Mo Brooks’ first name is short for “Morris.”
It’s also short for “Moron.”
The Alabama congressman tried to nullify the Electoral College’s vote to certify that Joe Biden won the 2020 Presidential Election by claiming that Biden won because of widespread fraud in five states — Arizona, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia and Wisconsin — fraud that was so obvious and widespread there was no evidence of it.
When U.S. Senate Leader Mitchell McConnell acknowledged Biden’s victory, Brooks criticized McConnell. “It’s exactly what you’d expect from Senator McConnell. Senator McConnell is not the key to this. The key are the American voters.”
Yes, the eight million more Americans who voted for Biden than for President Donald Trump.
Brooks wasn’t just a charter member of the Big Lie that Trump won the election, he was the first member of Congress to reject the certification of the Electoral College. He made a series of floor speeches advancing voter fraud claims. Brooks didn’t just do everything he could to overturn the election – conspiring with other right-wing fanatics Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar — he encouraged Trump supporters to march on the US Capitol in a speech preceding the insurrection:
And how did Trump thank him for his unhinged loyalty?
Trump endorsed Brooks when he announced he was seeking an open US Senate seat. Trump then rescinded that endorsement when Brooks said that the president needed to move beyond the 2020 President Election because the results of the election could not be overturned.
Brooks’ statement was reasonable and undeniably factual.
So Brooks made a factual statement and it cost him Trump’s endorsement.
That’ll teach him.
Brooks has since said that Trump pressured him to overturn the election in September 2021 — more than seven months after he left the White House.
“Donald Trump wanted me to do four things: advocate rescinding the election, advocate physically removing Joe Biden from the White House, advocate reinstating Donald Trump as president of the United States, and advocate a new special election for president of the United States — all of which violate the U.S. Constitution and federal law,” Brooks said. “And after I got done explaining that to him, he withdrew his endorsement and endorsed my opponent. So I’m mildly surprised none of these people have made inquiries about the details of this, but it is what it is.”
Brooks said he was surprised that Jack Smith, the special counsel in charge of investigating the former president, has not asked him for an interview.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/mo-brooks-trump-overturn-2020-election-rcna96532
Maybe Brooks has himself to blame for this: He’s not exactly a credible source.
Brooks, a white supremacist, has, among other things, said in the past that the Republican Party is defending itself in a “war on whites,” and that that former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was framed by the FBI even though Flynn pled guilty to making false statements to the FBI. He believes that Nazism and socialism are the same thing. He knows he’s either a Nazi or a socialist but doesn’t know which one.
He railed against mask orders to contain the coronavirus pandemic, but supported Trump’s bogus claim that the drug hydroxychloroquine could contain the pandemic.
And there was the time that Brooks argued with Philip Duffy, who has a Ph.D. in applied physics from Stanford University and has dedicated his life to studying climate change. Brooks told Duffy during a congressional hearing that aired on CSPAN that Duffy and nearly every other climate scientist was wrong in their claim that global warming was not cause of the rise in ocean temperatures.
“I’m sorry, but I don’t know where you’re getting your information,” Brooks told Duffy. Sea levels were rising, he said, because rocks were falling into the ocean. “Every time you have that soil or rock whatever it is that is deposited into the seas, that forces the sea levels to rise,” Brooks said. “Because now you’ve got less space in those oceans because the bottom is moving up.”
Kyle Whitmire, who writes about politics in Alabama, said Brooks isn’t just ignorant by American standards of ignorance, he’s ignorant by Alabama standards of ignorance.
“Brooks’ antipathy toward evidence and expertise is nothing new in America and especially in Alabama. He’s channeling a populist resentment of professionals and hostility toward facts and established knowledge that has become the fashion of his tribe,” Whitmire said.
“But his actions leave just one question: Is he doing this deliberately, understanding full well that he’s exploiting a hazardous current coursing through American politics?
Or does he just not know any better?”
https://www.al.com/news/2020/12/mo-brooks-knows-better-than-you.html
How do you think he got his nickname “Mo”?
