Brooks's turn on Trump could give the Jan. 6 probe momentum
By Harper Neidig - 03/27/22 06:00 AM EDT
Rep. Mo Brooks's (R-Ala.) sudden turn against former President Trump this week was an unexpected gift for the House Jan. 6 Select Committee that may help bolster their investigation and the case they have started to lay out against Trump.
The Alabama Republican's admission that the former president had urged him to overturn the 2020 election, including in the months after President Biden took office, could add to the committee’s effort to show that Trump engaged in criminal conduct while trying to remain in power.
On Wednesday, Trump rescinded his endorsement of Brooks, who is running for an open Senate seat in this year’s Republican primary.
In response, the congressman made the extraordinary claim that the former president had been pressuring him to “rescind” the 2020 election even after the White House had changed hands.
“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,” Brooks said in a statement on Wednesday. “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.”
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