“What I read said five out of the 14 were working for the FBI, the feds…. What percentage does it take of federal agents to make it a government conspiracy? This has got to stop,” he said.
Texas GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert suggested that the January 6 was a conspiracy set-up by the Democrats and called the arrests of the Capitol rioters “tyranny” in a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas on Sunday.
Gohmert suggested that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was responsible for the violent insurrection that forced lawmakers into hiding and left five people dead, including a Capitol police officer.
“On January 6th, the sergeant at arms had turned down, on behalf of the speaker, having the National Guard there to help protect the Capitol. Why did that happen? You think they were setting things up?” he said in his address at CPAC.
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