Eleven months in the past, he endorsed Rep. Mo Brooks for the Alabama US Senate seat being vacated by Republican Sen. Richard Shelby.
The intervening months have urged that Brooks is effectively on his method to doing simply that.
Maybe extra importantly for Trump, Brooks — who had aggressively pushed the false concept that the 2020 election was someway stolen — is, within the former President’s thoughts, softening on the problem.
Add all of it up, and Trump is starting to search for an exit technique.
“Whereas Trump has been seething over Brooks’ lackluster marketing campaign efficiency for a number of months now, 4 individuals acquainted with the state of affairs informed CNN that he has reached his breaking level and is weighing when and the way he would possibly pursue a course correction within the contentious Republican major. …”
Trump then is attempting to border his second ideas on Brooks as a disagreement on precept. (“[W]hen you endorse any individual, you endorse any individual based mostly on precept,” he informed the Examiner. “If he modified that precept, I might haven’t any downside doing that.”)
However that is probably not what is going on on right here. Keep in mind the primary rule of Trump: At all times be a winner. And its corollary: At all times affiliate your self with winners.
Brooks seemed like a sure-fire winner almost a yr in the past when Trump endorsed him. He is proven himself to be a mediocre candidate with a lot much less of an opportunity of successful since then.
So Trump desires off the boat. As a result of that is what he does.
The Level: Loyalty is a one-way avenue for Trump. He will probably be loyal to you so long as it is good for him. And never one second longer. Sorry, Congressman.
