Gohmert talks about street violence after his lawsuit is closed

Rep. Louie GohmertLouis (Louie) Buller Gohmert Appeals Court Rejects Gohmert’s Election Process Against Pence Pence ‘Welcomes’ Legislators’ Efforts to’ Objection ‘to Electoral College Results Judge Rejects Gohmert’s Election Process Against Pence MORE (R-Texas) responded to the rejection of its lawsuit against Vice President Pence on Saturday, telling Newsmax that a court’s refusal to force Pence to override presidential election results served essentially as an appeal to Americans to incite violence in the streets.

“The end result is that the court is saying, ‘we are not going to touch this, you have no medicine,'” Gohmert told Newsmax.

“Essentially, the decision would be, ‘you have to go out on the streets and be as violent as the antifa, BLM’,” he added.

Gohmert was referring to protests that sometimes turned violent during the summer when anti-fascist and Black Lives Matter protesters took to the streets after the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd during meetings with police officers.

Gohmert criticized the court and others for not hearing evidence that he and other President TrumpDonald Trump’s court rejects Gohmert’s electoral lawsuit against Pence Kentucky Governor calls McConnell’s house vandalism ‘unacceptable’ Pence ‘welcomes’ efforts by lawmakers to ‘raise objections’ to Electoral College results MORE they claimed that it will prove that widespread electoral fraud occurred during the 2020 elections. Dozens of lawsuits in various key battlefield states brought about by the Trump campaign were launched without any evidence of widespread electoral fraud.

Top federal officials, including Attorney General William BarrBill BarrSenate Democrats scold Republican Party colleagues who say they will oppose Electoral College results 11 Senate Republicans say they will oppose Electoral College results Wednesday Proud Boys will attend the January 6 rallies in DC “incognito” MORE and former head of cybersecurity, Christopher Krebs, also ensured the security of the election.

The Gohmert lawsuit, along with other House Republicans, served as a remote attempt to fulfill the president’s wishes to overturn the results of the November elections, which his legal advisers sought to do for weeks, alleging fraud on major battlegrounds, like Georgia, Pennsylvania and Michigan.

A federal appeals court on Saturday rejected an action by Gohmert (R-Texas) and other Republicans seeking to expand Vice President Pence’s legal authority to effectively overthrow the elected president Joe BidenJoe BidenAppeals court rejects Gohmert’s electoral lawsuit against Pence Romney: Plan to challenge the ‘blatant ploy’ election that ‘dangerously threatens’ the Pence country’ welcomes’ lawmakers’ efforts to ‘raise objections’ to the results of the Electoral Collegeelectoral victory of.

Congressman’s comments come before a rally planned for January 6 on the streets of Washington DC, a last-ditch effort by supporters of President Trump to show opposition to Congressional certification of the Electoral College vote, scheduled to take place on the same day.

Fear of a 2017 carnage-like scene in Charlottesville, Virginia. It took some DC companies, including a hotel frequented by the far-right organization “Proud Boys”, to close on the day of the rally.

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