Representative Louie Gohmert, Republican of Texas, stated that the January 6 incident was a conspiracy planned by Republicans. Democratic Party In a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas on Sunday, he called the arrest of congressional mobs a “tyranny.”
Gomert recommends the Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi He was responsible for the violent rebellion that forced lawmakers to hide and killed five people, including a congressional policeman.
“On January 6, the Armed Sergeant Representative Speaker refused to let the National Guard there to help protect the Capitol. Why is this? Do you think they are arranging things?” He said in CPAC’s speech.
“We can’t let them intimidate us without protesting. This is the way to treat the arrested-intimidation,” Gomert added.
The East Texas senator who won his seat in 2004 allied with the former president Donald Trump And his priority agenda for the United States after the events of January 6. In the past few months, he has been promoting the former president’s baseless claims about voter fraud, repeatedly downplaying the importance of the uprising, and criticizing the Democratic Party for pushing for an independent investigation into the incident.
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To date, more than 535 suspects have been arrested in connection with the riots in the Capitol. FBI There are still 300 people believed to have committed violent acts within the limits. “This is far from over,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said in June.
Last month, after federal authorities repeatedly debunked conspiracy theories accusing left-wing militants of participating in attacks, Gomert hinted in a keynote speech at the Dallas Conservative Conference that “it’s not just right-wing extremists,” which was associated with the famous QAnon figures. contact.
He is the only active member Congress Speaking at the “For God & Country Patriot Roundup” event that adopted the QAnon slogan “WWG1WGA”.
Gomert continued to promote the theory on Sunday, linking it to the FBI’s infiltration of a group of anti-government extremists who conspired to kidnap Michigan’s Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
“What I read is that 5 out of 14 people are working for the FBI, the FBI… What percentage do federal agents need to make them a government conspiracy? This must stop,” he said.
Gomert also opposed the left-wing criticism of his formal opposition to the federal certification of Wisconsin’s election results.
“Our election was fraudulent. Some of us stood up against it. The Democrats were crazy,” he said, encouraging the crowd to “stand up strong and not be intimidated by the federal government’s use of tyranny to try to stop us.”
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