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Mo Brooks Pays $25K To Trump Resort After Former Guy Endorses Senate Bid

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Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), who is currently a candidate for Alabama’s U.S. Senate seat, paid out over $25,000 to former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort just days after receiving an endorsement from Trump.

Brooks is running for the seat being vacated by Sen. Richard Shelby, who has announced he will not run for reelection in 2022. The seat has been rated as “solid” for the Republican Party by multiple political ratings organizations.

On Thursday, in a federal campaign finance filing, Brooks’ campaign disclosed that it had paidover $25,000 to Mar-a-Lago for catering and event space. Shelby held a fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago on April 23 and Trump, who currently lives at the resort after losing the presidential election, was scheduled to be in attendance. Continue reading.

Trump endorses Alabama’s Mo Brooks for Senate, a promoter of his false claims of a stolen election

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President Donald Trump made his first major foray into the 2022 battle for the Senate on Wednesday, endorsing Rep. Mo Brooks to succeed Sen. Richard C. Shelby in Alabama — a major boost for a candidate who has operated on the rightmost edge of the Republican Party and who emerged last year as one of the foremost promoters of Trump’s false claims of a stolen election.

Trump’s move could pose a dilemma for Senate Republican leaders who will have to choose whether they want to try to stop the ascension of the conservative firebrand or support his candidacy as part of their embrace of the former president’s brand of populism that increasingly defines the party.

“Few Republicans have as much COURAGE and FIGHT” as Brooks, Trump said in a statement issued through his Save America super PAC. “Mo is a great Conservative Republican leader, who will stand up for America First no matter what obstacles the Fake News Media, RINOs, or Socialist Democrats may place in his path.” Continue reading.