Former Rep. Trey Gowdy was fired as a Fox News contributor, a spokesperson for the network told CNBC on Wednesday, as he joins President Donald Trump’s outside counsel amid an impeachment inquiry into the president.
The spokesperson said Gowdy “has been terminated and is no longer a contributor” to Fox, where the South Carolina Republican had appeared just days before to discuss the ongoing impeachment inquiry in the House.
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In a recent appearance on Fox, Gowdy had blasted House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who is a leader in the impeachment inquiry — and a prime target of Trump, who has repeatedly accused the committee chief of “treason.”
“Bias kills investigations, and for anyone who wondered whether Adam Schiff could be objective or dispassionate — I never wondered that, but if any of your viewers did — now you know, he makes up facts in openings and he lies about meetings with whistleblowers,” Gowdy said.
Gowdy was referring to The Washington Post’s fact-check of Schiff’s Sept. 17 claim that “We have not spoken directly with the whistleblower” — which the newspaper rated false — and the chairman’s self-described parody of Trump’s call with Zelensky that used mobster-like language.
You don't start impeachment proceedings and then recite a 'parody' of a telephone conversation you proclaim will be your main evidence. If the 'evidence' you have isn't what you hoped it might be just make it up as you go? Nah!Republicans have accused Schiff of fabricating Trump’s remarks in that call, even though Schiff said before his comments that he was characterizing “the essence of what the president communicates.” Schiff also concluded the parody by saying: “This is, in sum and character, what the president was trying to communicate.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/09/fox-ter ... -team.html
