Former U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) is backing recent comments made by former Vice President Mike Pence about the current frontrunner in the GOP presidential primary race.
Pence has been claiming that former President Donald Trump “demanded” he “chose between him and the Constitution” when he asked the vice president to reject electors Jan. 6.
Trump has since lashed out at Pence, calling him “delusional” and not a “very good person.”
“Mike Pence was justified in taking the stance he took on January the 6th,” Brooks said Thursday on WVNN’s “The Dale Jackson Show.” “He’s supposed to be the one to take the notes down and the notes he takes down are the acceptance or rejections by the United States Congress of Electoral College vote submittals of those of the various states.
“Mike Pence has no authority that I’m aware of in the United States Constitution to himself reject the electoral college vote submittals of any state.”
The former Senate candidate said this is an example of why Trump is not fit to be president.
“You’ve got a candidate, Donald Trump, who has on numerous occasions said that he’s not going to obey the United States Constitution,” Brooks said. “A document that, when a president is sworn in, they’re sworn to defend and protect the Constitution.”
He also thinks Pence is right to remind voters how Trump was wrong on this issue.
“And so what Mike Pence is doing is trying to remind people that Donald Trump in effect is telling all voters that he’s going to violate his oath, that Donald Trump’s word is not worth squat, and he’s going to violate the Constitution if he decides to, for good reason or bad reason or on a whim,” Brooks said
Brooks said Pence’s claims are similar to what Trump told Brooks to do when he was in Congress and running for the Senate.
“[Trump] also asked me to urge violating Constitution,” he said on his social media. “I refused.”
.@Mike_Pence: “I’m running for president in part because I think anyone who puts themselves over the Constitution should never be president of the United States,”#DonaldTrump also asked me to urge violating Constitution. I refused.
Character matters.https://t.co/AvLR8213yL
— Mo Brooks (@RepMoBrooks) August 7, 2023
Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” weekdays 9-11 a.m. on WVNN. You can follow him on Twitter @Yaffee
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