Louie Gohmert in Speeches at CPAC (2020s)

On Crime: People arrested for insurrection are political prisoners

Gohmert suggested that Pelosi was to blame for the violent siege that sent lawmakers fleeing for safety. "On January 6th, the sergeant at arms had turned down, on behalf of the speaker, having National Guard there to help protect the Capitol. Why did that happen? You think they were setting things up?" said Gohmert. As for the suspects in the attack, he portrayed them as political prisoners who are being denied access to 14,000 hours of surveillance footage that might help prove their innocence. Source: Dallas Morning News on 2021 CPAC Conference Jul 11, 2021

On Health Care: Florida is oasis of freedom in nation of oppressive lockdown

The country's largest annual gathering of conservatives began in Orlando, and Florida was front and center. Gov. Ron DeSantis kicked off the event and touted his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and Florida's relatively lax social-distancing protocols that enabled this year's Conservative Political Action Conference to be held indoors and in-person in former President Donald Trump's home state.

"We are in an oasis of freedom in a nation that's suffering from the yoke of oppressive lockdowns,'' DeSantis said during a speech that mostly mirrored a stump-style campaign address. "Florida got it right, and the lockdown states got it wrong."

The former president turned Florida resident maintains his grip on the Republican Party and successfully morphed the Conservative Political Action Conference, traditionally a place for Republicans with different ideologies, into a Trump-only affair.

Source: Tampa Bay Times on 2021 CPAC Conference Jul 11, 2021

The above quotations are from Speeches at Conservative Political Action Conferences (2020s). Click here for other excerpts from Speeches at Conservative Political Action Conferences (2020s). Click here for other excerpts by Louie Gohmert. Click here for a profile of Louie Gohmert.
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