Trey Gowdy: I didn’t think ‘dead man walking’ Sessions would be fired ‘before all the votes had been counted’

By Naomi Lim

Published November 8, 2018 2:35am ET

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Trey Gowdy: I didn’t think ‘dead man walking’ Sessions would be fired ‘before all the votes had been counted’ — Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, arrives at a hearing on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, June 19, 2018 in Washington. | (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Outgoing House Oversight Chairman Trey Gowdy said Wednesday he wasn’t expecting fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions to be booted from the Justice Department before all the votes were counted in the 2018 midterm elections.

“I knew it was going to happen after the election,” Gowdy said during an interview on Fox News. “I did not think it would happen before all the votes had been counted, but he’s been a proverbial dead man walking for several months now.”

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