and the easiest way to have that is to have a strong presence of character-driven law enforcement officers.
As it relates to the op-ed, I had a chance to read Heather&#8217;s work. I start off by, bless her heart.
But I would say this to that op-ed. There&#8217;s no doubt in my mind that the average law enforcement officer in this nation is not a racist. There&#8217;s also no doubt in my mind that, when you look at the actual facts, black folks are 2.5 times more likely to be shot by an officer than whites.
There&#8217;s a lot missing in the articles. One of the reasons why I have proposed of legislation, the George Floyd-Walter Scott Notification Act, to get law enforcement agencies to report the data on the use of force that leads to death.
Without that actual information in an aggregate value, we don&#8217;t really know what&#8217;s going on. Fewer than 45 percent of agencies actually report their information to the FBI.
So, I think it would help all of us to get a clearer picture of what&#8217;s going on within the law enforcement community.
BARTIROMO: Trey.
TREY GOWDY, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: You know, Maria, within communities of color, the issues with law enforcement are much broader than who shoots whom.
That&#8217;s incredibly important, but it&#8217;s arrest rates. It&#8217;s sentencing disparities. It&#8217;s access to bond. It&#8217;s access to diversion programs.
Senator Scott mentioned being stopped by law enforcement. Maria, he was stopped seven times as a law &#8212; as a public official. Seven times, the man your viewers are looking at was stopped by law enforcement. He was stopped from entering the Capitol, even though he wears his Senate lapel pin and looks like a CPA.
I look like a gangster and don&#8217;t wear my House lapel pin, and I was never stopped. So, the problems are much broader than just who shoots whom.
BARTIROMO: OK.
GOWDY: Defunding the police is the single dumbest idea I have ever heard.
Who is going to process crime scenes, arrest bad people? Who is going to enforce any law, child sex abuse, homicide? Who is going to do it, if it&#8217;s not the police?
BARTIROMO: Yes, it&#8217;s a great point. Yes.
We want to continue this conversation. Tim Scott and Trey Gowdy are with me this morning.
We&#8217;re going to take a short break and come right back with this.
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BARTIROMO: Welcome back.
We are with two leaders of our community this morning, Senator Tim Scott and former Congressman Trey Gowdy.
Guys, I want to get your reaction to what the D.C. mayor had painted on the streets. And this is the Black Lives Matter mural which is on the road leading to the White House.
Do you think this is to honor the cause, or is this a message to President Trump, Senator?
SCOTT: It certainly is a &#8212; it certainly is a message to President Trump. And it&#8217;s a terrible message to our nation. It is polarizing, unnecessary, and unproductive.
The fact of the matter is that we certainly need to focus our attention on moving this country together, about healing. And that seemed to be in your face for one specific purpose, to be in his face.
That does not help the movement. It does not help the cause. It does not help the country. I found it to be really polarizing.
BARTIROMO: How are we going to bring this country together?
I know, Senator, you have been speaking with President Trump. Trey Gowdy, you have been talking a lot about this. What are your ideas, first you, Trey, in terms of bring the country together?
GOWDY: Well, you know, Maria, three years ago, Tim Scott and I could have written a book about anything in the world, and we chose to write a book about unity.
And Tim Scott has done more to open my eyes. I have never been black a day in my life, not a day in my life. So, I need someone else&#8217;s eyes to experience that, to understand what that is like.
We need a country that is not so wed to conflict, wed to divisiveness. I mean, we have been through impeachment, a pandemic&#8230;
BARTIROMO: Yes.
GOWDY: &#8230; an economic maelstrom.
We need to focus on unity, and not monetizing conflict, which is what our culture does now.
SCOTT: Maria, one of the&#8230;
BARTIROMO: I think, Senator, you have been doing that with your Opportunity Zones too.
Go ahead, sir.
SCOTT: We certainly have.
President Trump is actually right about the importance of an economic comeback to bring people together. The more resources you have, the more margin you have towards other people in the country.
But one of the things that we can do to bring this nation together is to follow the example of Trey Gowdy as a prosecutor and as a human being. Trey has an amazing story. A young African-American was killed &#8212; murdered. Excuse me.
And her father had no confidence in the justice system, until he met Trey Gowdy. And as a result of that meeting with Trey Gowdy, he still had no confidence. But, at the end of the trial, the man who said that this country is too prejudiced to bring justice to his daughter&#8230;
BARTIROMO: Yes.
SCOTT: &#8230; he hugged Trey Gowdy. He hugged him, because justice was found.
BARTIROMO: What a beautiful vision. We will end it there.
Senator Tim Scott, former Congressman Trey Gowdy, thank you, gentlemen. Have a good day.</blockquote>
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Trey Gowdy Rips Push To Defund Police: ‘Single Dumbest Idea I Have Ever Heard’

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Emmy Award-winning journalist Lara Logan, the former chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News and a correspondent for “60 Minutes,” ripped the mainstream media Monday for their unreliable coverage, in apparent reference to reporting on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-doj-dropping-criminal-case-against-michael-flynn">Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trey-gowdy-names-reporters-from-major-outlets-he-says-leaked-adam-schiffs-false-russia-conspiracy-claims?itm_source=parsely-api%3Futm_content%3Dnews&amp;utm_campaign=daily_shapiro&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=housefile&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8kYtn9vhwbIdbG5A7398ga1h_eezRwNxRydzC29W_S7VbAGXkqRbMjMkQNLEKKcSaQzzkasJtGq2_80mutqnVm058UHg&amp;_hsmi=87756437">Russian/Trump</a> conspiracy peddling.
&#8220;At a moment like this, it is unfortunate that we cannot rely on media organizations and journalists to take an honest look at the evidence — and do the right thing,&#8221; Logan wrote on Twitter Monday night. &#8220;No one has to take anyone‘s word anymore — all you have to do is read the notes, documents, reports &amp; transcripts.&#8221;
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At a moment like this, it is unfortunate that we cannot rely on media organizations and journalists to take an honest look at the evidence &#8211; and do the right thing. No one has to take anyone‘s word anymore &#8211; all you have to do is read the notes, documents, reports &amp; transcripts.
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Four minutes before the tweet, Logan, who now hosts &#8220;No Agenda&#8221; on Fox News&#8217; Fox Nation, posted a story from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trey-gowdy-names-reporters-from-major-outlets-he-says-leaked-adam-schiffs-false-russia-conspiracy-claims?itm_source=parsely-api%3Futm_content%3Dnews&amp;utm_campaign=daily_shapiro&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=housefile&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8kYtn9vhwbIdbG5A7398ga1h_eezRwNxRydzC29W_S7VbAGXkqRbMjMkQNLEKKcSaQzzkasJtGq2_80mutqnVm058UHg&amp;_hsmi=87756437">The Daily Wire</a> regarding former South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy calling out the media for &#8220;peddling&#8221; Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff’s Trump-Russia conspiracy claims, which were ultimately found to have no substantive evidence by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
“You talk about the media having culpability as well,” Fox host Maria Bartiromo <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trey-gowdy-names-reporters-from-major-outlets-he-says-leaked-adam-schiffs-false-russia-conspiracy-claims?itm_source=parsely-api%3Futm_content%3Dnews&amp;utm_campaign=daily_shapiro&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=housefile&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8kYtn9vhwbIdbG5A7398ga1h_eezRwNxRydzC29W_S7VbAGXkqRbMjMkQNLEKKcSaQzzkasJtGq2_80mutqnVm058UHg&amp;_hsmi=87756437">said</a> to Gowdy Sunday morning. “Name some names of those reporters out there, those media institutions that helped Adam Schiff peddle this ‘in plain sight collusion’ nonsense that he said for three years.”
“Well, I hope you have a three-hour show. Let’s just start with Politico and anyone not named Rachael Bade — she was the only reporter that I dealt with that was fair,&#8221; Gowdy responded, adding, “[Politico&#8217;s] Kyle Cheney is just an acolyte for Adam Schiff, Manu Raju from CNN. Nothing Schiff wanted out, made public, no leak was too low for Manu Raju and CNN. &#8230; Fill in the blank at The New York Times.&#8221;
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In February of last year, Logan made headlines for criticizing the mainstream media, claiming reporters and anchors have now dropped even the pretense of being objective, likening some journalists to “activists” and “propagandists.”
“The media everywhere is mostly liberal, not just in the U.S. But in this country, 85% of journalists are registered Democrats – that’s just a fact,” Logan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/propagandists-emmy-award-winning-journalist-lara-amanda-prestigiacomo">told</a> “<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mike-drop/id1346234726?mt=2#episodeGuid=c5cadfbd9cd84d269f96d77cc647ef89">Mike Drop</a>” podcast host Mike Ritland, a retired Navy SEAL.
“How do you know you’re being lied to?” she continued. “How do you know you’re being manipulated? How do you know there’s something not right with the coverage? When they simplify it all and there’s no gray. There’s no gray. It’s all one way. Well, life isn’t like that. If it doesn’t match real life, it’s probably not — there’s something wrong.”
Regarding President Donald Trump, Logan noted that nearly all coverage on POTUS is negative. “That’s distortion of the way things go in real life, because although the media has historically always been left-leaning, we’ve abandoned our pretense, or at least the effort, to be objective today,” Logan said.
“We’ve become political activists, and some could argue propagandists, and there’s some merit to that,” she bluntly added.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/propagandists-emmy-award-winning-journalist-lara-amanda-prestigiacomo">WATCH: CBS’ Lara Logan Calls Out Media For Propaganda-Like Coverage: ‘This Interview Is Professional Suicide For Me</a>
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Former CBS Reporter Rips Media: ‘Unfortunate That We Cannot Rely On’ ‘Journalists To Take Honest Look At The Evidence’

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In an <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/05/10/trey-gowdy-adam-schiff-leaks-cnn-politico/">interview</a> on Fox News’ Sunday morning, former South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy &#8220;named some names&#8221; from what he suggested was a very long list of reporters from mainstream media outlets who helped &#8220;peddle&#8221; Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff&#8217;s Trump-Russia conspiracy claims, for which Special Counsel Robert Mueller ultimately found no substantive evidence.
After 22-months and tens of millions of dollars dedicated to the investigation, Mueller concluded in his 448-page final report that his team &#8220;did not find that the Trump campaign, or anyone associated with it, conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in these efforts, despite multiple efforts from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign.&#8221;
While Mueller was slowly conducting his exhaustive investigation, House Intelligence Committee member and eventual chair Adam Schiff was repeatedly publicly claiming that there was conclusive evidence of the &#8220;collusion&#8221; claim, evidence he failed to produce and Mueller conclusively proved did not exist. (The Daily Caller documented <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2019/07/24/rep-schiff-419-interviews-russian-collusion/">over 400 times</a> that Schiff publicly pushed the claim.)
Though Schiff was the source of the Mueller-debunked claims, Gowdy and Fox host Maria Bartiromo pointed out during &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures&#8221; this weekend that the mainstream media is also culpable in the spreading of the conspiratorial narrative that the Trump campaign worked with the Russian government in order to &#8220;steal&#8221; the election from Hillary Clinton.
&#8220;You talk about the media having culpability as well,&#8221; said Bartiromo, &#8220;Name some names of those reporters out there, those media institutions that helped Adam Schiff peddle this &#8216;in plain sight collusion&#8217; nonsense that he said for three years.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I hope you have a three-hour show,&#8221; said Gowdy. &#8220;Let&#8217;s just start with Politico and anyone not named <a href="https://www.politico.com/staff/rachael-bade">Rachael Bade</a> — she was the only reporter that I dealt with that was fair.&#8221;
&#8220;<a href="https://www.politico.com/states/staff/kyle-cheney">Kyle Cheney</a> is just an acolyte for Adam Schiff,&#8221; said Gowdy in reference to Politico congressional reporter. &#8220;Manu Raju from CNN,&#8221; the former congressman added, referencing another senior congressional reporter. &#8220;Nothing Schiff wanted out, made public, no leak was too low for Manu Raju and CNN.&#8221;
Then there is the Gray Lady. &#8220;Fill in the blank at The New York Times,&#8221; said Gowdy.
As noted by Daily Caller&#8217;s <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/05/10/trey-gowdy-adam-schiff-leaks-cnn-politico/">Chuck Ross</a>, Schiff once cited the salacious widely debunked Steele dossier during a March 20, 2017 intelligence committee hearing, claiming Trump and Russia were involved in a &#8220;well-developed conspiracy of collusion.&#8221; Schiff also infamously released a memo in February 2018 defending the FBI&#8217;s handling of the &#8220;dirty&#8221; dossier in initiating surveillance of Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.  An investigation by the Justice Department inspector general found that the FBI heavily relied on the dossier, despite it being the result of opposition research funded by the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign and being unverified and highly dubious.
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House Impeachment Managers Discuss the Senate Impeachment Trial in Washington, US

Trey Gowdy Names Reporters From Major Outlets He Says Leaked Adam Schiff’s False Russia Conspiracy Claims

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On Wednesday night, after Democratic senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) had called for Attorney General William Barr to resign after the Department of Justice  recommended a lighter sentence for Roger Stone, former House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/trey-gowdy-bill-barr-resignation-roger-stone">told Martha MacCallum of Fox News</a>, “The notion that Bill Barr should resign is about the dumbest damn thing I have ever heard.”
Warren had <a href="https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1227642421762252800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fpolitics%2Fdems-demand-barrs-resignation-amid-stone-sentence-storm">tweeted</a>, “Congress must act immediately to rein in our lawless Attorney General. Barr should resign or face impeachment. And Congress should use spending power to defund the AG’s authority to interfere with anything that affects Trump, his friends, or his elections.” Blumenthal added, “Attorney General William Barr ought to be ashamed and embarrassed and resign as a result of this action directly interfering in the independent prosecution of Roger Stone.”
MacCallum prompted Gowdy by asking, “What’s your take on this story?”
Gowdy answered:
<blockquote>That the prosecutors wanted nine years, Bill Barr thinks that two or three years is more proportional and the only difference between the two is whether you count this eight-level enhancement for actively threatening a witness. If you didn’t have that enhancement, then everyone would agree that Bill Barr’s view of the guidelines is accurate. So the judge is gonna decide whether or not that enhancement is appropriate, supported by the facts.
Martha, this was a trial; she presided over the trial; she listened to the witnesses; she’s uniquely well-positioned to decide whether or not that enhancement should be in play, but the notion — I mean, prosecutors don’t sentence people. Presidents don’t sentence people; Fox News commentators don’t sentence people; judges do. And we give them life tenure so they can make these calls.
But the notion that Bill Barr should resign is about the dumbest damn thing I have ever heard. If a United States senator really believes that the head of the Department of Justice cannot weigh in on what a proportional sentence is — I mean, there are child pornographers who do not get nine years, Martha. There are people who rob banks that don’t get nine years. So let the judge decide. I think two or three year is about right.</blockquote>
MacCallum asked about President Trump’s tweeting about the case, noting Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) saying Trump should not have issued the tweet.
Gowdy responded:
<blockquote>I’ve had the same position whether it was Barack Obama or Donald Trump: I do not think the chief executive should be weighing in ongoing investigations or criminal prosecutions. That was my position with President Obama when he weighed in on the &#8220;not a smidgeon of corruption&#8221;; it’s my position now. I can tell you this: Bill Barr was aware of this recommendation before President Trump ever tweeted a single syllable, a single character. So the notion that Barr was somehow motivated to move because of this tweet is just factually wrong.</blockquote>
MacCallum opined that as soon as the Ukraine investigation and subsequent impeachment trial was completed, Democrats decided they would turn to something else to attack the president. She asked if the Barr/Trump/Stone issues would turn into something “sizeable.”
Gowdy answered: “I don’t think so, because the president has the power to commute Roger Stone’s sentence if he wants to; he has the power to pardon him right now if he wants to. He can do it by tweet tonight. He is the head of the executive branch, and people have a chance in November. If hey want a different one — I’m being consistent; I don’t think presidents ought to weigh in on ongoing investigations or prosecutions.&#8221;
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WATCH: Gowdy Rips Dems Calling For Barr’s Resignation: ‘Dumbest Damn Thing I Have Ever Heard’

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Former Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) slammed House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) on Sunday over the way the entire impeachment process has unfolded, and highlighted the difference between how President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden have been treated in respect to being investigated.
Gowdy, who appeared on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures&#8221; with host Maria Bartiromo, made the remarks in response to a question about what he would advise the president&#8217;s legal team to do during the Senate trial.
&#8220;I would begin to ask questions of Schiff. And I would kind of connect the process with the substance. I would go line by line through that parody,&#8221; Gowdy began. &#8220;Adam Schiff had a chance to read the actual transcript, the actual evidence. He opted instead to create, to manufacture a parody. I would go line by line through that parody and ask Adam Schiff, why did you say that? You have the actual transcript of the call. Why was that not good enough for you, Adam? Why did you have to make up [out of] whole cloth?&#8221;
&#8220;I would also ask him, is it never okay to investigate someone who’s running for office?&#8221; Gowdy continued. &#8220;I mean, if Joe Biden were not a presidential candidate, if he were just like me and you, Maria, just a regular person, can you investigate him then? I mean, somehow this status of being a candidate means you’re off-limits?&#8221;
&#8220;The other thing I’d ask is, it took a conversation in a bar to investigate President Trump,&#8221; Gowdy concluded. &#8220;That’s all it took, a conversation in a bar, to investigate President Trump. What would it take to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden?&#8221;
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<blockquote>MARIA BARTIROMO, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: Welcome back. President Trump&#8217;s legal team resumes its defense tomorrow morning in the Senate impeachment trial.
His attorneys have indicated they plan to keep things shorter and less repetitive than Democratic House managers did in making their case.
Let&#8217;s bring in a member of the president&#8217;s defense team, Congressman Mark Meadows, Republican from North Carolina. He sits on the House Oversight Committee. Also joining us is former South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy, who served as chairman of the House Oversight Committee. He&#8217;s a former prosecutor and now a FOX News contributor.
Gentlemen, it&#8217;s wonderful to have you this morning. Thanks very much for joining us.
REP. MARK MEADOWS (R-NC): Great to be with you.
TREY GOWDY, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: Yes, ma&#8217;am. Thank you.
BARTIROMO: Congressman Mark Meadows, let me kick it off with you. What can we expect from the defense team tomorrow morning?
MEADOWS: Well, obviously the two hours that was presented Saturday morning really went a long way to undercut the foundation of what Adam Schiff and his team laid out on three previous days.
I can tell you, it is more about what Adam Schiff didn&#8217;t tell the American people than what he did tell them.
Mike Purpura did a great job of lining out those nine things. Why didn&#8217;t Adam Schiff tell you these nine important facts? And so what we will see on Monday is a strategic building upon that foundation to tell the rest of the story.
Trey Gowdy and I got to see the very beginnings of the whole Russia investigation. And we knew that Adam Schiff multiple times was, at best, mischaracterizing the evidence that he had.
But we&#8217;re going to continue to see that on Monday, as the entire team builds step by step, block by block, the reasons why there&#8217;s not only not an impeachable case, but certainly not even anything that comes remotely close to high crimes and misdemeanors.
BARTIROMO: Yes.
MEADOWS: And this is all about politics, Maria. It has nothing to do with witnesses or anything else. It&#8217;s all about a political – really a political allegation, trying to impugn the president&#8217;s reputation.
BARTIROMO: And, Trey Gowdy, it&#8217;s interesting, because the House prosecutors&#8217; strategy seems to be, let&#8217;s shame the senators, saying, well, I guess you have to go with President Trump. Otherwise, your head will be on a pike, or, look, you&#8217;re all involved in a cover-up.
But the legal team of the president, that strategy, partly, is including an indictment of Adam Schiff&#8217;s character, looking back to what Adam Schiff said during the Russia collusion narrative, which, of course, was not true, and to show that there were lies throughout.
What do you advise the president&#8217;s team to take, what tack to take?
TREY GOWDY, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: Well, I would let them let Jerry never take all the time he wants to talk.
(LAUGHTER)
GOWDY: Jerry Nadler&#8217;s trial strategy is to insult the jury. I was in a lot of courtrooms, Maria. I never, ever saw a prosecutor have as a strategy, let&#8217;s see what we can do to infuriate, alienate, and offend the jury.
What I would do if I were – you know, the president has got a great team. Mark is great, Ratcliffe, Pat. But I would begin to ask questions of Schiff. And I would kind of connect the process with the substance. I would go line by line through that parody.
Adam Schiff had a chance to read the actual transcript, the actual evidence. He opted instead to create, to manufacture a parody. I would go line by line through that parody and ask Adam Schiff, why did you say that?
You have the actual transcript of the call. Why was that not good enough for you, Adam? Why did you have to make up [out of] whole cloth?
I would also ask him, is it never okay to investigate someone who is running for office? I mean, if Joe Biden were not a presidential candidate, if he just like me and you, Maria, just a regular person, can you investigate him then? I mean, somehow this status of being a candidate means you’re off-limits?
The only thing I would ask is, it took a conversation in a bar to investigate President Trump. That is all it took, a conversation in a bar, to investigate President Trump. What would it take to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden?
BARTIROMO: Yes.
(LAUGHTER)
GOWDY: I mean, if it is just a conversation in a bar, is that the threshold to investigate?
BARTIROMO: Yes. The other thing is, you haven&#8217;t seen the 18th transcript, Mark. You haven&#8217;t – Congressman Meadows. You haven&#8217;t seen the I.G. And that was the 18th transcript.
Let&#8217;s take a short break, because there are other things to get to, including this news we got, an admission of guilt from the Department of Justice. Congressman Mark Meadows, Trey Gowdy coming back with me after this.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
BARTIROMO: Trey Gowdy, Congressman Mark Meadows.
I want to get to the news of the week, gentlemen. And that was an admission from the Department of Justice that the Department of Justice said that at least two of the FBI surveillance applications to secretly monitor former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page lacked probable cause, they were unlawful.
That&#8217;s not what we heard from Jim Comey back in 2018.
Roll the tape.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
JAMES COMEY, FORMER FBI DIRECTOR: I have total confidence that the FISA process was followed and that the entire case was handled in a thoughtful, responsible way by DOJ and the FBI.
I think the notion that FISA was abused here is nonsense.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BARTIROMO: Nonsense, Mark Meadows. Your reaction?
(LAUGHTER)
MEADOWS: Well, Maria, you have been covering this.
Trey Gowdy, John Ratcliffe, Jim Jordan, and I knew the facts of this. We knew that not only that that third and fourth FISA application had problems with it, but we also know that there were real probable cause concerns with the first and second one.
So, we haven&#8217;t seen the end of this.
Why does it matter? It matters for this reason, Adam Schiff knew that there were problems with that. He purposely went out and suggested that Devin Nunes was not correct with his analysis, just like he&#8217;s purposely going out right now spinning a narrative as it relates to Ukrainian aid being held up for some nefarious purpose.
It just didn&#8217;t happen.
BARTIROMO: It&#8217;s all connected, Trey Gowdy.
GOWDY: Yes. Four different times, the United States government went and asked permission to surveil a presidential candidate. At least two of them, they lacked the lowest level of evidence needed, the lowest level of evidence needed.
This is not the search of some meth lab in a trailer park. It is surveilling a presidential candidate. And the FBI and DOJ struck out at least two out of four times, and maybe all four.
Schiff, Comey, McCabe, The Washington Post, New York Times, Politico, they were all wrong, and those crazy House Republicans turned out to be right after all.
BARTIROMO: And yet that&#8217;s not what you heard from Adam Schiff in the trial. Do you believe he will be – the president will be acquitted, very quickly, Mark Meadows?
MEADOWS: He will be acquitted. We need to get this over with quickly, so it doesn&#8217;t linger into the November elections.
BARTIROMO: Okay, we will leave it there. Gentlemen, thank you so much for joining us.</blockquote>

Trey Gowdy On Investigating The Bidens: It Only Took A Bar Convo To Investigate Trump

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This week, former Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy appeared on Fox News to discuss the upcoming impeachment trial in the United States Senate.
During the segment, hosts Bill Hemmer and Sandra Smith played a clip from a recent interview conducted by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow with Giuliani associate Lev Parnas.
<blockquote>PARNAS: I didn&#8217;t feel that they were trying to get me out, and at that point, I had a meeting with John Dowd and [Kevin] Downing inside the jail, and John Dowd just, instead of comforting me and, you know, trying to calm me down, telling me like it&#8217;s going to be okay, like don&#8217;t worry, basically start[ed] talking to me like a drill sergeant &#8230;
MADDOW: Were they telling you to sacrifice yourself in order to protect the president?
PARNAS: That’s what I felt.</blockquote>
After introducing Gowdy to the program, Smith asked: “So, what is your response when you hear that?”
Gowdy replied, urging viewers to watch the entire interview:
<blockquote>I would encourage your viewers to listen to the entire interview, not just the snippets. Remember, Parnas was upset because he expected Giuliani and Trump to come to his defense. This is a guy charged with falsifying records, making a false statement, conspiracy to defraud the FEC. He’s upset – by the way, John Dowd is not Trump&#8217;s former lawyer; that&#8217;s not how I would characterize him. He is Parnas’ hand-picked lawyer. That’s who hired John Dowd and Kevin Downing. It was Lev Parnas. So, if he&#8217;s upset that he hired these two, he&#8217;s got nobody to blame but himself. He wanted Giuliani and Trump to come to his defense in these three charges that he&#8217;s facing. That’s why he&#8217;s upset. You only get that from watching the entire interview, not from reading the stories and not from listening to that snippet.</blockquote>
Hemmer then queried: “Was he asked precisely – if he said the president knew exactly what he was doing, has he described what those meetings were about, or conversations were about? Have you heard that yet?”
Gowdy responded, tearing apart Parnas’ credibility in the process:
<blockquote>You know, Bill, what I didn&#8217;t hear was the follow-up. “Okay, with total certitude, you say President Trump knew what you were doing. Convince us of that. Give us the evidence.” Remember, he also said that Bill Barr was in the loop and then when cited for evidence, he said, “Well, he’s friends with diGenova and Toensing, and his name was mentioned in [the] transcript.” If that&#8217;s the only evidence you have that Bill Barr is part of a conspiracy to defraud the United States and get a foreign government to investigate a political opponent, if the only evidence you have is who he&#8217;s friends with and his name was mentioned in the transcript, that ain&#8217;t much evidence &#8230; so, I need to hear the follow-up questions.
&#8230;the way lawyers interview people, when you cross-examine them, Parnas gave three different answers to the same question about Mike Pence. His first answer is, “I&#8217;m absolutely certain Pence knew about it,” and then about three seconds later he said, “Well, he had to have, right?” and then the last answer was, “Well, it was possible.” Those three answers don&#8217;t do you well in the courtroom. They do great if you&#8217;re writing headlines; they do not do well in the courtroom.</blockquote>
Following Gowdy’s answer, Smith shifted to Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA): “Well, Nancy Pelosi didn&#8217;t rule out the possibility of talking to him in this impeachment process. I mean, what are we supposed to think the impact of those interviews are going to have as this impeachment trial is officially underway now?”
Gowdy replied, castigating Pelosi for seemingly having such a “low threshold” for smearing an individual like Bill Barr:
<blockquote>I was stunned at how little it takes in Speaker Pelosi&#8217;s eyes to call for special counsel. You have someone who&#8217;s under indictment, a Ukrainian under indictment that no one would have believed six months ago, who says that it&#8217;s possible that Bill Barr may have been in on it based on the fact that his name was in a transcript – and she&#8217;s willing to call for special counsel. I mean, I think the threshold for besmirching someone&#8217;s reputation, particularly someone like Bill Barr, ought to be a little higher than relying on one of six or seven different answers that Lev Parnas gave to the same question in an MSNBC interview.</blockquote>
Gowdy added that “if you’re going to make Lev Parnas the center of your impeachment prosecution,” one has to be ready to call numerous other witnesses in order to assess the credibility of Parnas’ claims, which could lead to a months-long trial.
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