Fox News Host Tells Trump to Have ‘Humility’ Over SCOTUS Ruling — Because He’ll Likely Lose Next One
Fox News host and former Republican congressman, Trey Gowdy, reacted to the Supreme Court overruling to Colorado Supreme Court banning Donald Trump from that state’s presidential ballot Monday by urging the former president to show some “humility.”
“Glad that it was unanimous end result,” Gowdy said of the unanimous decision, adding:
If you read the opinion, they have different analysis that they employ. But, you know, we live in this in this world where we there’s a hunger for unanimity for unity, if you will, and for the U.S. Supreme Court, with all of its ideological diversity to say nine to nothing, ‘Hey, Colorado Supreme Court, you were wrong.’ Number one, we shouldn’t be surprised, because even Democrats on the Colorado Supreme Court didn’t agree with it. I mean, it was a very, very close decision. Number two, when’s the last time we were talking about the eight, the ninth… I mean, the Ninth and 10th Amendments. I mean, those those things have been done. But they’re referenced in this opinion.
“Politically for President Trump who’s going to give remarks at noon. You know he’s calling this a big win for America. And his ability to sort of get this particular issue off of his legal plate. He’s still got a full, you know, all you can eat buffet of legal issues that the Democrats have put in place for him, but politically, for him, do you think that that helps continue the momentum that we’re seeing? That’s just inevitable. And the polls from the New York Times, Fox News, and AP over the weekend?” asked anchor Dana Perino.
“Yes and this particular instance, he was politically targeted,” answered Gowdy, adding:
And he and he can safely say that is the unanimous opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court, including justices that otherwise do not like me and will not vote for me. I would encourage him to do something that he doesn’t, often do, which is show humility because there are other decisions that are coming that he may not agree with. I don’t think he’s going to win the presidential immunity case before the court. So, you know, it’s confusing when you say, ‘I love you’ on one day and ‘I hate you’ the next. Show a little restraint when you win and show a little restraint when you don’t win. Argue you the merits of it? This was not a closed case, and anyone who listened to oral arguments knows that. But neither is the presidential immunity. I don’t think that one’s going to wind up being close to either the other direction.
“Why do you say that?” Bill Hemmer asked.
“Because I don’t think, I think we are a country where we fundamentally reject the notion that anyone is above the law. And the notion that you can somehow silence your political opponents and escape criminal, criminal culpability unless you are impeached. I don’t know, I had some I had one of the president’s lawyers on my show last night. They’re now changing the argument. That’s not really what we met, but that’s what they said before the Supreme Court. And that’s just, that’s another reason that most Americans reject. We are a nation of laws, not a nation of men and women. And we hold that sacrosanct. And when you put people above the law, lots of us kind of raise our eyebrows on both sides of the aisle,” replied Gowdy.
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