Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC)
House Benghazi Czar Trey Gowdy is finding out what it's like when reporters stop taking your every word as gospel, and
he does not like it one bit.
“I would say in some ways these have been among the worst weeks of my life,” Gowdy said this weekend during a lengthy interview with POLITICO. “Attacks on your character, attacks on your motives, are 1,000-times worse than anything you can do to anybody physically — at least it is for me.”
Aww, poor guy. All it took was 18 months of heavily politicized "investigation" and one of your party's top leaders saying your committee existed to attack Hillary Clinton and just like that, people start questioning your motives. I mean, can you even?
Gowdy believes the criticism has been demonstrably unfair — an attempt to “delegitimize” his panel and discredit his personal reputation ahead of Clinton’s high stakes testimony on Thursday.
“It’s not lost on me that the uptick in criticism is [happening] the two weeks before she’s coming,” he says. “I don’t think that that is a coincidence; it’s an attempt to marginalize and impugn the credibility of the panel that’s going to be asking her questions.”
I think it has maybe a little something to do with the fact that,
three weeks before Clinton's testimony, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said "Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable right? But we put together a Benghazi Special Committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today?" That might have as much to do with the timing of the uptick in criticism as some nefarious plot by Democrats or the media. And it's not like Gowdy's committee and Gowdy himself haven't,
from day one, provided
plenty of ammunition for anyone who cared to notice the
lies and leaks and politicized tenor of the whole investigation.
Gowdy should take comfort in one thing, at least: If the tone of this article is any guide, he will never, ever lose Politico's blind adoration.