{"id":939395,"date":"2021-10-29T21:58:35","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T01:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=939395"},"modified":"2021-10-29T21:58:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T01:58:37","slug":"exclusive-rep-mo-brooks-stephen-colbert-lies-i-wore-bulletproof-vest-on-january-6-because-of-threats-against-me-from-blm-antifa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-rep-mo-brooks-stephen-colbert-lies-i-wore-bulletproof-vest-on-january-6-because-of-threats-against-me-from-blm-antifa\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive \u2013 Rep. Mo Brooks: Stephen Colbert Lies. I Wore Bulletproof Vest on January 6 Because of Threats Against Me from BLM, Antifa"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">46<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-rep-mo-brooks-stephen-colbert-lies-i-wore-bulletproof-vest-on-january-6-because-of-threats-against-me-from-blm-antifa%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=939395&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), who is running for the U.S. Senate seat from Alabama, told Breitbart News on Friday that he wore a \u201cbulletproof vest\u201d on January 6 due to threats against him from Antifa and Black Lives Matter, saying CBS\u2019s Stephen Colbert and the broader left dishonestly frame his wearing of body armor on that day as evidence of advance knowledge of how the day\u2019s events would unfold at the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Colbert <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RPrTiLtqXVM&amp;ab_channel=TheLateShowwithStephenColbert\">referenced<\/a> a recent attempt by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/exclusive-jan-6-organizers-met-congress-white-house-1245289\/\"><em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> \u2014 relayed by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/2021\/10\/mo-brooks-denies-helping-plan-jan-6-rally-would-be-proud-if-his-staff-had-helped.html\">Alabama Local News<\/a>&nbsp;and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/mo-brooks-says-he-didnt-plan-jan-6-rally-but-maybe-his-staff-did\">Daily Beast<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 to link Brooks to violence at the Capitol, regularly framed as an \u201cinsurrection\u201d by Democrats and leftist news media.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cStephen Colbert \u2014 and it seems like the entire left-wing \u2014 they just lie freely,\u201d Brooks stated on SiriusXM\u2019s <em>Breitbart News Daily<\/em> with host Alex Marlow. \u201cOn January 6, at the Ellipse rally, which is one-and-a-half miles from the United States Capitol, I wore an armored vest, a bulletproof vest \u2014 although technically, they\u2019re not really bulletproof, but they help \u2014 and I wore it because the socialist left-wing radicals in society have uttered any number of threats of violence \u2014 to include death \u2014 against members of the United States Congress, including myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brooks recalled the mass murder attempt carried out by James Hodgkinson, a leftist supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), against Republicans in 2017 at a practice game for a charitable event.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>He stated, \u201cAnd I\u2019ve been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2017\/06\/14\/live-updates-rep-steve-scalise-shot-virginia-baseball-practice\/\">shot<\/a> at before on the baseball field. So you\u2019ve got to take these threats seriously. Certainly, if you saw the carnage \u2014 five innocent people getting shot by a socialist madman \u2014 then you have to be concerned, and my office had received from the Capitol Police warnings [and] advisories that we needed to be a little bit safer because of threats from Black Lives Matter, Antifa, or [other] socialist left-wing [groups].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo my staff and my wife wanted me to wear a bulletproof vest, so I did,\u201d he added. \u201cNow, Stephen Colbert and the radical left, they\u2019re just lying about why I wore that vest.&nbsp;There\u2019s saying that I had a heads up there\u2019s going be an attack on the Capitol. The falsity of their attack is blatantly clear because as soon as I got through speaking at the Ellipse and got back to my office \u2014 which was sometime between 9:30 and 10 o\u2019clock \u2014 I took off the bulletproof vest.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16303544\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"38\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/fbi-june14-2017-steve-scalise-baseball-game-shooting-file-getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16303544\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/fbi-june14-2017-steve-scalise-baseball-game-shooting-file-getty.jpg\" alt=\"ALEXANDRIA, VA - JUNE 14: Investigators search the bags that have been left behind at the Eugene Simpson Stadium Park where a shooting had happened June 14, 2017 in Alexandria, Virginia. U.S. House Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) and multiple congressional aides were shot by a gunman during a Republican baseball practice. (Photo by Alex Wong\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Investigators search the bags that have been left behind at the Eugene Simpson Stadium Park where a shooting had happened June 14, 2017, in Alexandria, Virginia. U.S. House Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) and multiple congressional aides were shot by a gunman during a Republican baseball practice. (Photo by Alex Wong\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>He concluded, \u201cI felt perfectly secure at the United States Capitol. I had no inkling as to what was going to be coming down the pike \u2026 but Stephen Colbert and the leftists want to lie about all this and falsely claim that somehow or another, we Republicans had a heads up that this was coming, when that\u2019s the furthest thing from the truth, and there is zero evidence supporting that outrageous deception.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<div readability=\"6.5\">\n<div readability=\"8\">\n<p><em>Breitbart News Daily broadcasts live on SiriusXM Patriot 125 weekdays from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Eastern.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), who is running for the U.S. Senate seat from Alabama, told Breitbart News on Friday that he wore a \u201cbulletproof vest\u201d on January 6 due to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}