Trump remarked that he saw a "big pivot" in Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) in the way the investigation might run. | AP Photo Donald Trump criticizes Trey Gowdy

Donald Trump raised reservations about what he perceives as a shift in the Benghazi investigation on Tuesday night, and does not appear as excited about Hillary Clinton's testimony before the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Thursday as he had been.

"Well, I have to tell you, I was really looking forward to the hearings but then you had a congressman, Republican, go against Trey Gowdy and all of the people, as you know," Trump said Tuesday night on Fox News' "Hannity," an apparent reference to House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's remark that the Benghazi investigation has had a negative impact on Clinton's poll numbers. "And then you had a whistleblower come out, so that hurt. That was not exactly positive," he added, a reference to Bradley Podliska, a former investigator on the Republican side of the panel, who went public with allegations about the committee's mission to destroy Clinton's political reputation.


Trump then remarked that he saw a "big pivot" in Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) in the way the investigation might run.

Appearing on CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday, Gowdy said the he had told fellow GOP colleagues to "shut up talking about things that you don't know anything about. And unless you're on the committee, you have no idea what we've done, why we've done it and what new facts we have found." He also told POLITICO in an interview published Sunday that “[w]hen I hear that ‘it’s about her,’ it is so hard for me."

“You are not worth 18 months of my life, with all due respect. Four dead people are, but you’re not," Gowdy said of the former secretary of state.

"And then yesterday, I watched Trey, who I do respect, I think he's a terrific guy, but he seemed to be doing a big pivot. He said, 'Well this isn't about Hillary Clinton.' You know I'm pretty good at figuring this stuff out, and he seemed to be doing Sean, I'm sure you saw it, he seemed to be doing a big pivot away from Hillary Clinton. And I was trying to figure out what that was all about. So you may not be as happy as you think with these hearings. I just don't know. The hearings — I was looking forward to them," he added.

"But with all that's happening, and I was surprised that he pivoted away so much from Hillary. He said these hearings are not about her, actually — we want to discuss other people much more so. And it sounded like he was sort of pulling away from going after her. So I'm going to have to see what the hearings are all about," he concluded.