Trey Benghazi Gowdy is a former prosecutor, so he knows that Trump's possible indictment on Tuesday isn't about the former President "paying for sex," but that's what he claims.
Trump's former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty in 2018 to eight charges of tax evasion, fraud, and campaign finance violations over his payments to adult film actor Stormy Daniels and
actress Karen McDougal, which the DOJ called an attempt "to influence the 2016 presidential election."
So, Cohen went to prison, was heavily fined, and disbarred in New York. Trump, who directed Cohen to make the transactions, will possibly be indicted for his role in this hot mess.
Gowdy also seems to think you shouldn't prosecute others if you don't prosecute one case. If you don't charge a guy on the corner selling loose cigarettes, you shouldn't charge a bank robber. Obviously.
"On his first day in office, New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced all the crimes he would not prosecute," Gowdy said. "The person elected as the top law enforcement official had a long list of laws he didn't respect enough to follow. He substituted his politics for the rule of law because that's what so-called progressive prosecutors do, and there was nary a word of dissent on the left. Felonies would be downgraded, serious cases dismissed or pled down, prison terms would rarely be solved. Alvin Bragg was a social engineer masquerading as a prosecutor."
"To be clear, Alvin Bragg will not prosecute people who pay for sex; that's one of the crimes he promised to ignore," he continued. "To him, you can pay someone for sex in New York and get away with it, but God forbid you pay someone to be quiet about it afterwards."
"The demise of our country will be in direct proportion to how politicized our justice system remains," he said. Gowdy added that the justice system should be "a place where both friend and foe are afforded fairness and due process, where nothing matters except the law and the facts."
Well, at least he has admitted that Trump had sex with Daniels because the former president has been denying the sexual encounter took place. But the sexual part isn't at the center of this potential indictment.
