>> Representative Louie Gohmert who absolutely has refused to wear a mask has been diagnosed
with coronavirus.
He was scheduled to fly to Texas with Donald Trump and then ended up testing positive in
a pre screen at the White House.
Now again, Louie Gohmert is one of these Republican lawmakers who has spoken out against wearing
a mask.
In fact, he recently told CNN, he said this in June actually, if I get it, you'll see
me without a mask.
Okay, okay.
Well, you got it.
You definitely got it.
And he was part of a House Judiciary Committee hearing with William Barr, so that's the Attorney
General.
And he was not wearing a mask when he was walking very, very close to William Barr and
other lawmakers.
I also want to note that Louie Gohmert used the same microphone that other lawmakers used
during the hearing.
So, I'm very understanding toward lawmakers who are concerned that they might have coronavirus
now.
And when Louie Gohmert was asked about this, he said something absolutely ridiculous.
So let's take a look at the next clip.
>> I can't help but think that if I haven't been wearing a mask so much in the last ten
days or so, I really wonder if I would have gotten it.
But I know moving the mask round get just right, I'm bound to put some virus on the
mask that are soaked in that, most likely what happens.
>> But why are you so dumb?
But why?
How did this happen?
>> He can't help but think, he could start to.
So his issue is that he said he got virus on the mask.
So he wiped virus onto the mask with his hands, and if not for the mask, he would have been
fine.
Don't worry about the virus on your hands in this insane fantasy you've cooked up.
You would have been okay if not for the mask.
>> Let me just break this down for you guys in a way that I think is very easy to understand.
So you have Democrats who take this pandemic seriously.
Jerry Nadler, for instance, during the House Judiciary Committee with William Barr, kept
scolding Republican lawmakers who were refusing to wear masks.
At one point, one Republican lawmaker is like, can I take a sip of coffee?
And Nadler was like, no.
>> No you may not.
So and I give you that anecdote because again, Democrats are like, can you guys just please
be adults and understand that getting sick especially at our age is not a good idea?
Please, take care of yourselves, take care of your colleagues, this is important.
But Republicans haven't been taking it seriously and that is reflected in the number of lawmakers
who have tested positive for coronavirus.
So you have Representative Mario Diaz-Balart from Florida tested positive, he's a Republican.
Representative Neal Dunn, a Republican also from Florida tested positive.
Representative Morgan Griffith, a Republican from Virginia tested positive.
Representative Mike Kelly, a Republican from Pennsylvania tested positive.
Representative Ben McAdams, who is a Democrat, tested positive but he is literally the only
Democrat on this list who tested positive.
Representative Tom Rice, a Republican from South Carolina tested positive.
And of course Senator Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, tested positive.
You guys see the trend here, right?
So, this nonsense about maybe I spread the virus all over my face as I was wearing a
mask is ridiculous and he doesn't really wear a mask.
He doesn't take it seriously.
In fact, Jake Sherman, who's a reporter over at Politico, reported on Gohmert testing positive
for coronavirus, and then he received an email from someone on Gohmert's staff, and he shared
it on Twitter.
I wanna share it with you.
Said after we reported that Louie Gohmert was positive, we got an email from a Gohmert
aide.
This is what it said.
Jake, thank you for letting our office know Louie tested positive for coronavirus.
When you write your story, can you include the fact that Louie requires full staff to
be in the office, including three interns, so that we could be an example to America
on how to open up safely.
When probing the office, you might want to ask how often were people berated for wearing
masks.
So Gohmert berates his own staff members for wearing masks and he insists on everyone showing
up to work, even though social distancing is part of the guidelines to stay safe during
the pandemic.
>> Everything I want to say and everything behind it a million times, how is all of this
possible?
How, we finally as a country faced this actual challenge?
Not one where we just decide to attack a country and create some massive quagmire that kills
hundreds of thousands of people.
This one actually hit us.
And we have failed it so thoroughly that our elected, Louie Gohmert is a powerful person.
He has a lot of power and influence in government, and even him getting the virus won't lead
to him taking it seriously.
If he, God forbid, dies he's gonna carve I shouldn't have worn a mask on his tombstone.
He used to take that like someone like them had to get sick.
I remember at the beginning of the pandemic we're like, well, you know what happens when
a representative or senator gets sick, then they're gonna take it seriously.
No, we were stupid.
Even if it hits him, he could be in the hospital, he's still gonna be saying that it's not serious.
And he's gonna be asking for hydroxychloroquine and stuff like that.
We have so thoroughly failed.
And it's one thing to look out and to see 30% of the country doesn't give a damn about
any of this and maybe that's a conservative estimate.
But our leaders don't care either.
And I've got a Twitter window open.
Mitch McConnell's like, he's considering a smaller coronavirus relief package.
They were talking about getting people $100 a week and enhanced unemployment.
What is smaller than that, you've done nothing in months as 100,000 plus additional people
have died and millions more have lost their jobs?
They've done nothing.
And they apparently don't need to do anything because many of them will be reelected.
Louie Gohmert will be in government for the next 20 years probably.
Nothing matters, they can preside over a massive death, and economic catastrophe, and not even
have to pretend to care.
Trump has never once, I understand them in a bubble, correct me if I'm wrong.
I've never seen him actually express remorse for what has happened.
I'm not saying- >> Of course not.
>> He'll blame himself, he'll never do that.
But let's say he says, it's not my fault but my God, the horror of it, that the fact that
this would happen to this country that I love, to the people that, never.
They don't even have to pretend anymore.
And 99% of them are 100% safe in their seats in any given election.
This entire government simply doesn't function.
Most of the electorate doesn't, but the system doesn't literally at all.
There are no checks and balances anymore.
You can do anything you want.
It's a wonder, it's not worse considering that there are no consequences.
>> I love when you go on one of these rants, there's so good, and you're absolutely right.
And just to buttress your point, I mean, remember when we reported on Herman Cain testing positive
for coronavirus and he went to Trump's Tulsa rally.
The rally that everyone was warned against going to, wasn't wearing a mask.
He was around all sorts of people.
He ended up testing positive.
And so his staff updated people on his condition.
He's still in the hospital, guys.
He's in the hospital longer than most COVID patients are treated, and he's on a ventilator.
Now, his staff didn't call it a ventilator, but he's on a ventilator.
They tweet, we know it's been a few days since we last gave you an update on the boss, but
he is still in the hospital being treated with oxygen for his lungs.
Meaning he's on a ventilator.
In the meantime the doctors say his other organs and systems are strong.
Look, part of having the political ideology I guess that we have, that sucks.
Is that, even if I despise someone, I don't want them to die, I don't want them to get
hurt.
I actually do care about human lives, and I want people to stay safe.
And it blows my mind that even after hearing about what happened to Herman Cain, and all
of these other Republican lawmakers who have tested positive for coronavirus, the Republican
Party as a whole and the Trump Administration, does not care about their lives.
They don't care about anyone's life.
I mean, this party is all about individualism, it's all about me, me, me, me.
Even if it means spreading a message that puts the lives of their own colleagues, members
of their own party in danger.
It's incorrect.
And then they'll turn around and say, no, no, we're pro-life.
We totally wanna protect zygotes.
Yep.