If you were to create a goofy-looking character for a second-rate sit-com who was an ignorant lunatic, you might name him Louie Gohmert.
Sometimes facts are just as strange as fiction – but neither are stranger than Gohmert.
Gohmert, a former GOP congressman from Texas, believed that Democrats stole the presidential election in 2020 but offered no evidence to support their belief.
Dozens of judges ruled there was no evidence that fraud played a significant part in the election.
This did not deter Gohmert and his friend, Trump attorney Sidney Powell — the same Sidney Powell who was indicted for trying to overturn the Georgia election results in the 2020 election and currently faces federal charges.
Gohmert and Powell asked the U.S. Supreme Court to declare that Vice President Mike Pence had the authority to overturn the election results and choose President Trump and Pence as the winners of the 2000 election.
The famously humorless Supreme Court judges responded by laughing at Gohmert and Powell.
Gohmert does not support climate change and says that evidence that supports climate change is “fraudulent.” He advanced the notion of “terror babies,” which argues that terrorists move to the United States and impregnate US woman and raise the babies to be terrorists. He supported the trans-Alaskan pipeline because it meant that caribou would have more sex.
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Gohmert also voted against making lynching a federal crime.
He said the Sandy Hill shooting, where 20 children, teachers, and administrators, were murdered, would not have happen if the principal had a Bushmaster semi-automatic rifle. He tested positive for the coronavirus after attending after a House judiciary meeting without wearing a mask. He said he believed he got the virus from wearing a mask.
Gohmert falsely stated that Germany had a mist that killed the coronavirus. While appearing on Varney and Co. on Fox Business News, he accused billionaire George Soros, a Jew of conspiring with the Nazis during World War. The statement was so egregious that Varney repudiated it on the air. “I want to make clear those views are not shared by me, this program or anyone at Fox Business.”
Steve Schmidt, a former GOP strategist, described Gohmert as “America’s craziest and dumbest congressman.” Schmidt then made a point of insisting that he was not using hyperbole. He further acknowledged that Gohmert was the “craziest and dumbest congressman” at a time when the Republican Party was positively bubbling with crazy and dumb congressmen. “He is truly nuts,” Schmidt said.
After the US Supreme rejected his law suit, Gohmert, appearing on Newsmax, on January 2, 2001, called for violence in the streets
Four days later hundreds of insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol.
Gohmert retired from Congress to run for attorney general of Texas. The people of Texas soundly rejected him in the GOP primary in favor of re-electing Ken Paxton, another extreme Trump supporter,
The deep-red Texas House of Representatives impeached Paxton in late May, charging him with a sustained and years-long series of misconduct and law-breaking.
