Mo Brooks hitched his wagon to an ingrate.
Brooks gave him everything. It wasn't enough. Trump dumped him.
Just three days ago I posted how Alabama's U.S. Senate candidate Mo Brooks published a 90-second video swearing allegiance to Trump. He criticized his primary election opponents for not being all-in with Trump.
Brooks was already exceptional in his fidelity to Trump. U.S. Representative Brooks had spoken at the January 6 rally wearing body armor. He urged the faithful to go to the Capitol and take names and kick ass. “Are you willing to do what it takes to fight for America?," he asked the crowd. “Will you fight for America?”
He wholly endorsed the Big Lie. As a member of the House, he led the effort to discard Biden electoral votes. If elected U.S. senator, he promised to vote to replace RINO Mitch McConnell.
I chose Mo Brooks as the example of division within the GOP: The Trump team versus the not-quite-Trump team. The GOP division would be hard to repair so long as there were people like Brooks condemning the less-than-100% Trump faithful, and so long as a majority of Republican voters believed Trump.
Ka-POW. Trump sucker-punched Brooks.
Trump withdrew his endorsement. Brooks wasn't good enough for Trump.
Brooks fought hard for Trump through January 6, but said the last chance for Trump was whether or not Congress accepted the Biden ballots on that day. Trump disagrees. The 2020 election should be voided, now and anytime, Trump says. Trump noted that Brooks had told a rally crowd in August that the America should put the 2020 election behind us. Brooks got boos from the crowd. That speech appears to be the breaking point for Trump. Brooks said the voters should "move on." Trump isn't moving on. Trump said Brooks had gone woke.
Mo Brooks was a leader on the 2020 Election Fraud and then, all of sudden, during the big rally in Alabama, he went “woke” and decided to drop everything he stood for—when he did, the people of Alabama dropped him, and now I have done so also. The people get it, but unfortunately, Mo doesn’t.
The backstory emerges from Mo Brooks. Trump kept pressuring Brooks throughout 2021 to do something, somehow to rescind the 2020 election, now. Nothing less. Brooks says Trump asks for the impossible.
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.
Republicans keep being taught a lesson, but they don't learn it. They keep being burned. Trump is a taker. A user. He is in this for himself. He is the worst of bad leaders. He demands of Brooks--like he demanded of Mike Pence and Brad Raffensperger and Brian Kemp and Doug Ducey and Bill Barr—they do something illegal and dishonorable with the spotlight of the law and the judgement of history on their faces.
This is a good sign for Democrats for 2022 and 2024. No one is better at staying center stage than Donald Trump. Trump isn't giving up and he is publicly breaking with Republicans who try to "move on." GOP candidates in anything like competitive districts need to distance themselves from Trump. Trump isn't cooperating. Trump isn't moving on. e.
Brooks gave him everything. It wasn't enough. Trump dumped him.
Since early on in the Trump presidency, it’s been clear that the only ones NOT at risk of being Dumped by Trump™️ are those who are the fruit of his loins.