Mo Brooks, the Alabama congressman who is about to launch a campaign for Senate, has officially said he condemns the Capitol riot and opposes violence.
But in hours of right-wing media interviews before and after the deadly insurrection on Jan. 6, he repeatedly raised the prospect of violence as a possible response to Donald Trump losing the 2020 presidential election.
“This is pretty much it for our country," Brooks said in a December podcast interview that has not been previously reported. “In my judgment, it rivals the election of 1860," he added, referring to the election of Abraham Lincoln, “and we saw what ensued from that" — meaning the Civil War....
