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Gohmert: ‘If you’re a Republican, you can’t even lie to Congress or lie to an FBI agent or they’re coming after you’
The Hill ^ | 6/03/22 | Caroline Vakil

Posted on 06/04/2022 3:09:47 AM PDT by Libloather

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) railed against the indictment of former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro while saying in an interview on Friday that “if you’re a Republican, you can’t even lie to Congress or lie to an FBI agent or they’re coming after you.”

Gohmert, speaking to Newsmax in an interview on Friday, was asked to comment on the Friday indictment of Navarro by a federal grand jury after the former Trump official failed to comply with the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

“It actually puts an exclamation point on the fact that we have a two-tiered justice system. If you’re a Republican, you can’t even lie to Congress or lie to an FBI agent or they’re coming after you. They’re gonna bury you. They’re gonna put you in the D.C. jail and terrorize and torture you and not live up to the Constitution there,” Gohmert responded.

He argued that there was a double standard to how Democrats and Republicans were being treated, pointing to the acquittal of prominent Democratic attorney Michael Sussman, who was being investigated by special counsel John Durham, as one example.

“So [it’s] very clear. If you’re a Democrat, then you can lie. You can cheat. You can do whatever you want,” he said.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
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...where evidence is being gathered and censorship is the norm.

1 posted on 06/04/2022 3:09:47 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather
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2 posted on 06/04/2022 3:13:06 AM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Lindsey Graham: How can anyone be Mad at Joe Biden)
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To: AnthonySoprano

You should add the link - here it is

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/06/15/fbi-agent-after-interviewing-clintons-it-staffer-he-lied-his-ass-off/


3 posted on 06/04/2022 3:22:28 AM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: Libloather

I’d say vote them all out, but they don’t like the way we vote and decided to do that for us.


4 posted on 06/04/2022 3:30:57 AM PDT by Nateman (If Mohammad was not the Anti Christ he sure did come in as a strong second.)
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To: Libloather

All together now: “I can’t recall”


5 posted on 06/04/2022 3:42:36 AM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos.)
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To: Libloather

They did the same on drunk Paul pelosi story


6 posted on 06/04/2022 3:43:55 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Libloather

Silver-tongue he ain’t. Crossed him off my list of the possible spokesmen for the next Republican president.


7 posted on 06/04/2022 3:57:37 AM PDT by Krosan
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To: Libloather

We can point our fingers right at traitorous snakes like Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCathy for enabling this persecution. It all started with McConnell, that drunk Bhoener, and the Bush Crime Family trying to squash the Tea Party movement and keep control of the GOP.


8 posted on 06/04/2022 4:20:02 AM PDT by WMarshal (Neocons and leftists are the same species of vicious rat.)
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To: Libloather

But democrats are exempt from prosecution.


9 posted on 06/04/2022 4:55:49 AM PDT by I want the USA back (A totally corrupt media willingly lies to protect a totally corrupt administration. )
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To: Libloather

DSBI Deep $tate Bureau of Intimidation.


10 posted on 06/04/2022 4:56:30 AM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: Krosan

If only Repubs fought against Dems as hard as they fight against Repubs.


11 posted on 06/04/2022 5:08:04 AM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: bray

That’s most likely because most republicans are actually democrats who ran on the republican ticket.

For one thing, in some places, it was their only chance at getting elected.

The other is so they could enact their agenda once they were in, all the while still pretending to be republicans.

It’s become blindingly obvious that the vast majority of politicians have/had no intention whatsoever of actually representing us. They got elected and seem to feel that they deserved the lifetime appointment of being our overlords.


12 posted on 06/04/2022 5:19:44 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…..)
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To: Libloather

You own the house and senate and can pay off or scare the jury or hand pick them. The judges are obama appointed. It’s a set up from the beginning and they know it. The midterms “should be” a slaughter. But rogers stone even said there will be a new pandemic that will allow them to make mail in voting legal. I don’t know how they can without the legislature doing it but they did it in 2020 with no investigation or charges. If they allow mail ins for midterms they will do it again in 2024 and the USA is done.


13 posted on 06/04/2022 5:32:40 AM PDT by glimmerman70
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To: Libloather
“So [it’s] very clear. If you’re a Democrat, then you can lie. You can cheat. You can do whatever you want,”

Which is why it is imperative to win control of both houses.

14 posted on 06/04/2022 6:10:22 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Libloather

Doesn’t need to be a lie for the Democrat’s law enforcers to get involved... it could be any statement with which they disagree or triggers them. In today’s America, the defendant must prove his innocence or go bankrupt.


15 posted on 06/04/2022 6:27:04 AM PDT by Tallguy
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To: SaveFerris; AnthonySoprano

More informative (including his name, Bryan Pagliano):

The Missing Man at the Center of Hillary Clinton’s Email Scandal

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-missing-man-at-the-center-of-hillary-clintons-email-scandal

Judicial Watch: Clinton IT staffer pleads 5th 125 consecutive times

https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/22/politics/bryan-pagliano-judicial-watch-deposition/index.html


16 posted on 06/04/2022 6:38:06 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: logi_cal869

Yep


17 posted on 06/04/2022 6:40:30 AM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: glimmerman70

we are already done. they didn’t go to the measures they did to ever intend to give up power. if voters hate them now it will be several times worse by november at the rate things are happening. they aren’t worried.

this is the time to leave, if you have a plan b that looks relatively sound in the current scenario. if I had to pick a place, I would be looking at brazil/argentina/chile, but haven’t been that far south in many years and have no real insight.

but I do believe we are at the ‘2nd warning bell’ if not later. leave while it is an option, if you have options that make sense under current situation. (example of not making sense - new zealand or australia, which have turned out to be more easily transformed into orwellian states than I think anyone would have expected)


18 posted on 06/04/2022 6:43:25 AM PDT by WoofDog123
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I maybe a fool but still hold out a small bit of hope. If the midterms are stolen then they will have another 2 years to push through enough to likely finish us. If they steal the midterms they will steal 2024.

I had a long talk with my uncle who is a democrat or he was. Now he said he is independent. He said to many times your forced to vote for lesser of the 2 evils. But now the dems have went so radical they have went power and money hungry. More than usual. He said it’s so corrupt at this point they will do what ever they need to in order to hold the power. He said the only real hope is the republicans take the house and senate to block the rest of the agenda and get conservative in office in 2024 to put back the policy that was working. I asked him if he saw 2000 miles and he said no but he absolutely believes it. He said the problem is what are they going to do about it. They own the judicial system and media. The only way they leave is kicking and screaming. If the republicans take back the house and senate he said you won’t see them do investigations like the dems are. The dems will make things up destroy people so they can hold power while republicans will at this point work on policy. If the investigate there will be some politicians retire and walk with millions and very low level people will go to jail. But won’t see much of it from republicans because they have dirt on them also. It’s a big club and we aren’t invited. So that was coming from a Democrat. He said if Trump don’t run DeSantis would make a good President that could make enough change to get another 4 years.


19 posted on 06/04/2022 7:28:01 AM PDT by glimmerman70
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To: Libloather

The problem is worse than asymmetrical treatment of liars not under judicial oath. Who decides what is “true” or “false” these days, except in the simplest of cases? Leftists.

So you can “lie” by telling what some would consider to be the truth. As in:

- It seems likely the COVID vaccines are ineffective and more dangerous than previously thought. (Disinformation here, followed by deplatforming, but not yet a jailable offense.)

- Or, “This transgendered woman started out as a man, has changed “its” secondary sexual characteristics by virtue of surgery and heavy hormonal manipulation, but is still a man.

In politics and law, there’s the concept of “the whole truth and nothing but the truth”. That’s gone out the window. Lying by insinuation or omission is considered common practice these days. But, whether you’re called out for it definitely depends on your political leanings.


20 posted on 06/04/2022 7:32:07 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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