CNN’s Toobin: Trey Gowdy’s Only Telling the Truth About ‘SpyGate’ Claim Because He’s ‘Not Running for Reelection’

On CNN’s New Day this morning, Jeffrey Toobin said Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) is being so honest about debunking “SpyGate” because he’s not running for reelection.

After last week’s briefing, Gowdy said on Fox News last night he’s seen nothing to suggest the FBI acted improperly. Instead, he argued that they did what the American people would want them to do.

“Gowdy, like Jeff Flake,” Toobin said, “is not running for reelection, so he actually is telling the truth about what’s going on here.”

He said not only is “SpyGate” a bogus conspiracy, but the attacks on the FBI are unwarranted and Gowdy happens to be “afflicted with the disease of being honest.”

Ken Cuccinelli still argued that people shouldn’t brush aside concerns about the informant, bringing up how Gowdy said this appears to have nothing to do with Trump himself.

Anchor John Berman pressed him a bit and again brought up what Gowdy said.

President Trump must surely be aware of Gowdy’s comments, because he quoted him at length this morning… but on a separate topic:

Rep.Trey Gowdy, “I don’t think so, I think what the President is doing is expressing frustration that Attorney General Sessions should have shared these reasons for recusal before he took the job, not afterward. If I were the President and I picked someone to be the country’s….

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 30, 2018

….chief law enforcement officer, and they told me later, ‘oh by the way I’m not going to be able to participate in the most important case in the office, I would be frustrated too…and that’s how I read that – Senator Sessions, why didn’t you tell me before I picked you…..

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 30, 2018

….There are lots of really good lawyers in the country, he could have picked somebody else!” And I wish I did!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 30, 2018

Watch above, via CNN.

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