Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he will no longer be endorsing Rep. Mo Brooks in this year’s Alabama Senate race. The former US President slammed the Republican as “woke” and called him “disloyal” for doubting his claims that his defeat in the 2020 presidential election was due to voter fraud.

“When I endorsed Mo Brooks, he took a 44-point lead and was unstoppable. He then hired a new campaign staff who ‘brilliantly’ convinced him to ‘stop talking about the 2020 Election,'” Trump said in a statement.

“Very sad but, since he decided to go in another direction, so have I, and I am hereby withdrawing my Endorsement of Mo Brooks for the Senate. I don’t think the great people of Alabama will disagree with me. Election Fraud must be captured and stopped, or we won’t have a Country anymore,” he added. 

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Trump had reportedly been thinking about dropping his endorsement of the six-term conservative congressman for some time and also had talks with other candidates in the Republican primary.

Last week, in an interview with Washington Examiner, Trump had described Brooks as “disappointing” and said that he may pull his endorsement of Brooks.

This was the first time the former president publicly criticised Brooks though there were rumours that he wasn’t happy with the latter’s comments at a rally in Cullman in August 2021. 

Brooks, in the presence of Trump, had urged the crowd to move past the 2020 presidential election results, to “put that behind you” and “look forward.”

Speaking to Washington Examiner, Trump said, “I’m disappointed that he gave an inarticulate answer, and I’ll have to find out what he means. If it meant what he sounded like, I would have no problem changing [my endorsement] because when you endorse somebody, you endorse somebody based on principle. If he changed that principle, I would have no problem doing that.”