Mo Brooks Destroyed His Own Legal Defense During CPAC Speech

Republican Representative Mo Brooks said last week that he only spoke at the Stop The Steal rally in January (the day of the Capitol Riot) because Trump told him to, and that the White House knew exactly what he was going to say. He was trying to shift the blame from himself to Trump, and then he completely ruined that defense at CPAC when he told the audience that they had to "fight back" and that they could never "surrender." These are fighting words, obviously, and that could haunt him as he tries to wiggle out of a lawsuit. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Last week Republican representative Mo Brooks in a court filing, tried to argue that he should not be sued for allegedly inciting a riot on January 6th, Insurrection day, because earlier that day, Mo Brooks had spoken at the stop the steal rally right there in Washington, DC. He encouraged those in attendance to start kicking. But in his legal filing, he said, hey, listen, I was only there because Trump wanted me there. The White House approved my speech, you know, they knew what I was going to say. So I shouldn't be held accountable. He essentially tried to throw Trump under the bus. But then this past weekend at CPAC Mo Brooks did this.

Now our choice is simple. We can surrender and submit, or we can fight back as our ancestors have done. Think for a moment about our ancestors who fought at Valley Forge, they didn't fight the British. They fought for survival, 12,000 continental soldiers arrived. Five, six months later, 2000 had died. Think about what they went through. Burying your brothers, your fathers, your sons, 10 to 15 a day every day for six months. That's the kind of sacrifice that we have to think about. And I ask you, are you willing to fight for America? Are you willing to fight for America?

Mo, if you think that video of you telling these individuals that they have to fight, that they have to sacrifice, that they may have to bury their loved ones in this fight. Yeah. If you think that's not going to be used in the lawsuit against you for allegedly inciting the January 6th riot, then you're nuts because it will be because what they can do now is show that there is in fact, a pattern of behavior. Any good prosecutor in this country always wants to establish what they call patterns of behavior for the people they're attempting to prosecute, while they may not be able to prosecute them for everything they've ever done, obviously it's only the one issue that they're facing at the moment, they can show that, yes, this is a thing this person has done in the past. It's something they continue to do to this day.

So it makes it all the more likely that that is what they did, for example, on January 6th. Mo Brooks, with that crazy speech right there that you just saw, that was just a tiny piece of the crazy. Yeah. That likely just ruined any and all legal defense you may have had because what you did there at CPAC was actually worse than what you did on January 6th. You were even more overt with your calls for action, telling people they had to sacrifice, that they had to fight, that were fighting for survival. Putting those words into their heads, making them think that if they do not do what you're telling them to do, they could die. That's what some of those people in that crowd could have taken that to mean. And at this point, considering the fact this is not the first time you've done this.

I think it's fairly easy to show intent at this point. You know, if it happens one time, if it's a one-off thing, a heat of the moment. Oh, I didn't mean to say that. I misspoke. Sure. Okay. I get it. But now you've done it twice. Now this is more calculated. Now this is a pattern of behavior. And I hope that with these lawsuits, you go down in flames because we now know who you are.