Corporate Backers Abandon Election Denier Mo Brooks, for Now
Although longtime donors including Boeing and Lockheed have suspended giving, the representative is considering a Senate run in 2022.
Representative Mo Brooks speaks at a rally in front of the White House on Jan. 6.
Photographer: Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo
Representative Mo Brooks won national notoriety on Jan. 6 when he told a restless crowd to “start taking down names and kicking ass,” shortly before some listeners besieged the U.S. Capitol as lawmakers planned to certify the 2020 election.
Hours after the riot, Brooks, an Alabama Republican, objected to the electoral vote count that made Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 presidential race, falsely claiming on the House floor that undocumented immigrants had voted en masse. The same day he tweeted baselessly that antifa, not supporters of then-President Donald Trump, “orchestrated [the] Capitol attack with clever mob control tactics.”