Chuck Ross on May 19, 2019
Former Republican South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy said he is aware of potentially game-changing evidence in the FBI’s Russia probe regarding George Papadopoulos, the former Trump campaign adviser.
During an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” Gowdy indicated he has seen FBI transcripts related to Papadopoulos that contain potentially exculpatory information on the question of possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government.
“If the bureau’s going to send in an informant in, the informant’s going to be wired, and if the bureau is monitoring telephone calls, there’s going to be a transcript of that,” Gowdy told host Maria Bartiromo.
Gowdy continued:
“Some of us have been fortunate enough to know whether or not those transcripts exist. But they haven’t been made public, and I think one in particular is going — it has the potential to actually persuade people. Very little in this Russia probe I’m afraid is going to persuade people who hate Trump or love Trump. But there is some information in these transcripts that has the potential to be a game-changer if it’s ever made public.”
The FBI officially opened its counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign July 31, 2016, after receiving information from the Australian government regarding Papadopoulos. A top Australian diplomat, Alexander Downer, claimed Papadopoulos told him during a conversation May 10, 2016, that he heard Russia might release information on Hillary Clinton close to the campaign.
As part of its investigation, the FBI used a longtime informant, Stefan Halper, to make contact with Papadopoulos. He paid Papadopoulos $3,000 and flew him to London in mid-September 2016 under the guise of writing an academic paper on Mediterranean energy security issues.
Halper, a former Cambridge professor, was accompanied by a woman he claimed was his assistant. But the woman, who used the alias Azra Turk, was actually a government investigator. Papadopoulos claims during meetings in London, Halper and Turk asked him if he knew of or was involved in Russian efforts to obtain Clinton emails. Papadopoulos said he denied having any knowledge of the matter.
A month after Papadopoulos’s trip, the FBI obtained a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant against Carter Page, another Trump campaign aide. The surveillance warrant mentioned Papadopoulos as well. It is unclear if the application for the warrant includes any information gathered by Halper, who also established contact with Page.
Gowdy, who served on the House Intelligence Committee, said he and Texas Rep. John Ratcliffe have seen the potentially exculpatory documents. He said he hopes the public will one day get to review it.
“If you have exculpatory information and you don’t share it with the court, that ain’t good. I’ve seen it, Johnny [Ratcliffe] has seen it. I’d love for your viewers to see it,” he said.
Gowdy, who is a Fox News contributor, dropped another potential bombshell in a Fox News interview earlier in May.
He indicated that while he was in office, he saw an FBI spreadsheet that listed news articles and information from longtime Clinton crony Sidney Blumenthal’s corroborating information for the Steele dossier.
make all the demon-rats involved testify, and make sure they are wired to a polygraph unit. and have a dozen extra on standby, because we all know, that the rats will burn one out in no time, with all their lies.
Gowdy is still liable for protecting classified information. Even IF it’s juicy. He should wait until POTUS declassifies the documents en masse. Then his hands won’t be tied.
I’ll believes it when I sees it. Ahh yuk, yuk, yuk, yuk.
Trump can’t let it go. this is bigger then you think. people are going to face the firing squad…
He doesn’t have those pesky liars to stop him now! Every time he interviewed Hillary they did nothing but I think she sunk the boat and it’s sinking fast!
Touche’
I don’t believe that, Judicial Watch has evidence that is going through the system now to be released or a least people will be testifying under oath and if guilty, going to jail. This should all be happening in a reasonable amount of time.
What is not clear is what sort of game change he is talking about.
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Trey should be APPOINTED as a Consultant to lawyer Durham.
What a TEAM they would be.
Blah, blah, blah. Trey Gowdy always “talks the talk,” how about some “walk the walk?” John Dean put it out there for the world to see in Watergate……how about some “show and tell” Trey?
Gowdy has compromised the value of the “documents”, if they are released now people will question their authenticity etc. More likely they will not be released and people will say cover up. Shut up until they are public domain, this is an obvious obfuscation I only want to know one thing, why is he grand standing whether he loves or hates Trump.
Who’s Ted?
That’s gotta be some kind of coercion.
Ted Gowdy is a RINO, and plays games. He colluded with Democrats and Comey to let Hillary escape her illegal e-mail and private server crime. Trump should never trust him for vital issues of the forthcoming Russia investigation of AG Burr.
Trey… It won’t matter… Don’t you ‘get it’…. The system is ‘wired’…There could be 100 smoking guns and nothing will come to anyone of these people who have undermined our government, what they did and —will get away with it….. Fagedaboudit.
Is this the same FBI that didn’t prosecute Hilary Clinton ‘because she didn’t mean it’ when they had her in their cross hairs?
Clinton commies and MSM are going down with FBI, DNI, CIA, DOJ, high-up, not rank and file members!
This so-called FBI investigation of Trump, at the behest of Clinton et al, makes Watergate seem like a small anthill compared to Mount Everest.