A protestor yelled "you lie" as Rep. Louie Gohmert Louis (Louie) Buller GohmertRep. Dan Meuser tests positive for COVID-19 Watchdog calls for probe into Gohmert 'disregarding public health guidance' on COVID-19 Massie plans to donate plasma after testing positive for COVID-19 antibodies MORE (R-Texas) tried to make the point that Democrats were historically the party that supported slavery during Wednesday's reparations hearing.

Gohmert said the Democrats make no "reference" of their party's past platform of supporting slavery in the 1800s, as well as no reference to former Democratic presidents that owned slaves.

Gohmert also said that there's no reference to Jim Crow laws, or the role "Democrats played in creating them," in that "pesky 50 year part of the DNC's missing years."

"It is important that we know our history and we not punish people today for the sins of their predecessors in the democratic party," Gohmert said, according to clips of the hearing shared on twitter.

"You lie," said a protestor, identified as Rev. Mark Thompson by the Democratic Coalition on twitter.

BREAKING: Mark Thompson (@ministter) just yelled out “you lie” in a Congressional hearing in response to GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert making up lies about Democrats. Awesome. pic.twitter.com/NvaZszIZ8T — Democratic Coalition (@TheDemCoalition) June 19, 2019

President Abraham Lincoln, who led the country's fight to end slavery, was a Republican. The parties shifted key platforms between the 1860s and 1936, when Democrats President Franklin D. Roosevelt won on his New Deal platform in response to the Great Depression.

"I just stated all facts, and again, we have people who are denying history that's not helpful to our discussion," Gohmert said.

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties hearing follows a bill from Rep. Sheila Jackson (D-Texas) that would form a commission to study whether descendants of slaves should receive reparations.

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