Trey Gowdy is changing his tune

Just moments ago, I saw a snippet of Face The Nation on CBS. Margaret Brennan's guest was none other than Trey Gowdy, the father of the Benghazi investigation and the poster boy for outrageous GOP obstructionist behavior with respect to the Mueller investigation.

The main thrust of her final question was basically to get his take on the fact that the new indictments reveal that at least one, and most likely two people involved or formerly associated with the tRump campaign, passed those stolen emails back to the campaign.

The indictments do not reveal the identities of that person or persons, but most folks who follow such things believe that Roger Stone is one and that a hitherto little-known Florida political operative named Aaron Nevins is the other.

So Brennan wanted to get Gowdy's take on the new revelations.

I was shocked when I heard his response. He said, in a manner both plain and robust, that the Special Counsel should figure out exactly who those people were and take appropriate action!

Now, he could have been full of shit while saying that, but that's not the important part; at least it's not for me.

What was shocking to me was that his reply wasn't just more dissembling, deflecting, minimizing and obfuscation at which Gowdy excels and which has been the order of the day for Rethuglicans in the matter of Mueller's probe right from day one!

I could be reading too much into his remarks, but I believe it's another early sign that Repugs believe they've come to the end of their long-held, seemingly iron-clad strategy of uttering lie after lie in all press appearances to keep the truth about the tRump-Russia matter from coming to light.

I'm convinced that they've known that the investigation--and what is known about the investigation--would eventually reach the point where so much rot and corruption would be revealed that the public would stop believing their spin, deflection and lies; and that from that time on, they'd have to start distancing from Fearless Leader in order to prevent the whole party from going down with him.

Now, I don't think it's going to help. I think they're all going down anyway. But I'm now convinced that Gowdy and some others do, in fact, see the handwriting on the wall, and that their PR strategy is starting to change.

I'm happy to say that I believe we're at the tipping point.

And I believe that Bob Mueller's just getting started.

To read a very thorough delineation of the whole matter of how, allegedly, Stone and Nevins fed the content of those notorious stolen DNC emails back to the campaign, or--to be more precise--to tRump himself, check out this unrolled twitter thread from investigator Seth Abramson.

For more of a big picture look at Friday's very important indictments of 12 Russian GRU operatives and what the repercussions might be, follow this link.



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