Louie Gohmert's Uranium One Chart

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Louie Gohmert's Uranium One Chart refers to a chart presented by Texas republican congressman Louie Gohmert during Jeff Sessions' hearing before the House Judiciary Committee about the ongoing Russiagate investigation that attempted to demonstrate how the Uranium One conspiracy theory was worthy of scrutiny and that special counsel Robert Mueller should be removed from the Russiagate investigation as he was the director of the FBI during the Uranium One deal. The chart was turned into an exploitable and was joked about in photoshopped edits on Twitter.

Origin

On November 14th, 2017, republican congressman Louie Gohmert of Texas presented a chart during Jeff Sessions hearing in front of the House Judiciary Committee attempting to explain the intricacies of the Uranium One conspiracy theory.^[1] After the hearing, Gohmert's office released the chart. It was tweeted out by Chris Geidner of Buzzfeed News that day (shown below).^[2]

Spread

The chart was swiftly mocked on Twitter for its inscrutability. Twitter user @GScottHand^[3] posted a photoshop of the chart placing it behind a picture of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia character Charlie during his famous Pepe Silvia rant, gaining over 400 retweets and 1,400 likes (shown below, left). Twitter user @nycsouthpaw^[4] mocked the chart by pointing out all the times names on the chart were duplicated, gaining over 25 retweets and 100 likes, shown below, right).

Other Twitter users mocked the chart by posting their own versions of the chart. Twitter user @poliscimystery^[5] posted the board from the children's game Candyland saying "Rep. Louie Gohmert's chart from today's House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing is fun," gaining over 80 retweets and 240 likes (shown below, left). Twitter user @FreddieCampion^[6] made "his own version" of the chart which simply linked the Trump to Russia, gaining over 15 retweets and 50 likes (shown below, right). The jokes were covered by Daily Dot,^[7] New York Magazine,^[8] The Hill,^[9] and more.