Last week, the Select Committee to investigate the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol issued subpoenas for five Republican members of Congress.
Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) announced that the Select Committee subpoenaed House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and U.S. Reps. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) and Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville).
Brooks reacted to the order Friday on WVNN’s “The Dale Jackson Show,” saying it was just a continuation of the “witch-hunt” against former President Donald Trump and Republicans who fought election fraud in 2020.
“I haven’t decided what I’m going to do with it,” he said. “I need to consult with some of the other Republican congressmen so that we can form a game plan, so to speak. I can’t help but note that the witch-hunt committee tends to focus on us fighting conservatives. If you look at who they have subpoenaed, that gives you a pretty good idea of who actually led the fight against voter fraud and election theft in 2020.”
While the congressman and Senate candidate said he would comply with any court order, he said this was something that should be done in view of the public.
“This is the public’s business,” he argued. “No more of this star chamber secret kind of stuff like the Democrats orchestrated to try to impeach Donald Trump, where they just created things out of thin air in order to justify their hatred for Donald Trump. That’s not the way to do it. This is the public’s business. I don’t want any leaks of my testimony out. I want the public to be able to see everything and in the context in which it’s stated.”
Brooks said that if he was going to be questioned, he wanted to be questioned by a member of Congress on the committee.
“I don’t want some underling to be doing the examination,” he said. “I’m more than comfortable with a congressman doing it, and if it’s important enough for me, a congressman, to spend my four or five days submitting to a deposition, preparing for a deposition, then by golly it ought to be important enough for the people on the committee to actually be there as they engage in this public questioning.”
The congressman emphasized that he had been open from the beginning on what he was doing on January 6.
“I covered everything,” he protested. “Part of the problem is now 18 months have passed since the stolen election in November of 2020. Sixteen months have passed since the January 6 event. If they had called me to testify a year ago, my memory would be a whole lot better, a whole lot sharper about what transpired.”
Brooks added in a statement that the subpoena was also part of a plan to hurt his chances of being elected to the Senate.
“It’s no coincidence” he said in a statement, “Nancy Pelosi and Liz Cheney seek to interfere with Alabama’s electing a conservative Senator by coming after me at the most campaign intense time of the GOP Primary and Runoff elections. Pelosi and Cheney hate America First candidates.”
Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” Weekdays 9-11am on WVNN. You can follow him on Twitter @Yaffee
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