Rep. Louis Gohmert’s Train Wreck ‘Terror Baby’ Interview on AC360

On last night’s Anderson Cooper 360, Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-Tx) tried his damnedest to warn Cooper, and the rest of us, that the sky is falling. Actually, he’s warning that it’s raining “Terror Babies,” babies deliberately birthed in the US to be used as passport-having terrorists decades from now.

Anderson Cooper, meanwhile, challenged Gohmert to produce some evidence to support the fetal fire alarm he pulled on the House floor in June. The result was 10 minutes of chaos that left Gohmert no closer to stemming the tide of hypothetical, homicidal infants. (h/t C&L)

For those of you playing along at home, here is the Washington Post “Birth Tourism” article that Gohmert references:

As Cooper points out, while the existence of “birth tourism” suggests the possibility of “Terror Babies” (I call them The Gohmerta), the plausibility of Gohmert’s pile is another matter entirely. What is plausible is the recruitment of already-grown “Terror Former-Babies,” and do you know what our Constitution allows them to do? Buy guns!

For what it’s worth, Gohmert doesn’t appear to be just “scare-mongering,” he seems to be genuinely scared. Would it kill us to look into some neo-natal full body scanners?

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