As news breaks that Jared Kushner had White House "policy" meetings with a man whose company would soon give Jared's desperately troubled real estate business a $184 million loan, you will be happy to know none of this rampant corruption is troubling the good minds at Fox News. The real scandal here is something something Hillary Clinton!
“Yes, and my understanding is that Jeff Sessions and some of the DOJ are looking into some of the Hillary Clinton stuff, perhaps on uranium one, but there is so much involving the emails,” Gohmert replied. “And, you know, okay, did Comey only come forward before the election about ‘we’re reopening Hillary’s case’ because some of the FBI agents said ‘either you come forward or we’re going to quit, and we’re going to blow the whistle on how pro-Hillary you’ve been?’ All of that needs to be investigated, and it involved DOJ and FBI — that needs a second counsel to do that.”
That's right, America, you have now been graced with the words of America's Dumbest Congressman, Louie Gohmert, tasked with explaining to the audience of Fox & Friends that ex-FBI director James Comey only came out with his letter "reopening" the settled case of Hillary Clinton's Email Management Protocols immediately before the Clinton-Trump election because he was being blackmailed by other FBI agents who knew just how pro-Hillary he was. Or something.
That James Comey only pursued the case of Hillary Clinton's Email Management Protocols because he was savagely pro-Clinton and this was all eleventy-dimensional chess to hurt Donald Trump is taken as article of faith, among Trump supporters. It needs no evidence. There may be a germ of truth in the notion that lower-ranking FBI teams (the New York office is usually inserted as the suspect, in this one) wanted the FBI to intervene in the election above and beyond Comey's dramatic election-eve "reopening" of a closed case, but that is not evidence of Comey cooking the books on Clinton's behalf. The man's insertion of the FBI into the final weeks of the election likely won Trump the presidency, intended or not. The general premise Trump supporters have latched onto is that there was a wide-ranging conspiracy to elect Hillary Clinton that just happened to accidentally help Trump at every turn.
But here's the problem with that theory. The FBI did indeed "reopen" the case. And the FBI, as predicted by most informed observers, found nothing. The new emails were, as suspected, merely copies of the emails investigators already had. The whole thing was a bust, albeit a possibly election-skewing bust, and if there were FBI agents who said "either you come forward or we're going to quit" in their efforts to roust a presidential election over demonstrably nothing, that indeed would show malfeasance within the FBI—malfeasance in which James Comey, of all people, would come off looking like the good guy.
So here's Rep. Louie Gohmert, who will go to his grave insisting that if we just investigated Hillary Clinton one more time he's quite sure we'll find nefarious email-doings that next time around. Or "perhaps" Uranium One doings. Or whatever it takes. Conservatism now exists only as bucket for conspiracy theories to be ladled into; he knows in his brain that no matter what profits Donald Trump rakes in from his own government security detail or from hotel bookings of friendly or would-be friendly lobbyist groups, no matter who Jared Kushner has been meeting with in the White House or how many millions he collects from the very same individuals, coincidentally, soon afterward, America should now and forever dedicate itself to figuring out something, in some year, on some topic, that Hillary Clinton ought to be jailed for.
This is all of Republicanism. Louie Gohmert, America's Dumbest Congressman, is not alone in his quest; he is joined by the vast majority of America's Dumbest Caucus. House Republicanism is the spark that lit the Donald Trump garbage fire, and here's Louie Effing Gohmert roasting marshmallows on his fingers.