Gowdy shoots down House Democrats' request to probe Trump sexual assault allegations
Source: Politico
By KYLE CHENEY 12/13/2017 09:59 AM EST
House oversight committee chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) has referred allegations that President Donald Trump sexually assaulted women to the Justice Department, rebuffing a request from House Democrats that his committee investigate the claims.
"This Committee, nor any other Committee of Congress, does not, and cannot, prosecute crimes. This is true for many reasons but especially true in crimes of this serious nature," he wrote in a reply to Rep. Lois Frankel (D-Fla.), who gathered signatures from Democratic colleagues calling for the investigation.
"Those alleging sexual assault or criminal sexual conduct deserve to be interviewed by law enforcement professionals, and charging decisions should be made by prosecutors based on the quantum and quality of the admissible and provable evidence," the former prosecutor continued.
Gowdy copied Attorney General Jeff Sessions on the letter. He emphasized that in his "nearly two decades as a prosecutor," sexual abuse cases against women were "among the most significant, difficult, and emotional."
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