Video shows man follow GOP rep’s wife into garage to serve Swalwell suit

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Shocking video shows a process server follow the wife of Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) into their garage to serve her with a lawsuit brought by Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) that accuses Brooks of helping to incite the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

In the video, obtained first by The Post, the server speeds his car up the driveway of the Brooks’ Huntsville, Ala. home as Martha Brooks pulls an SUV into the garage Sunday morning. The server jumps out and runs into the garage, papers and phone at the ready.

After a few seconds, the server appears without his papers, but with his phone in hand. He retreats to his car, pursued by a visibly upset Martha Brooks. Before the server backs out down the driveway, Martha Brooks goes behind the car to check the license plate number of his car.

Later Sunday, Brooks accused the server on Twitter of “unlawfully sneaking INTO MY HOUSE & accosting my wife!

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“Alabama Code 13A-7-2: 1st degree criminal trespass. Year in jail. $6000 fine. More to come!” added Brooks, who later filed a police report over the incident.

An attorney from the firm being used by Swalwell, Philip Andonian, denied Brooks’ allegation in a statement to CNN earlier Monday.

“No one entered or even attempted to enter the Brooks house. That allegation is completely untrue. A process server lawfully served the papers on Mo Brooks’ wife, as the federal rules allow,” he said.

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“This was after her initial efforts to avoid service. Mo Brooks has no one but himself to blame for the fact that it came to this. We asked him to waive service, we offered to meet him at a place of his choosing. Instead of working things out like a civilized person, he engaged in a juvenile game of Twitter trolling over the past few days and continued to evade service. He demanded that we serve him. We did just that.

“The important thing is the complaint has been served and Mo Brooks can now be held accountable for his role in inciting the deadly insurrection at the Capitol,” Andonian concluded.

Swalwell’s lawsuit alleges that former President Donald Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr., former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani and Brooks broke Washington DC laws, including an anti-terrorism act, by “inciting” the Jan. 6 riot — and that they aided and abetted the rioters and inflicted emotional distress on members of Congress.

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