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.
The 55-year-old former federal prosecutor is best known for pushing relentlessly for information on Obama administration officials, including
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's role in responding to the 2012 attack on a U.S. government compound in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four U.S. officials.