Include me among the many who luv’d Trey Gowdy. He was bold, fearless, and outspoken.
Was he also ineffective? Yes. But let’s remember that his time in Congress was under a Democratic Administration and a Democratic DOJ, and the Deep State as well. Congress can investigate but it can’t prosecute. With a politicized DOJ, justice is denied.
Yet, curiously, when Trump was elected Gowdy declined to serve in the Administration, even as Attorney General. And then he left Congress when his career was still rising.
My guess is that the Obama FBI, along with one one of the Obama Intel agencies, dug up some dirt from Gowdy’s past. They had every reason to — Gowdy was their fiercest and most eloquent critic! Maybe he got into some serious trouble as a young man. Maybe some racist hazing when he was a teen that he long repented of. Maybe a brief homosexual fling in the college.
Gowdy’s departure was fast. Fast. I can imagine an unsigned letter or email showing up and telling him he would be exposed, quickly, if he ever went to Senate confirmation. So he made the decision to hang it up and spare himself and his family the humiliation.
Gowdy worried about his new hair styles more than his job. He coulda been GREAT! He was just alright.