GOP Texas Consultant Louie Gohmert faces widespread criticism for his lament Friday about Republicans not having the ability "to mislead Congress or mislead an FBI agent," together with from Democratic lawmaker Ted Lieu.

Gohmert, a Republican representing Texas' 1st Congressional District, made much-derided feedback throughout a Friday look on the right-wing information channel Newsmax. The lawmaker mentioned the latest federal grand jury indictment of former Trump administration commerce adviser Peter Navarro, who refused to fulfill with the Home choose committee investigating final yr's Capitol riot.

"When you're a Republican, you'll be able to't even mislead Congress or mislead an FBI agent or they're coming after you," Gohmert complained.

Lieu, a Democrat representing California's thirty third Congressional District, famous that it is towards the legislation for any individual, no matter celebration affiliation, to mislead entities like Congress or the FBI.

"I merely notice it's a federal crime for anybody to mislead Congress or the FBI throughout an investigation," he tweeted Friday.

In February, Navarro was referred to as to talk with and supply data to the choose committee. Consultant Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Republican, mentioned that he might be a key witness within the investigation, citing a passage in a ebook the place he talked "about his function in planning and coordinating the exercise of January sixth."

In April, after the famous supporter of Donald Trump's election fraud lies didn't comply, the choose committee voted to refer contempt of Congress citations towards Navarro to the Division of Justice. The cost carries a most sentence of 1 yr in jail and a $10,000 positive. In November, Steve Bannon, one other Trump ally, confronted the identical cost for failing to conform with a choose committee subpoena.

ted lieu louie gohmert lies
Democratic Consultant Ted Lieu (above) on Friday joined critics decrying Consultant Louie Gohmert's lament that GOP members cannot mislead Congress or the FBI. Joshua Blanchard/Getty Photographs for Politicon

Lieu steadily makes use of his official social media platforms to criticize the actions of GOP lawmakers, notably these allied with Trump. Final yr, he was among the many Democratic lawmakers to name for the expulsion from Congress of Republicans who could have aided in planning the Capitol riot, together with Gohmert.

"Nobody must be above the legislation, together with Members of Congress and former White Home Workers," Lieu tweeted on the time. "And if pardons have been certainly mentioned upfront, why would that be? As a result of of us knew crimes have been about to be dedicated."

This got here in response to a Rolling Stone report final October that alleged that Republican lawmakers resembling Gohmert, Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Mo Brooks, Madison Cawthorn, Paul Gosar, and others held conferences previous to January 6 in an effort to plan out makes an attempt to contest the 2020 presidential election outcomes.

Newsweek reached out to Gohmert for remark.