Fellow House members criticize Rep. Brooks after he released a statement Thursday that appeared to be sympathetic to the man police had arrested earlier in the day in connection with a bomb threat near the U.S. Capitol.
“It is astonishing that this needs to be said but no one who serves in Congress should be expressing public sympathy with the views of a terrorist who threatened to blow up the U.S. Capitol. I would have thought we could all at least agree on that,” he said.Floyd Ray Roseberry after an hourslong standoff near the Capitol. The incident began Thursday morning when Roseberry drove a black pickup truck onto the sidewalk in front of the Library of Congress, authorities said.
Brooks was one of the Republican lawmakers who spoke at the rally then-President Donald Trump held Jan. 6 hours before the Capitol riot. Brooks told the pro-Trump mob,"Today is the day American patriots start taking down names and kicking a--.
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