John Ratcliffe, also a Texas Republican, similarly said Trump was being treated below the law, rather than above it or on par with it. “He is pursuing justice.”Įarlier in the hearing, Rep. “What he is doing is not obstructing justice,” Gohmert said of Trump’s efforts to push back on Mueller’s investigation. It’s certainly an argument that tugs at the heartstrings of Republican voters across the country who consider the federal government to be an intrusive force in their lives through taxation, regulation and the enforcement of generations of laws at odds with local social standards. Louie Gohmert of Texas characterized as a big, bad Justice Department. The Republican case for Trump’s defense is that he is a citizen under harassment from what Rep. Trump himself has accused Mueller of deleting messages between the two. The watchdog found that some 19,000 messages were initially missing from FBI records due to a technical error. Mueller answered no, that he had not investigated the formatting of phones, pointing instead to the findings of a Justice Department internal watchdog that did probe the matter. “Did you order an investigation into the deletion and reformatting of their government phones?” "Did you ever order anybody to investigate the deletion of all of their texts off of their government phones?” Gohmert asked, meaning messages between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, the FBI lawyer and agency attorney who had an affair and were caught texting negatively about Trump on their work phones. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, appeared to refer to a baseless conspiracy theory during the Mueller hearings on Wednesday, asking the former special counsel about the formatting of a pair of FBI cellphones and their text messages.
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