After storming a secure deposition room at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday and initiating a truly dumb standoff with the three House committees recording testimony as part of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, Gohmert took to the airwaves in Dallas and told listeners that he knows the answer to one of the country's biggest ongoing mysteries.
Gohmert told arch-conservative Dallas radio host Mark Davis that he knows, by name, the identity of the whistleblower who spurred the investigation into Trump's alleged threats to withhold foreign aid from Ukraine if Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky didn't agree to dig up dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden and Biden's son, Hunter Biden.
"I don't want to bury the lead here," Davis said. "You know this person by name?"
"Yeah," Gohmert replied.
Davis then asked Gohmert how many other people know the whistleblower's identity.
"I think most everybody in the intelligence community knows who it is," Gohmert said.
Gohmert's statements are in direct contradiction to those made by the House's Republican leadership and the president.
Wednesday, Rep. Jim Jordan, the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, said that only one member of the House, House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff, knows the whistleblower's identity.
Jordan and two of his colleagues, Reps. Michael McCaul and Devin Nunes, sent a letter to Schiff on Wednesday as well, complaining that Congress would not be hearing testimony from the "anonymous intelligence community employee whose complaint initiated the so-called impeachment inquiry."435 Members of the House.
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) October 23, 2019
Only one knows who the “whistleblower” is and who their sources are: @RepAdamSchiff.
Why?
The president got in on the act, too, tweeting "Where's the Whistleblower?" during his executive time Wednesday morning.
Where’s the Whistleblower?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 23, 2019
Maybe he should ask Gohmert.