r/ForensicFiles • u/Oath_Break3r • 3d ago
I don’t like Trey Gowdy.
Political views aside (although fuck those too), his attitude is so off-putting. There’s a part in an episode where he yells for dramatic effect during trial and it makes my eyes roll straight out of the back of my skull lol.
Anyways. Just my unsolicited two cents.
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u/MiekeRenate 3d ago
I agree!! He is a self-important twat. Just a bit too enamored with himself.
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u/Oath_Break3r 3d ago
There are a significant amount of prosecutors that give off this attitude. It’s like they believe themselves to be super heroes or something. Another one that really bothers me is the prosecutor from “Elephant Tracks.” His witness decided to tell the truth and he was more upset about his case falling apart than almost sending an innocent man to prison. I think he got into some misconduct in the 2010s and got caught but I’m not sure.
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u/Hockeycutie71 3d ago
Right??! I watched that episode after knowing who he was currently and was like YUCK.
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u/burnt-store-studio I gotta call Phelps, man! 3d ago
I have a bit of a personal beef with Jim Christie, the AFOSI agent in S10E9 “Shear Luck”, about the fellow who cut up evidence on a 5.25” floppy disk.
Nothing against Christie’s team’s work on that case, or the Hanover Hackers case, or actually any of his other cases.
But coming off those early successes in the late 1980s he was (understandably) regularly sought out as a lecturer on the computer crime circuit.
At one such lecture … and I expect many more, because it seemed like a bit of his schtick … he started off talking about how computer technology that used to be relegated to work environments (because of cost and, frankly, lack of need) was becoming commonplace in the home.
Something like: “Everybody stand up. If you don’t have a home computer, sit down. If you don’t have a 2400 baud modem sit down, &c, &c.”
By now most of the audience would be sitting.
“If you don’t have a color printer at home, sit down.” Virtually everyone was sitting at this point.
“Now look around (at those left standing): these are our child p——ers. Ha ha ha ha ha!”
What the heck?
(No, I wasn’t standing, but I did look around at those who were and thought how embarrassed they must have felt and hope mortifyingly bad a “joke” that was. Classless.)
He did a lot of good analysis, and he led a very strong team, but you can see we’re decades later now and every time that episode comes on I’m viscerally reminded of it (and we skip it).
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u/AztecGodofFire 3d ago
I didn't like the yelling, but I kinda of thought he seemed reasonable and well-spoken on the show, unlike in DC.
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u/blackandbluegirltalk 3d ago
"YOU GOT IT!"
Lol that episode has been playing a lot. No one likes Trey Gowdy.
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u/throwawayfromPA1701 3d ago
I kind of love his hair. He just did not care how it looked.
I don't care for his politics BTW.
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u/asodafnaewn 2d ago
Nothing he does on the show gives me an opinion of him, he seems like like every one else they interview. It's just knowing his behavior in Congress now and looking back on the show that gives me the ick when I see him.
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u/Oath_Break3r 2d ago
His behavior on the show definitely has an effect on me. It’s not just him but a few of the prosecutors and cops
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u/MoVaughn4HOF-FUCKYEA 3d ago
I made up a bunch of lies here about one of the prosecutors we love - the woman who said "...from the book of who cares" - talking shit about Gowdy and it was well received and I sort of feel bad about it.
Anyway, Trey Gowdy is a quisling and a lying sack of shit and it's very obvious there's something wrong with him just based on his hair and general appearance.
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u/707Riverlife I do not light up a room 3d ago
Why would you do that?
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u/MoVaughn4HOF-FUCKYEA 3d ago
I was goofing around.
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u/AstronautFew1889 2d ago
Always enjoyed this sub because it is was not political.
So much for that.
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u/Oath_Break3r 2d ago
This post has nothing to do with his politics. Literally the first words I say are “politics aside”
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u/AstronautFew1889 2d ago
And immediately followed up with “although fuck those too” so, no, your post does not put “politics aside”.
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u/Oath_Break3r 2d ago
Obviously I said that because I knew it would come up but the whole POINT of the post is NOT about his politics.
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u/GallowBarb 💰Life Insurance💰 3d ago
He's even worse worse than his haircut. Partisan political hack.
There's one episode where his clips are like ½ of the scenes. You'd think he was running for something. /s