Louie Gohmert Compares Manafort Jail Time To Family Separation Policy

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Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) on Thursday compared the Trump administration’s policy of systematically separating every family arrested while crossing the border with the “separation” former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort faced — from his adult children — as a result of his criminal misconduct.

“It’s what happens when a parent is believed to have committed a crime,” Gohmert told Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen during a hearing. “Mueller did it, and I know he’s a hero to some folks around here, he did it to Manafort, separated him from his two beautiful children.”

Trump’s since-discontinued policy of separating every family arrested at the border came as a result of his administration’s “zero tolerance” policy, which required criminally prosecuting every adult arrested while crossing the border, including those seeking asylum.

Paul Manafort’s children are both adults, both in their 30s.

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