Twitter Explodes After Gohmert Launches Personal Attack on Strzok: ‘A Despicable Slimebucket’
On Thursday, an already off the rails House Committee Hearing with FBI agent Peter Strzok became an utter trainwreck when Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) opened up his mouth and started to launch accusations at Strzok.
At one point, Gohmert even alluded to Strzok’s affairs during his questioning, asking Strzok about “looking into his wife’s eyes.”
“And I can’t help but wonder, when I see you looking there with a little smirk how many times did you look so innocent into your wife’s eye and lie to her about Lisa,” the lawmaker said.
The hearing erupted and a female Member of the House responded by asking Gohmert if he was off his medication.
On Twitter, the reaction to Gohmert’s personal attack was no less intense.
“Rarely seen a more cowardly act than Rep. Gohmert attacking a witness personally and then trying to get the chairman to refuse him the chance to respond,” CNN’s Ryan Lizza wrote.
Rarely seen a more cowardly act than Rep. Gohmert attacking a witness personally and then trying to get the chairman to refuse him the chance to respond
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) July 12, 2018
His CNN colleague Manu Raju noted he heard someone in the chambers call it an insane asylum, referring to Gohmert.
Gohmert goes there, and the hearing — again erupts — "How many times did you look so innocent into your wife's eyes ….?" he says to Strzok, who was having an affair with Lisa page. Dems yell back. A Dem can be overheard saying: "Insane asylum," referring to Gohmert.
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) July 12, 2018
Others pointed out that even for Gohmert it was a new low, with New York Post’s Jon Podhoretz going as far as to call him “a human piece of dung.”
And Gohmert takes the House Republicans to a whole new low, especially considering who the leader of their party is.
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) July 12, 2018
Louie Gohmert is a ludicrous embarrassment and he should go to a home for the terminally filthy
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) July 12, 2018
Seriously. Louie Gohmert is a human piece of dung.
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) July 12, 2018
Louie Gohmert. I address you. You are a despicable slimebucket.
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) July 12, 2018
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