Giuliani on Gowdy’s FBI defense: ‘He’s drinking the Kool-Aid’

President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani is ripping Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) for defending the FBI over Trump’s spying claims.

“He’s drinking the Kool-Aid,” Giuliani told CNN on Thursday.

He also criticized Gowdy for not moving to prosecute Hillary Clinton over Benghazi.

“I never understood what he did with Benghazi either. He really screwed that up. I don’t know what he was doing,” Giuliani said of Gowdy, who led the House investigation into Benghazi.

His comments come after Gowdy, the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said he was “convinced” that the FBI acted appropriately in its use of a confidential informant to contact members of Trump’s campaign.

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Giuliani went on to say that any meeting between Trump and special counsel Robert Mueller would be delayed until Trump’s team was given more information on the FBI’s use of Stefan Halper, the formerly confidential informant used by the agency in its investigation into alleged campaign ties to Russia.

“I will not accept a briefing. I only want to see the documents,” he said.

“The only thing I can conclude is that the documents are going to show nothing connecting Donald Trump to the Russians. It’s exculpatory, which is why they don’t want to show us,” he added.

Giuliani has frequently questioned the legitimacy of Mueller’s investigation since joining Trump’s legal team earlier this month.

The president has cast the FBI’s use of an informant as evidence the bureau was “spying” on his campaign, which Trump and his allies have suggested without evidence was at the behest of then-President Obama.