Mo Brooks Goes Hard in the Tank for Big Lie in Wild Fox Interview, Fumes Trump Was ‘Robbed’ While Touting Loony Election Doc 2,000 Mules
Senate hopeful Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) needs to close a gap of more than 15 points if he’s to prevail in his runoff with Katie Britt on June 21. If a new Fox interview is any indication, it seems his strategy will be to aggressively court supporters of former President Donald Trump — whose endorsement he lost after delivering a mild rebuke of Jan. 6. And what better way to appeal to Trump and his voters — Brooks has evidently determined — than to completely embrace the false notion that the 2020 election was rigged.
In a wild interview with Sandra Smith on Fox News Sunday, the Alabama congressman went completely in the tank for Trump and the Big Lie.
“He was robbed, in my judgment, in 2020,” Brooks said of Trump. “In his judgment, he was robbed.”
Brooks explained that his dispute with Trump was solely about the continued efforts to reverse the outcome of the 2020 election. But in principle, the Senate hopeful made clear he completely supported the incorrect notion that the contest was fixed against the former president.
Fox News anchor Sandra Smith called out the congressman with an on-the-spot fact check, before Brooks frantically intejercted.
“Just to go on the record, there has been still no evidence or proof provided that there was any sort of fraud in that election—” Smith said.
“That’s wrong,” Brooks said. “I don’t know why you people in the media keep saying that! But that is absolutely false! That is absolutely false. You keep saying it every time, but that’s absolutely false.”
Brooks tried to bolster his argument by invoking the many other elected officials who also believe Trump’s completely unsubstantiated claim — which numerous fact-checkers have fully rejected.
“You had 150 congressman and senators who absolutely disagree with you on what you just said,” Brooks told Smith. “So what you calling them? What are you calling them when you say 150 republican senators and congressmen looked voter fraud issue and said there was a major problem?”
Smith then invoked a Wall Street Journal article about the sudden resignation of the Republican election commissioner of Wisconsin, Dean Knudsen — who feels he doesn’t represent the GOP’s views in relation to the 2020 election. The Fox News anchor quoted Knudsen saying, “There’s no evidence that election fraud is the reason Trump lost Wisconsin, and that’s not for lack of looking.”
Brooks then more-or-less argued that he had better insight into Wisconsin’s elections than the Republican official charged with leading them.
“Look at the special investigation of a former Wisconsin supreme court justice who found significant voter fraud at nursing homes in the state of Wisconsin,” Brooks said, before touting Dinesh D’Souza’s heavily debunked Big Lie documentary 2,000 Mules. “Look at the 2,000 Mules documentary that has come out.
Smith delivered one final rebuke.
“That has been looked at, and fact-checked by multiple outlets, including Reuters, who have debunked that as any sort of proof that there was widespread voter fraud,” Smith said.
“You’re absolutely wrong, Sandra,” Brooks replied. “But keep going with that story if you wish.”
Watch above, via Fox.
