If Trey Gowdy of SC is not just giving up a plum chair job, but retiring from the house all together, it's gotta be bad, real bad. It don't get much redder or Trumpier than his district, figures the base will stay home cause they fucked Donald and the evidence of GOP colusion will be strong enough that a few GOP people might go to jail. Trey is an experienced prosecutor and knows which way the wind is gonna blow, I figure he watched what Sessions (another former prosecutor) did to protect the FBI and justice from Trump, then figured Mueller had him for perjury and owned him. The jig was up, time to get outta Dodge, cause the GOP is risking jail from here on out. Lot's of in the know committee chairmen aren't running again, Trey is not alone, I figure Paul Ryan won't run again either, but he can't say that yet.
Who knows how far the rot goes, that's Mueller and a future congresses job, the FBI and democrats will be intensely interested, as will the public and of course the press. No matter what has been found or comes of this the core of Donald's base will not buy it, yer in the territory of religion here. It would be like trying to convince a born yesterday christian that the Jesus myth was a myth or that Adam and Eve didn't really happen, or Santa Claus is not real...
Donald is gonna have his own church one day and I hope it's full of martyrs, they will be accepting donations for the perpetual legal defense fund, so why not fleece the suckers.