McCarthy's ex-staffer says GOP Rep. Mo Brooks was 'cheering' as rioters stormed

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Ryan O'Toole, a former staffer for Republican House leader Kevin McCarthy, said he witnessed GOP Rep. Mo Brooks "cheering on" the Capitol rioters as they stormed the building during the Electoral Vote count process on January 6, 2021.

O'Toole, who was McCarthy's cloakroom director last January and now works for GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, said most lawmakers were upset and scared as they were evacuated from the House floor to a secure location and rioters invaded the chamber.

"Members were fearful for their lives. Republican members themselves, men crying in the cloakroom for their safety," O'Toole told CNN's Jake Tapper on Thursday. But some GOP members felt differently.

"You did have some members express a different view," O'Toole said. "One member, Mo Brooks, for example, was glad. He was cheering on the fact that the 117th Congress had started this way. And that was much to the dismay of others in the room."

https://news.yahoo.com/kevin-mccarthys-ex-staffer-says-160312917.html

 

[Ross Dolan]

Brooks is a traitor to America.

 

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Hello guno,

Ryan O'Toole, a former staffer for Republican House leader Kevin McCarthy, said he witnessed GOP Rep. Mo Brooks "cheering on" the Capitol rioters as they stormed the building during the Electoral Vote count process on January 6, 2021.

O'Toole, who was McCarthy's cloakroom director last January and now works for GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, said most lawmakers were upset and scared as they were evacuated from the House floor to a secure location and rioters invaded the chamber.

"Members were fearful for their lives. Republican members themselves, men crying in the cloakroom for their safety," O'Toole told CNN's Jake Tapper on Thursday. But some GOP members felt differently.

"You did have some members express a different view," O'Toole said. "One member, Mo Brooks, for example, was glad. He was cheering on the fact that the 117th Congress had started this way. And that was much to the dismay of others in the room."

https://news.yahoo.com/kevin-mccarthys-ex-staffer-says-160312917.html

Maybe he was in on it.

And that Lauren Boebert, too.

 

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“As we escaped the chamber -- to what sounded like gunshots -- to the secure location, I think people were still scared, members and staff were still scared and not sure what was happening,” O’Toole told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Thursday.

But O’Toole said Brooks, who earlier spoke at the “Save America” rally on Jan. 6 at the Ellipse near the White House to protest the 2020 election results and featured Donald Trump, was in an upbeat mood.

https://www.al.com/politics/2022/01...-jan-6-insurrectionists-ex-mccarthy-aide.html