{"id":1070202,"date":"2021-11-01T10:08:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T15:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1070202"},"modified":"2021-11-02T10:15:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T15:15:21","slug":"gohmert-denies-involvement-in-jan-6-riot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1070202","title":{"rendered":"Gohmert denies involvement in Jan. 6 riot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/08\/louie831-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1052847\" \/>WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212;  In response to a recent article in &#8220;Rolling Stone,&#8221; East Texas Comgressman Louie Gohmert is denying involvement in the January 6 Capitol riot. In a prepared statement, Gohmert says, &#8220;No one in my office, including me, participated in the planning of the rally or in any criminal activity on January 6. We did not attend or participate at all. However, I am extremely interested to find out who, besides the FBI operatives, did plan the events on January 6. For the purpose of a potential defamation lawsuit against those making baseless accusations of a crime, I need to know who these persons are who are alleging that I helped.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>The magazine references anonymous sources who were allegedly involved &#8220;in &#8216;dozens&#8217; of planning briefings ahead of that day.&#8221; The article continues, &#8220;These two sources also helped plan a series of demonstrations that took place in multiple states around the country in the weeks between the election and the storming of the Capitol. According to these sources, multiple people associated with the March for Trump and Stop the Steal events that took place during this period communicated with members of Congress throughout this process&#8221; &#8212; and &#8220;the pair both say the members who participated in these conversations or had top staffers join in included&#8230;Gohmert.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; In response to a recent article in &#8220;Rolling Stone,&#8221; East Texas Comgressman Louie Gohmert is denying involvement in the January 6 Capitol riot. In a prepared statement, Gohmert says, &#8220;No one in my office, including me, participated in the planning of the rally or in any criminal activity on January 6. We &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1070202\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gohmert denies involvement in Jan. 6 riot<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1070206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/08\/louie831-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Gohmert denies involvement in Jan. 6 riot","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 07:34:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/08\/louie831-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Gohmert denies involvement in Jan. 6 riot","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1070202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1070204,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070202\/revisions\/1070204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1070206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1070202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1070202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1070202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}