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Former President Trump on Thursday denied claims from Alabama Senate candidate Mo Brooks (R) that he asked the congressman to help remove President Biden from office.
Catch up fast: After Trump withdrew his endorsement for Brooks, the Senate candidate said that Trump asked him to "rescind the 2020 elections" and to "immediately remove Joe Biden from the White House."
- Trump un-endorsed Brooks for telling a Trump rally that it was time to move on from the 2020 election.
What he's saying: "I didn’t ask him to do it. He's in no position to do it. I certainly didn't ask him to do it," Trump said in an interview with the Washington Post.
- "But I believe when you see massive election fraud, I can't imagine that somebody who won the election based on fraud, that something doesn’t happen? How has it not happened?"
What's also happening: During the interview, Trump also defended his silence on Jan. 6, when a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol building. Instead, he said it was the responsibility of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser to stop the violence.
- Trump bragged about the size of the crowd that he spoke to at the Ellipse, where he encouraged supporters to march to the Capitol.