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October, 2019
On
the House floor Thursday, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) said the way
House Democrats were running the impeachment inquiry into President
Donald Trump was “about to push this country to a civil war.”
Gohmert
said, “Never in the history of this country have we had such gross
unfairness that one party would put armed guards with guns to prevent
the duly authorized people from being able to hear the witnesses and
see them for themselves.
And
then, oh, we hear from this resolution today, we’re going to send
you the depositions after we get through doctoring and looking at and
editing the transcripts, we’ll send you those, so you have the
evidence you need.
That’s
not the kind of evidence that a coup should be based on. If we’re
going to have what they’re trying to legalize as a coup, we ought
to have a right to see each of those witnesses.”
He
added, “You see, they want it to be a one-sided, non-due process,
sham court. It’s about to push this country to a civil war if they
were to get their wishes.
And
if there’s one thing I don’t want to see in my lifetime, I don’t
want to ever have participation in it’s a civil war.
Some
historian, I don’t remember who said, guns are only involved in the
last phase of a civil war. What’s gone on here is not protected the
Constitution. It’s not protected the institutions. It’s not
protected this little experiment in self-government. What it has done
is put it all at risk.”
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