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Martin Pengelly in New York

Republican ex-congressman suggests colleagues ‘had serious cognitive issues’

Louie Gohmert, right, and Paul Gosar ‘seemed to be joined at the brain stem when it came to their eagerness to believe wild, dramatic fantasies’.
Louie Gohmert, right, and Paul Gosar ‘seemed to be joined at the brain stem when it came to their eagerness to believe wild, dramatic fantasies’. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

The Republican congressmen Louis Gohmert and Paul Gosar adopted such extreme, conspiracy-tinged positions, even before the US Capitol attack, that a fellow member of the rightwing Freedom Caucus thought they “may have had serious cognitive issues”.

Denver Riggleman, once a US representative from Virginia, reports his impression of his former colleagues from Texas and Arizona in a new book.

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