Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) has praised a girl and left her with a present after she pled responsible earlier this yr to storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Dr. Simone Gold, an anti-vaccine advocate who reportedly ignored police and gave a speech to fellow rioters on Jan. 6, pleaded responsible in March to her function within the lethal assault.
Gold was sentenced to 2 months in jail, though she was launched from a Miami federal facility two weeks earlier than her sentence was up, in line with MedPage Immediately.
Gold, who reportedly lives in Florida and isn’t a member of Gohmert’s congressional district in Texas, tweeted on Friday that she’d received a flag flown over the Capitol, the constructing she stormed on Jan. 6.
Gohmert shared Gold’s tweet and known as her “a patriot and an American hero.”
In a Friday assertion, Gohmert claimed that Gold’s actions on Jan. 6 amounted to “peacefully strolling into” the Capitol constructing. He stated she was “the definition of what a political prisoner appears to be like like.”
“God Bless Dr. Gold,” Gohmert wrote on his web site. “Historical past won’t look kindly upon those that persecuted ― and prosecuted ― docs who spoke out towards the COVID lockdown, masks and vaccine mandates.”
Victor Ruiz, a former fight medic, tweeted that Gohmert’s presentation of the U.S. flag to Gold was a second that “lit a hearth within me.”
“To take a person responsible of an assault on Democracy and provides them the flag of the nation they spit on? Louie Gohmert is a waste of oxygen,” Ruiz wrote.
Kurt Bardella, a Democratic strategist and former spokesperson for the right-wing Breitbart Information, tweeted that Gohmert’s reward of the flag amounted to “rewarding a home terrorist,” and known as for Gohmert’s expulsion from Congress.
Gold is ready for one yr of supervised launch and is ordered to pay $10,000 for harm performed to the Capitol constructing, MedPage Immediately reported.
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