House Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) (Getty Images)

(CNSNews.com) -- House Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), a former Army JAG officer and former chief justice of Texas's 12th Court of Appeals, said the drive to remove President Donald Trump from office is an "impeachment circus" to obstruct the Justice Department's investigation into the Democrats' "own collusion with foreign governments to affect the outcome of the 2016 election."

"Ironically, Democrats are accusing President Trump of what they, themselves, have engaged in: colluding with foreign governments to change the outcome of an election," said Gohmert in an Oct. 3 statement, and now they are trying to stop any investigation of that collusion, which the U.S. Justice Department is actively pursuing under the direction of Attorney General William Barr and U.S. Attorney John H. Durham.

"There is a struggle going on in Washington, D.C., which threatens to bring about the destruction of our American experiment in self-governance," said Gohmert in his statement.

"Not bound to a party affiliation, it is born of the notion the globalist elites of the world know better how to run the lives of the average American citizen than we do ourselves," he said. "These elites want to destroy the very idea of a government of, for and by the People and are willing to continue in the light of day their lawless coup attempt against a duly elected president."

Further excerpts from his statement are published below.

"The whistleblower complaint itself reads like a policy rant written by a partisan attorney focused on facilitating the Democrats’ latest lurch toward impeachment. President Trump is alleged to have done what we know Vice-President Joe Biden admitted to doing. Yet again, it is another example of Democrats projecting their criminal acts on President Trump.

"There is no law that restricts the president’s ability to ask a foreign leader – at the request of his own attorney general no less– to give his or her government’s cooperation in an investigation by our Department of Justice. In the instance of Ukraine, there is ample reason to request their cooperation and documentation, as this was one of the countries through which Democrat senators and the Obama Administration sought to derail then-candidate Donald Trump’s presidential bid.

Former FBI chief counter-intelligence officer Peter Strzok. (Getty Images)

"Just last week, Attorney General William Barr and U.S. Attorney John Durham met with Italian authorities in Rome where, according to reports, they were briefed on the Italian government’s investigation surrounding a taped deposition from the mysterious Maltese professor, Joseph Mifsud.

"Mifsud, as you may recall, became the linchpin of the FBI’s sham investigation into President Trump after it was revealed that he met with Trump campaign volunteer George Papadopoulos in 2016 and allegedly informed him that the Russians had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton.

Former MI6 agent Christopher Steele, who prodcued the Trump "dossier," which was paid for by the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. (YouTube)

"According to a report by the left-leaning Daily Beast, Mifsud feared for his life, sought police protection in Italy and provided authorities with his deposition, 'to explain just why some people might want to harm him.' Given the likelihood everything he said that would harm the Trump presidency has already been made public, it becomes clear that his video deposition endangers the authors and facilitators of the Crossfire Hurricane operation to derail the Trump campaign.

"Based solely on hearsay from an anonymous whistleblower and empowered by the Speaker of the House, Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee have now begun a farcical 'impeachment inquiry' where they have no authority or jurisdiction in impeachment matters. They were chosen decidedly by the Speaker, I would argue, for their proximity to the Deep State Intelligence Community apparatus where this latest of their three-year-long drive to impeachment has surfaced.

Glenn Simpson, co-founder of Fusion GPS and a former journalist, who hired Christopher Steele, who prepared the Trump-Russia dossier. Fusion GPS reportedly was paid by the 2016 Clinton campaign and the DNC

"Ironically, Democrats are accusing President Trump of what they, themselves, have engaged in: colluding with foreign governments to change the outcome of an election. The top brass operatives in the Obama Administration, including coup leaders at the helm of the Obama DOJ and FBI, the Clinton campaign, DNC, Fusion GPS and the discredited former MI-6 agent Christopher Steele, the foreign governments of Russia, Ukraine (under the former, corrupt regime) and rogue, elitist elements in the intelligence apparatus of the Brits and Australians were involved in the anti-Trump plot.

"This entire impeachment circus is an attempt to obstruct the Department of Justice investigations into their own collusion with foreign governments to affect the outcome of the 2016 election while once again accusing the President of doing the colluding.

Former Obama administration CIA Director John Brennan, who is anti-Trump, accuses the president of impeachable behavior and labels him "treasonous" and a tool of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"... We stand on the precipice of the greatest self-governing country in history being destroyed by political manipulators who would rather end freedom for the world than lose political control as a result of losing a lawful election. What they did not anticipate was a president who would not go gentle into that good night as other 'good Republicans' have in the past.

"And by the way, it isn’t a legitimate, actual impeachment hearing until the House Judiciary Committee is formally having an impeachment proceeding; not an 'inquiry.' Any other is yet another lie added to the ultimate deceit. The accessory list continues to grow.

Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, who claims Donald Trump is an "illegitimate president" and a "puppet" of Russia's Vladimir Putin. (YouTube)

"God bless President Donald J. Trump."

Rep. Gohmert is a senior member on the House Judiciary Committee.