Trey Gowdy defended Comey this morning against attacks by Democrats and did it with the precision we have come to expect from him.

Watch:

.@TGowdySC on Comey’s letter: The timing is a ‘direct and natural consequence’ of decisions Clinton made years ago https://t.co/Y9cEG1JMcY — Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) October 31, 2016







I can’t argue with Gowdy on this one. After all, they weren’t even investigating Hillary when they found this huge cache of emails.

Look, Comey has credibility issues and of that there is no doubt. He should have recommended prosecution of Hillary back in July. But the timing of this isn’t his fault, as they had only just gotten a warrant to review these emails before they announced this on Friday.

He’s really in a no-win situation on this. If he sat on the data until after November 8th, he would have further hurt his credibility and looked even more like a Hillary hack. He releases it now and we see what’s happened, that Democrats are turning him into Satan.

I tend to agree with Cruz here, that Comey is basically trying to right a wrong that he committed in July. For whatever the reason, the public does have the right to know about this and I think he did the right thing here by announcing this.