Gohmert has Covid-19

Couldn't happen to a more deserving person.

Gohmert was scheduled to fly to Texas on Wednesday morning with President Donald Trump and tested positive in a pre-screen at the White House. The eighth-term Republican told CNN last month that he was not wearing a mask because he was being tested regularly for the coronavirus.

  Politico

On Tuesday, Gohmert attended the House Judiciary Committee's hearing with Attorney General Bill Barr. He walked around his colleagues in the hearing room and outside it without a mask.

  The Hill

STDs aren't the only disease you can pick up in the men's room.

Gohmert has at times worn a facial covering while on Capitol Hill. But he has been among the handful of GOP lawmakers spotted on the House floor in recent weeks without a mask while mingling with colleagues.

Gohmert also raised eyebrows in March after he returned to the Capitol despite potential exposure to the coronavirus in March while attending the Conservative Political Action Conference. Other lawmakers had self-quarantined out of fear of exposure.

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Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, responded to the news of Gohmert's infection by condemning, more broadly, those Republicans who are still refusing to wear masks as they roam around Capitol Hill.

Those lawmakers, Jeffries charged, are threatening the health of everyone around them simply out of "fealty" to President Trump.

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Gohmert is now the tenth member of Congress with a presumed or confirmed case of COVID-19.

Reps. Joe Cunningham (D-S.C.), Ben McAdams (D-Utah), Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.), Neal Dunn (R-Fla.), Mike Kelly (R-Pa.), Tom Rice (R-S.C.) and Morgan Griffith (R-Va.), as well as Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), have also tested positive for the disease.

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Most of the lawmakers who've had COVID-19 tested positive in March and April when physical distancing measures to curb spread of the disease had only just begun.

The handful who have come down with COVID-19 since then are all Republicans, some of whom have flouted guidelines like wearing masks.

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House Democrats began requiring face masks at committee hearings in June. [...] Some committee leaders, including House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Select Committee on the Coronavirus Crisis Chairman James Clyburn (D-S.C.), have since made it a policy to not grant speaking time to any member not wearing a mask.

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Nadler admonished some GOP lawmakers for not wearing masks during the hearing with Barr on Tuesday, including Reps. Jim Jordan (Ohio), Andy Biggs (Ariz.) and Mike Johnson (La.).

  The Hill

Some of the biggest jerks in Congress.

"I would remind Mr. Jordan, Mr. Biggs, and Mr. Johnson to stop violating the rules of the committee, to stop violating the safety of the members of the committee, to stop holding themselves out as not caring by refusing to wear their masks," Nadler said.

Forget requiring masks to speak. Require masks to enter the building, ffs.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE: Gohmert doubles down.