Donald Trump Flips (Politically) on Mo Brooks. Could it be that Mo Brooks has Flipped on Trump?
by Glenn Kirschner
Mar 23, 2022
On thing is beyond reasonable dispute: Donald Trump does not like to admits he's ever wrong. Yet he just issued a statement withdrawing his endorsement of Mo Brooks for the US Senate. In other words, Trump issued a statement saying, in substance, Donald Trump was dead wrong to endorse Brooks. Trump claims that his endorsement flip-flop is because Brooks said people should move on from the 2020 election. But that explanation rigns hollow.
This video discusses what Trump's real motivation might be for this endorsement flop-flop.
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“President Trump asked me to rescind the 2020 elections, immediately remove Joe Biden from the White House, immediately put President Trump back in the White House, and hold a new special election for the presidency,” Mo Brooks said Wednesday.
by Bess Levin
Vanity Fair
MARCH 23, 2022
As you’ve probably heard by now, Donald Trump didn’t like the results of the 2020 election and instead of accepting them and moving on with his life like a normal adult, he tried extremely hard to get them thrown out, a campaign that included inciting a violent insurrection that left multiple people dead. Since Trump is currently threatening to run for office in 2024, it’s important to bring this up as much as possible, given the high likelihood he’ll try again to steal a second term. And on Wednesday, one of this loyalest footstools helpfully did just that!
In a statement issued on Wednesday, Representative Mo Brooks, who is running for U.S. Senate in Alabama, said, “President Trump asked me to rescind the 2020 elections, immediately remove Joe Biden from the White House, immediately put President Trump back in the White House, and hold a new special election for the presidency. As a lawyer, I’ve repeatedly advised President Trump that January 6 was the final election contest verdict and neither the U.S. Constitution nor the U.S. Code permit what President Trump asks. Period.”
Brooks’s comments followed Trump’s decision to retract his endorsement of the Alabama lawmaker, so we’d say take it with a grain of salt except for the fact we all have eyes and ears and know this is exactly what the ex-president aimed to do. In a statement issued Wednesday, Trump claimed Brooks “blew the election” and made a “a horrible mistake” by going “woke” and calling for people to move on from the 2020 election. While the congressman did indeed tell a crowd Republicans should be focused on the midterm elections and 2024, that was last August—and the idea that Brooks is some kind of traitor to Trump’s cause is particularly hilarious given that he’s consistently been one of the ex-president’s most faithful footstools. In addition to speaking at the “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the attack on the Capitol—where he told gatherers to “start taking down names and kicking ass”—Brooks spent much of last year amplifying Trump’s claims of voter fraud, saying there is “overwhelming and compelling” evidence (of which he provided none) that “somewhere in the neighborhood of 900,000 to 1.7 million noncitizens voted in the 2020 presidential election overwhelmingly for Joe Biden.” In a TV ad that aired just last week, the congressman showed footage of his January 6 speech and proclaimed that on that day he “proudly stood with President Trump in the fight against voter fraud.”
Trump, of course, does not tolerate even the slightest hint of perceived disloyalty; plus, there’s the fact that Brooks is behind in the Alabama Senate race, and Trump’s brand is about “winning“ (hence his inability to accept he lost to Biden). Incidentally, Trump has a bit of a history with Alabama Senate races; back in 2017 he endorsed the losing Republican candidate Luther Strange in the state’s primary, only to say he never actually wanted to endorse him. Then he went on to back accused child molester Roy Moore, who also ended up losing. (Moore denied the allegations against him.)
Anyway, it would probably be nice if the congressional committee investigating the event surrounding January 6 got in touch with Brooks for a chat ASAP; though if we know our Trump toadies, and we think we do, publicly proclaiming that the former president tried to get Biden removed from office and himself reinstated doesn’t mean said (former) toad will necessarily start cooperating with the people trying to hold Trump responsible. But Brooks should feel free to prove everyone wrong!