Former GOP Lawmaker Says His Old Colleagues Have Serious Cognitive Issues

Former Republican lawmaker Denver Riggleman has been all over the news recently promoting his new book, but a recent claim that he made stuck out as more important than others. Riggleman claims that some of his former colleagues - Republicans in Congress - are clearly suffering from, as he put it, serious cognitive issues. He then specifically named Louie Gohmert and Paul Gosar, which definitely seems like a real possibility at this point. Farron Cousins discusses this.

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Former Republican congressman Denver Riggleman has been in the news quite a bit recently, right? He's the guy who said that there was a call from the White House switchboard to somebody participating in the Capital Riot. And of course he's got a new book out. New book is called The Breach, the Untold Story of the investigation into January 6th, which actually came out yesterday. So if you're inclined, whatever, I don't care. Um, but the thing is, Mr. Riggleman was a Republican member of Congress and he left, I believe in 2020. He ended up working for the Capital Riot Committee because they wanted to show, Hey, look, we got a Republican here. Um, but in this new book, in addition to lots of information about the January 6th investigation, he also goes after a couple of his former Republican colleagues who he believes are suffering from quote, serious cognitive issues.

So let me, let me read a little bit of this here, uh, backstory first, cuz I don't wanna have to read all this, so I'll just kind of paraphrase. Um, Mr. Riggleman, when he came to Congress, he got a part of the Tea Party caucus, you know, the Freedom Caucus idiots, um, because he thought, you know, he, he being a rational person, yeah, I could totally make these people more rational. And then allegedly, he quickly realized, Oh wait, I can't because these people are cuckoo banana pants. So he said, when he got in there, he quote, began to understand that some of my colleagues had fully bought into even the more unhinged conspiracy theories I had been seeing out on the campaign trail. Now, the Guardian reports, this riman describes one meeting in which Gomer Louis Gomer promoted a conspiracy theory related to master algorithms saying he suspected there was a secret technology shadow banning conservatives across all platforms, adding that others not at along, though, of course, that's crazy, he says, he said something to that effect during the meeting in question, He then added that Louis Gomer and Paul Gosar seemed to be joined at the brain stem when it came to their eagerness to believe wild, dramatic fantasies about Democrats, the media and big tech.

I came to believe Gosar and Gomer may have had serious cognitive issues. I, I came to think that years ago, I, I think most people watching this also came to that same conclusion a very, very long time ago. You listen to Louis Gomer talk for about 30 seconds and you're like, Oh yeah, something's wrong, Like, something's not right. This is not how a normal person would talk. Certainly not somebody that we would want representing another human being, let alone an entire district in the US House of Representatives. Paul Gosar, of course, is just filled with hate. And,

Uh, his own family has spoken out against him many times. They actually endorsed his opponent, um, in his congressional race. They've, you know, put it out in newspapers how dangerous he is. So yes, I say Ri men's assessment of these two is 100% correct. Now, Riman had left Congress before some of these other Wackadoos got in there, right? He wasn't there with Marjorie Taylor Green or Lauren Bobert or Madison Coor. And had he been, I'm sure he'd have some wonderfully fantastic stories to tell us about those lunatic, but he knows what he was there with, and he knew that even back then, even before this whole Trump cult had fully formed, he knew there was a problem with these people, possibly legitimate cognitive problems. And I think that's something that we need to take a good hard look at, right? We need to fully understand that it's not normal to embrace the wackiest of the conspiracy theories out there, right?

That's, that's for the fringe, that's, that's for the true nutts out there, or at least it used to be, not so anymore. The lunatic are running the asylum. And I, I know I've said that about a million times in the last three weeks alone, but folks, it's getting bad. It's getting real bad. And some of the nuttiest people you can imagine are being called nutty by their own former colleagues, members of the same party.