Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., on Thursday excoriated Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray instead of asking questions in his first five minutes during the top law enforcement officials’ testimony before the House Judiciary Committee.
“If you have evidence of wrongdoing by any member of the Trump campaign, present it to the damn grand jury,” Gowdy, who is chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said Thursday in reference to special counsel Robert Mueller’s federal Russia investigation.
“If you have evidence that this president acted inappropriately, present it to the American people,” he continued. “There’s an old saying that justice delayed is justice denied. I think right now all of us are being denied. Whatever you got, finish it the hell up because this country is being torn apart.”
.@TGowdySC: “Whatever you got, finish it the hell up, because this country is being torn apart.”
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Mueller’s federal investigation is looking into whether Russia meddled in the 2016 election and if there was collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. Mueller is also looking into whether Trump attempted to obstruct the inquiry. The one-year anniversary of Rosenstein, the Justice Department’s No. 2 official, appointing Mueller was May 17.
Gowdy was named chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi shortly after its creation on May 8, 2014, until it issued its final report on Dec. 12, 2016. The committee investigated how the Obama administration, particularly the State Department under Hillary Clinton’s leadership, handled the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on Sep. 11, 2012.
