A Republican lawmaker invoked Paul Manafort's adult children in a bizarre defense of Homeland Securi

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Business Insider

A Republican lawmaker invoked Paul Manafort's adult children in a bizarre defense of Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen
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A Republican lawmaker likened the Trump administration's discontinued child-separation policy at the US-Mexico border to the fate of President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, who faces increased scrutiny after allegedly breaching his plea agreement to charges of conspiracy and obstruction of justice.

"I'm always glad to fill in the gaps of people's knowledge or ignorance in a particular area," Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas said during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration and border security. "So let me just state for those who are not aware ... parents are separated from children every single day of every year, year after year."

"And parents who have probable cause, they committed a crime, are separated from their children and those are usually US citizens," Gohmert added. "It's what happens when a parent is believed to have committed a crime. [Special counsel Robert Mueller] did it, I know he's a hero to some folks around here, he did it to Manafort, separated him from his two beautiful children. It happens."

Manafort is the father of two adult daughters: Jessica, an independent filmmaker who reportedly changed her last name to distance herself from an unwanted "public perception," and Andrea, who described her father as someone with "no moral or legal compass" and a "a sick f---ing tyrant," according to hacked text messages.

Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/paul-manafort-children-separation-louie-gohmert-2018-12

[Glamrock]

1. I'd be on the ground, puking my guts out

if I used that much spin.

[silverweb]

2. Goofy Gohmert strikes again.

The idiot's as stupid as tRump and just as mendacious. Why does anyone even publish his shit? It should just be buried.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Comic relief! By the way, that's "Congressman Gohmert" to you!

A Two-fer.

[silverweb]

13. You have a point there.

I hadn't thought about the comic relief aspect.

On edit: And no, he's not "Congressman" to me - and thank goodness he's not from my state. He's just Goofy Gohmert.

[Codifer]

17. Why did I automatically

think that Gomer just told Bachman that the back of her dress was tucked into her pantyhose?

I must be tired.

Or sick.

or both.


sorry

[Judi Lynn]

21. That view with Michelle did puzzle me. Your explanation would definitely cover it! n/t

[NanceGreggs]

3. Have Manafort's children ...

... been kidnapped and placed in cages?

If so, I must have missed that news item.

[LakeSuperiorView]

5. Labeling something that Gomert said as bizarre is redundant.

Goofy Louie is always a few bulbs short of a Christmas tree...

[marble falls]

15. Hell, he's a few bulbs short of a full short string of lights. Bless his little heart but ...

the man is a fucking disgrace - he don't mean no harm. Like my meemaw usta say.

[RVN VET71]

6. Afraid to ask, but I feel I must:

Are Louie's voters all completely shite for brains stupid, or do they just enjoy the comic relief?

[BaileyBill]

8. Mostly choice A.

When I had to go to Tyler on business I would try to fill up with gas before I left and took a sandwich just so I wouldn't contribute to the idiots there.

[Judi Lynn]

22. Your idea, once expressed publicly, may inspire people to open fast food places

outside Tyler on the highways, with giant signs claiming "last chance before Tyler" just as they used to do before travelers entered the desert during long trips.

[not fooled]

12. As John Fugelsang just pointed out

on the Stephanie Miller show, the case could be made that the culprit is defunding and wrecking public education, so that enough people vote for a reality show star for president. In this case they vote for a catastrophically ignorant, doofus teabagger with no business being in Congress.

[RVN VET71]

18. This guy was a judge for 10 years

Imagine him sentencing people? Required a guy with HIV who was busted for car theft to notify, on a notarized form, all sexual partners of his condition and provide copies to the court.

This idiot got a JD from Baylor, which university has its own problems lately.

[not fooled]

19. OMG

I had no idea--assumed he fell off a turnip truck somewhere on a Texas backroad.

That's terrifying.

[RVN VET71]

20. That's where Texas' judges come from!

[marble falls]

16. I can't explain it. But then I got Roger Williams and he's no prize, either. And theres ...

a bunch more.

But, Louie has been winning since 2006 with at least 75% of the vote. He was sent to school by the Army and he was defense attorney in the Army for four or so years. He was elected different levels of Judge several times.

I don't get it. His family has been in Texas since the 1840's. Must be something in the water that makes an accomplished man with a such total deficit in empathy, understanding or love of others. And that 75% of the voting public that votes him into one office after another and re-electing him non-stop since the eighties.

A niece and her family, and a sister of my wife's live in Hutto. Those people were "something else" with their GWB fetishism.

Gotta be the water.

[tanyev]

7. Being separated from 2 adult children who would rather spend Christmas with daddy's money than daddy

is EXACTLY the same as a baby taken away from unsuspecting parents and never returned? I hope somebody labels this guy's shoes R and L. No, I take it back. I hope they don't.

[Scarsdale]

9. Screwy Louie

to the rescue. How did HE miss being appointed tRump's CoS?? Manafort's "kids" distanced themselves from their felon father. It was their own, adult choice dumbass.

[UpInArms]

10. Paul Manafort's daughter changes her last name to avoid 'public perception'

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/03/paul-manaforts-daughter-changes-last-name-avoid-public-perception/

The daughter of President Donald Trump's disgraced campaign chairman is changing her surname to separate herself from public perception.

... snip...

“I am a passionate liberal and a registered Democrat and this has been difficult for me. Although I am ‘the daughter of,’ I am very much my own person and hopefully people can realise that,” she told the Los Angeles Times in July.

[muntrv]

11. You can't spell Gohmert without Gomer.

[marble falls]

14. And I bet he sits up front at church.