Donald Trump would be best served by showing âhumilityâ after the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in his favor Monday, Fox News host Trey Gowdy argued, citing the fact that the court still has yet to rule in a separate case concerning Trumpâs claims of presidential immunity, which Gowdy believes he is likely to lose.
After news broke Monday morning that all nine justices voted unanimously to stop Colorado from banning the former president from its primary ballot under section 3 of the 14th Amendment, Gowdy called in to Fox News to give his reaction, including some advice for the former president.
âI would encourage him to do something that he doesnât often do, which is show humility, because there are other decisions that are coming that he may not agree with. I donât think heâs going to win the presidential immunity case before the court,â Gowdy said on America Reports.
Last week, the Supreme Court finally decided to hear that case after Trump appealed a unanimous appeals court ruling that he can indeed be prosecuted. In the meantime, his criminal trial in Washington, D.C. over his attempts to overturn the 2020 election is on hold.
Gowdy went on to say that itâs âconfusingâ for people to hear Trump âsay âI love youâ after one ruling and âI hate youâ the next.â
âShow a little restraint when you win, and show a little restraint when you donât win,â he suggested. âArgue the merits of it. This was not a close case. And anyone who listened to oral arguments knows that. But neither is the presidential immunity [one]. I donât think that one is going to wind up being close either in the other direction.â
Gowdy explained heâs confident in that outcome because âwe are a country where we fundamentally reject the notion that anyone is above the law.â
While arguing that case in the appeals court, Trumpâs lawyers claimed that a prosecution would only work if Congress had first impeached and convicted him. During Trumpâs impeachment proceedings following the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, however, his counsel had said the opposite: that an impeachment and conviction was unnecessary because the criminal justice system could handle it.
Trump, speaking to reporters at Mar-a-Lago Monday, said the Supreme Courtâs ruling was âwell crafted,â and will even âgo a long way toward bringing our country together.â The justices, he added, âworked long and they worked hardâ on it.
Soon after, Trump reiterated his sweeping claims for immunity, and then stayed true to form by insisting his legal troubles are due to the actions of ârogue prosecutorsâ and ârogue judges that are out of control.â
âItâs a very unfair thing for me,â he claimed, âbut serving perhaps as a sample to others of what should not be happening.â