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.
Louie Gohmert compares jailing Paul Manafort (separating him from his adult children) with the Trump administration's systematic family separations of migrants and asylum seekers. pic.twitter.com/oRhTZinnzV
— Matt Shuham (@mattshuham) December 20, 2018
“Louie, Louie, oh baby, you gotta go”…
Hmmm. Were Manafort’s children kept in cages or concentration camps?
I will not outlive Louie Gohmert.
Those of you who do … you know what you can do for me.
And as the kids say, TIA.
Someone needs to drop a large weight on Louis
