Trey wants his own show

Trey wants his own show

by digby

Trey Gowdy says he doesn't think there should be a special counsel investigating Hillary Clinton:

“You can investigate something without special counsel,” Gowdy said on Fox News. “There is a threshold that has to be met, and I don’t think it has been met.”

During a House Judiciary hearing on Tuesday, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) grilled Attorney General Jeff Sessions about what it would take to get a special counsel investigation into the so-called Trump dossier and various Clinton-related accusations.

Sessions on Tuesday pushed back, and told Jordan that there must be a “factual basis” to appoint a special counsel.

“‘Looks like’ is not enough basis to appoint a special counsel,” Sessions said. “You can have your idea, but sometimes we have to study what the facts are and to evaluate whether it meets the standard that requires a special counsel.”

Gowdy said he did not sign a letter Republican lawmakers sent Sessions asking for a special counsel’s appointment to investigate those matters.

“Jim Jordan is a great friend. I have tremendous respect for him. I didn’t sign the letter, because I don’t think the threshold has been met for an appointment of special counsel,” he said. “To say we’re not going to appoint special counsel is not to say we aren’t going to look into anything.

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Of course they're going to "investigate."What they don't want is anyone "investigating" who might shut down the big show they need to put on to keep their bloodthirsty deplorables engaged.

Trump wants to "lock her up" and he's pressuring the DOJ to go after her. They don't need a special counsel to do that. His followers would love to see her dragged off in chains for whatever sick psycho-sexual reasons they have. But what they really want is a big show trial. Like this:

The man on the left is this guy.

That is what Trump means when he says he would "love" to get involved in the Justice Department. It's what his pal Vlad has the freedom to do in his country. And, most importantly, it is what would make his followers swoon with delight. They are authoritarians and they want the state to punish people they do not like on their behalf.

I don't know if Gowdy is ready to go this far but he would clearly love to run Benghazi II, The Show Trial. It worked out well for them last time. They won the whole enchilada, after all.

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