FILE PHOTO: Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Trey Gowdy (R-SC) waits for U.S. Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz to arrive for a joint hearing with the House Judiciary titled, "Oversight of the FBI and DOJ Actions in Advance of the 2016 Election" on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 19, 2018. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Representative Trey Gowdy stepped into a familiar role on Wednesday when President Donald Trump tapped him to join his outside legal team to help battle a Democratic-led impeachment inquiry: conservative battering ram.
It is also a trip through the looking glass for the South Carolina Republican, who will go from demanding information on Congress' behalf to backing a White House that said it would refuse to cooperate with what it called an "illegitimate, unconstitutional" congressional inquiry.
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