{"id":272509,"date":"2018-04-30T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=272509"},"modified":"2018-05-01T15:52:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T19:52:03","slug":"mo-brooks-assassination-fears-drive-gop-retirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/04\/30\/mo-brooks-assassination-fears-drive-gop-retirements\/","title":{"rendered":"Mo Brooks: Assassination Fears Drive GOP Retirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Yeah. I\u2019m looking, there\u2019s not enough time to be fair with another caller. Mo Brooks, who is a member of Congress from Alabama, Mo Brooks has offered a reason why so many Republicans are retiring from the House. He says it\u2019s because they fear the risk of being assassinated because of what happened to Steve Scalise and because of the out of control madness on the part of the leftists everywhere, particularly on social media.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-272527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/APP-043018-Mo-Brooks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/APP-043018-Mo-Brooks.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/APP-043018-Mo-Brooks-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>&#8220;Mo Brooks says the flood of departing GOP members of Congress this year might be related to fear of &#8216;assassination risk\u2019 from violent &#8216;leftists\u2019 following the deadly shooting attack on the Republican\u2019s baseball practice in 2017.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, I wonder. I\u2019ve not heard anybody else raise this as a possibility, but once something like this happens one time and proportionately lack of any real outrage about it? I don\u2019t know, may have a point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: He says it&#039;s because they fear the risk of being assassinated because of what happened to Steve Scalise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":272527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mo Brooks: Assassination Fears Drive GOP Retirements - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/04\/30\/mo-brooks-assassination-fears-drive-gop-retirements\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Mo Brooks: Assassination Fears Drive GOP Retirements - 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