michigan republican state representative matt maddox whose wife is a co-chair of the michigan republican dream one of the 16 fake electors who was criminally charged last month. listen to what he had to say this month at a gop fund-raiser for an audio recording obtained by the new side messenger. >> if the government continues to weaponize the departments against conservatives and the citizens that are then the tax neighbors, what's gonna happen in this country. someone's gonna get so passed off to gonna shoot someone. it's what's gonna happen. or we're gonna have a civil war or some sort of revolution. that's where this is where this is going. >> after that audio was released, maddock issued this statement to the messenger, saying he was simply exercising his right to free speech in the privacy of his own home. we reached out to mannequin selves for comment but have yet to hear back. now i don't know about you but stuff like that sends a chill down my spine. elected republicans casually discussing implicitly threatening civil war.