Donald Trump’s deceptive behavior appears to be catching up to him and is turning one of his most ardent allies into a dangerous witness.
GOP Rep. Mo Brooks, who was one of Trump’s most fervent defenders, is now speaking out against the former president after he withdrew his endorsement of Brooks in his GOP primary bid for a Senate seat.
For the second straight day, the Alabama Republican seemed eager to throw the twice-impeached former president under the bus, telling local station WIAT-TV that Trump recently asked him to “rescind” the 2020 election.
“The president has asked me to rescind the election of 2020,” Brooks told host Andrea Lindenberg, adding that such action would be unconstitutional. “He always brings up, ‘We’ve got to rescind the election, we’ve got to take Joe Biden out and put me in now.”
“He still says that?” asked Lindenberg.
“Yes,” Brooks confirmed. “and I’m going, ‘Mr. President’ — I’m giving him advice, I’m an attorney, I’ve read the law, I’ve read the Constitution, I know it — and I say, ‘Mr. President, you can’t do that, it’s unconstitutional,’ and given a choice between Donald Trump, who I respect — he had a lot of great policies while he was president — and the United States Constitution, I am always going to choose the Constitution because that’s what my oath of office is to.”
Brooks added: “I knew that when I gave him straight-shooting legal advice that it would perturb him because that’s not what he wanted to hear, and I knew that it would put my endorsement at risk, but I thought it would be the honorable thing to do, so I did it.”
Watch the interview below:
