It's been a while since we've heard from America's Dumbest Congressman, but that's on us, not him. It's not that Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas has been keeping any quieter: we've just tuned him out to instead deal with the antics of America's Dumbest President and other more consequential bits of national shame.
No, Rep. Louie Gohmert's mouth-hole is still blowing strong, and it piqued our interest to hear that he now believes Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has been spying on him.
“I’ve been told in the past there’s been great concern about who I saw, what I did and that I was being monitored and was even told they know everybody that walks in your office,” Gohmert said Monday in an interview on Fox Business's “Lou Dobbs Tonight.” [...]
“I don’t doubt for a minute that he has people who have been looking into my background. I’ve been told as much by some other folks,” Gohmert said in [another] interview, referring to Rosenstein.
The only reason the deputy attorney general's staff would be looking into Louie Gohmert's background is if they, like we, were deeply interested in the rumors that Louie Gohmert was abandoned in the woods at a tender age and raised by a pack of stray soda can pull-tabs. Or, alternatively, if government agents wanted to know if Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas was neck-deep in efforts to scuttle the Russian election hacking investigation because he had interests of his own to protect.
It is probably neither of those things. The most probable scenario is that Louie Gohmert continues to be both deeply paranoid and deeply, egregiously stupid, and he heard something in some conversation somewhere about how the government could produce records of everyone that walked into Louie's office because Congress is supposed to keep those records, because duh, and transformed it into a story of the Republican Department of Republican Justice spying on him and/or threatening him.
That's almost certainly what's happened here, but if Louie Gohmert genuinely wants us to believe the alternative—that for some reason, the deputy attorney general really has mounted an investigation into Louie Gohmert's own ties to Russian hacking efforts and consequential obstruction of justice efforts—we could also do the decent thing and believe him. Note that the involvement of the deputy attorney general, rather than Attorney General Jeff Sessions himself, would mark their supposed probe into Louie here as almost certainly Russia-based, because that's the only relevant investigation Sessions has recused himself from.
So sure, why not. Louie Gohmert is publicly declaring that he himself has, for some reason, landed under federal suspicion of being involved with acts of espionage, collusion, and treason. It's either that or he is once again just spouting whatever paranoid and buffoonish things leak out of his brain-holes, which would certainly be the norm for America's Dumbest Congressman.