Lost in wingnut Idaho Rep. Bryan Zollinger’s (R) unhinged idea that George Soros orchestrated Nazis in Charlottesville to make consevatives look bad, was Louie Gohmert (R-Texas, hold my beer).

Spelling out his baseless scenario [on FOX News Channel], Gohmert suggests the Democratic mayor of Charlottesville and the Democratic governor of Virginia somehow conspired to lure white supremacists and liberal counter-protesters to the city, made sure they battled in the streets, and that law enforcement did nothing in response.

“There is a strategy to make race the number one issue in 2018 and 2020. They think it’s their ticket back this is going to blow up in their face,” Gohmert said.

Gohmert even claims there are “witnesses” who saw KKK and Black Lives Matters protesters get off the same buses in Charlottesville, implying they were simply paid actors by Democrats. Gohmert urged Trump to appoint an independent counsel to investigate Democrats, even though presidents do not, and cannot, appoint independent counsels.

“We need an investigation as to what happened in Charlottesville,” he demanded. “Who paid for the different groups to come in? Who ordered the funneling of those groups together? Who ordered to stand by while the violence goes on?”

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Note that not once during the Fox interview when asked about the deadly violence unleashed by Nazis and white supremacists did Gohmert ever condemn the Nazis and white supremacists. He only condemned Democrats for supposedly helping to stage the deadly confrontation.

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