Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) thinks Trump administration aide Peter Navarro’s indictment on contempt expenses Friday is a tragic signal that America is screwed up.
It’s not as a result of the Texas congressman thinks Navarro ought to have adopted the regulation and cooperated with a Home choose committee’s investigation of the U.S. Capitol riot however as a result of Navarro’s arrest Friday signifies that Republicans may need to inform the reality when coping with Congress or regulation enforcement.
Navarro was taken off a aircraft at a Washington-area airport Friday after the indictment on contempt of Congress expenses was unsealed. He later appeared earlier than a decide who launched him on the situation that he notify the courtroom earlier than touring.
Gohmert appeared Friday on Newsmax and lamented that Navarro’s indictment means “if you’re a Republican, you’ll be able to’t even deceive Congress or deceive an FBI agent or they’re coming after you.”
Gohmert, a former lawyer and decide, stated that Navarro was the sufferer of “a two-tiered justice system.”
He stated he was particularly angered that Navarro’s indictment got here in the identical week {that a} jury acquitted Michael Sussman, a lawyer for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential marketing campaign, of expenses that he had lied to the FBI.
Nevertheless, many Twitter customers identified that Gohmert was merely offended that his fellow social gathering members weren’t being allowed to lie beneath oath.
This has been an emotional week for Gohmert, who went viral on Thursday after he chastised Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) for suggesting that he and his fellow Republicans are unwilling to entertain doable options to gun violence as an indication that they help killers greater than schoolchildren.
“How dare you? You suppose we don’t have hearts,” Gohmert stated.
