Rep. Mo Brooks, the House Republican most directly responsible for rallying congressmen to object to President-elect Joe Biden’s victory on Jan. 6, is defending his remarks at the “Save America” rally in front of the White House.
In a press release, titled, “Congressman Mo Brooks rebuts vicious & scurrilous fake news media and socialist Democrat attacks,” Brooks argued that the censure motion filed against him by Rep. Tom Malinowski, a New Jersey Democrat, was “reckless, defamatory, and deceitful.”
“I defend my honor and reputation against scurrilous, George Orwellian, 1984, Socialist Democrats Politics of Personal Destruction,” Brooks said. “I take great offense at anyone who suggests I am so politically inexperienced as to want to torpedo my honest and accurate election system effort I spent months fighting on.”
Calling into question Malinowski’s motivations in introducing the resolution, Brooks accused Democrats of resurrecting worn mechanisms to defame the Right and cement their hold on power.
“Let’s be clear, this entire smear campaign is about intimidating, censoring and suppressing the ability of American citizens to fight at the ballot box the efforts of Socialist Democrats to seize control of the United States of America,” he said.
Malinowski, along with Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, filed the censure resolution on Monday, arguing that Brooks “incited the crowd that attacked the Capitol, endangering the lives of his fellow members of Congress.”
During his remarks last Wednesday, Brooks delivered an energizing speech that riled up the crowd of protesters.
“Socialist Democrats attack our Bill of Rights on a daily basis,” he said. “They attack freedom of speech, freedom of association. They attack freedom of all kinds, including the right to bear arms. Now, let’s be clear about these socialist Democrats. They also want to destroy our free enterprise system. They don’t trust you with your individual liberty and freedom to do what’s best for yourselves or your families.”
Brooks was the first among the 138 House Republicans to announce he would contest the certification process. Last December, Brooks, along with 18 members of the GOP, sent a letter to congressional leaders demanding election fraud hearings prior to the vote on Jan. 6. Noting that at least one senator would need to join the House’s efforts, Brooks called on people to voice their displeasure with the vote tabulation process.
“Ultimately, whether a senator acts on behalf of our country will be determined by whether that senator’s employers, the American people, have made it known to the senators that this is a litmus test issue,” the letter said. “Either you fight for America, or voters never vote for them again and fight against them.”
