Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) hit back at his former pal Donald Trump on Wednesday with an extraordinary allegation: In the wake of Trump’s 2020 election loss, the former president demanded that Brooks immediately remove Joe Biden from the White House, reinstall Trump, and then hold a brand new election for the presidency.
Brooks made the accusation in a statement released after Trump ranted that Brooks “went ‘woke’” and “made a horrible mistake” by calling for people to get over the former president’s 2020 election loss.
In a typically vindictive statement, the twice-impeached former president revoked his endorsement for Brooks in Alabama’s U.S. Senate primary, saying it was “very sad” that Brooks—who was accused of helping to organize the “Stop the Steal” rally that took place before the deadly Capitol riot—had “decided to go in a different direction.”
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He blasted Brooks for telling attendees at an Alabama rally to move on from Trumpworld’s relentless grievances over the 2020 election.
“Referring to the 2020 Presidential Election Scam,” Trump fumed, Brooks said, “Put that behind you, put that behind you.”
“The 2020 Election was rigged, and we can’t let them get away with that,” Trump wrote, claiming Brooks’ “unstoppable” lead in the Senate race had disappeared because of his comments.
Brooks made the comments way back in August.
He nevertheless hit back on Wednesday, insisting it was Trump, not him, who had changed.
“When the President calls me ‘woke,’ there’s not anybody in Alabama with a brain larger than the size of a pea who believes that Mo Brooks is a woke liberal,” he told ABC.
In a statement, he claimed Trump was being manipulated by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) into attacking Brooks. “Every single negative TV ad against our campaign has come from McConnell and his allies. I wish President Trump wouldn’t fall for McConnell’s ploys but, once again, he has,” he said.
Then Brooks went even further, accusing Trump of asking him to rescind the 2020 elections, immediately remove Joe Biden from the White House, immediately reinstall Trump, and hold a new special election for the presidency. In further comments to ABC, Brooks claimed Trump repeatedly asked him repeatedly “off and on since Sept. 2021” to re-do the election.
“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,” he said in his statement.
“I’ve told President Trump the truth knowing full well that it might cause [him] to rescind his endorsement. But I took a sworn oath to defend and protect the U.S. Constitution. I honor my oath. That is the way I am. I break my sworn oath for no man.”
Brooks, who is vying for the seat of retiring Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) in the Senate race, was one of the most ardent supporters of Trump’s “Big Lie” about the 2020 election after Biden’s win. He denied a report by Rolling Stone that he’d coordinated with organizers of the Jan. 6 rally at the Capitol, but said he’d have been “proud” if his staff had in fact helped to “organize a First Amendment rally to protest voter fraud and election theft.”
In a speech at a rally before Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building, Brooks told the crowd to “start taking down names and kicking ass.”
