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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Scott Perry- 2022 Update [1]

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Date: 2022-07-28

Well, don't look now, but Pennsylvania Congressman Scott Perry has been subpoenaed for his role in trying to stage a Trump overthrow of the Dept. of Justice to place their own unqualified loyalist, Jeffrey Clark, in charge.

On this date in both 2018, 2019, 2020, as well as 2021, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” published our original profile of the sitting U.S. House Representative from Pennsylvania’s 4th Congressional District, Scott Perry, who was first elected to office back in 2014 after serving six years in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. While there wasn’t really anything that Congressman Perry did to turn up on FRED’s radar in his freshman term in Washington, D.C., in his second term in office, he has been decidedly more idiotic in the public eye.



Let’s start with his town hall from March of 2017, where when he tried arguing against EPA standards trying to stop pollution because “God pollutes, too”. No, we’re serious:

Pollution is part of God’s design, you see, so we shouldn’t do anything about it. By this logic, we also shouldn’t treat preventable diseases, but hey, let’s not give ol’ Scott anything else to use to argue against the Affordable Care Act.



Heh. No, actually, Perry’s arguments on healthcare are even dumber, and more selfish than that. In May of 2017, while the debate over the GOP’s attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with a far inferior healthcare plan, the AHCA were underway, Scott Perry argued why maternity care should not be included in health insurance coverage. His reason? He was too old to have kids, and therefore, he sure as hell wasn’t paying for it:

Babies aren’t Cadillacs, you simpleton, and comparing the two is nonsense.



Anyway, over the past year, Scott Perry has begun spiraling into flat-out conspiracy theory nonsense, instead of just your typical conservative ideologue like most members of the House Freedom Caucus. In October 2017, in the wake of Hurricane Maria devastating Puerto Rico, he went on CNN to yell and call the reports of a massive death toll and citizens struggling to recover “fake news”. (It’s not fake, almost 5,000 people died as a result of the storm, and almost a year later, the power grid was not been fully repaired.)



By January of 2018, Rep. Perry was making guest appearances with Tucker Carlson on Fox News to try to re-write history… the Las Vegas shooter, Stephen Paddock wasn’t a mentally ill white guy with a gun fetish gone out of control… the entire Las Vegas shooting, per Perry, was a terror attack orchestrated by ISIS. There is zero evidence outside of Scott Perry’s mouth-hole to indicate that such a statement is true, and he should be removed from his position on the Homeland Security Committee for spreading such a paranoid conspiracy theory, in our humble opinion.



At a town hall in 2020, Scott Perry chillingly admitted there is no line Donald Trump would cross that would lead him to condemn him… in the same meeting where he said he doesn’t like seeing presidents embrace dictators and complaining about former President Obama but neglecting to mention Donald Trump’s relationships with Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un.



In the 2020 elections, Perry managed to win re-election with a modest 53% of the vote. If you weren’t getting the feeling that he’s terrible yet, let’s take a look at his voting record:

We opined this time in 2021 how it was pretty clear how far gone Scott Perry is that he would cite “replacement theory” as if he was sitting in for Tucker Carlson on the floor of the House…. that Perry was clinging to Donald Trump like a life preserver keeping him afloat when in reality Trump is a lodestone tied around his neck.



We had no idea how true that was… because since we last checked in, things have heated up around Rep. Perry that could hurt his chances for re-election, if not implicate him and see him brought up on charges of seditious conspiracy.



There are many avenues that Donald Trump explored to subvert American democracy, and what level of coup he was willing to attempt. While the attack on the Capitol itself was the most glaring one… there was also spreading lies about election fraud, and frivolous lawsuits to overturn the results to consider. But one of the more devious and sinister plans was thought up by Scott Perry, and that was to install an absolute sycophantic toady named Jeffrey Clark as the new head of the Dept. of Justice, and Clark would investigate all the “voter fraud” that people as relatively scrupulous as Bill Barr (low bar to clear, pardon the pun), thought were “bulls***”, because they WERE.



But Perry surmised that if Trump seized control of the Dept. of Justice, he could get its backing to help reject American democracy and work towards installing him as an authoritarian dictator for life. The last vistages of honor and service over at the DOJ threatened a mass walkout that would blow up in Trump’s face, and Clark was humiliated to his face by other high-ranking DoJ officials and Trump lawyers at the White House.



But, for his part in coming up with the plan to install an unqualified catspaw within our government’s top law enforcement organization, Perry is now looking at a subpoena from the Jan. 6th committee. We hope not just that Scott Perry is defeated in November by his Democratic challenger, Shamaine Daniels, but we look forward to seeing him in a prison jumper.

One Year Ago, July 28th, 2021: Scott Perry (PA)… 2021 Update

Two Years Ago, July 28th, 2020: Scott Perry (PA)… 2020 Update

Three Years Ago, July 28th, 2019: Scott Perry (PA)… 2019 Update

Four Years Ago, July 28th, 2018: Scott Perry (PA)… Original Profile

Five Years Ago, July 28th, 2017: Jon Keyser (CO)

Six Years Ago, July 28th, 2016: David Jolly (FL)

Seven Years Ago, July 28th, 2015: Todd Courser (MI)

Eight Years Ago, July 28th, 2014: Herman Cain (GA)

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