Veteran TV journalist and Fox News political analyst Brit Hume, who is generally sympathetic to President Trump, hit Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, for calling out FBI agent Peter Strzok on his extramarital affair.
“I did not think it possible anyone could make Peter Strzok seem a sympathetic figure in this hearing, but Louie Gohmert did,” Hume wrote Thursday on Twitter. “His behavior toward the witness was bullying and insulting, and elicited no information.”
During a televised hearing earlier that day, Gohmert accused Strzok of lying to Congress about whether he was biased in the investigations of Hillary Clinton and Trump during the 2016 campaign. During his questioning, Gohmert went so far as to bring up Strzok’s extramarital affair with another agent, Lisa Page.
I did not think it possible anyone could make Peter Strzok seem a sympathetic figure in this hearing, but Louie Gohmert did. His behavior toward the witness was bullying and insulting, and elicited no information.
— Brit Hume (@brithume) July 12, 2018
“You’ve embarrassed yourself, and I can’t help but wonder when I see you looking there with a little smirk, how many times did you look so innocent into your wife’s eye and lie to her about Lisa,” Gohmert said during the hearing of the House Oversight and Judiciary committees.”
The comment drew outrage from Democrats attending the hearing and many people, both conservatives and liberals, who were following the hearing and commenting on social media.
“Mr. Chairman, this is outrageous!” one Democrat at the hearing shouted.
Another Democrat yelled out to Gohmert, “Do you need your medication?”
Strzok is at the center of an investigation led by House Republicans looking into whether the FBI acted with bias against then-presidential candidate Trump.
Text messages between Strzok and Page showed the two were having an affair and regularly spoke unfavorably about Trump. Some messages appear to show Strzok suggesting that he believed Trump should be thwarted from winning the election.
