The Republican Party should consider other candidates besides Donald Trump in 2024 after the former president was found guilty by a New York jury Tuesday in the E. Jean Carroll sexual assault case, according to former Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks.

Brooks, a Republican and once-prominent backer of Trump who had a prime speaking slot at the former president’s Jan. 6 rally shortly before the Capitol insurrection,” referred to Trump in a tweet Tuesday as a “repeat sexual predator offender.”

“GOP CANNOT afford REPEAT sexual predator offender as 2024 president nominee. Offends voters badly,” the former north Alabama congressman tweeted. “America needs strongest GOP candidate. Trump ain’t it. Character matters.”

The federal New York City jury found Trump liable Tuesday for sexually abusing Carroll, an advice columnist, in 1996. It awarded her $5 million in a judgment that could haunt the former president as he campaigns to regain the White House.

The verdict was split: Jurors rejected Carroll’s claim that she was raped, finding Trump responsible for a less serious form of sexual assault. But the judgment adds to Trump’s legal woes and offers vindication to Carroll, whose allegations had been mocked and dismissed by Trump for years.

Early on in Trump’s first presidential campaign in 2016, Brooks actually sided with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in the GOP primary.

Brooks told AL.com back then that he would never endorse Trump because of the then-candidate’s “serial adultery” and “hundreds” of other reasons.

“That is one of hundreds of things that are disconcerting about Donald Trump,” Brooks said. “If the voters knew Donald Trump’s background, what he intends to do as president, I am very confident you would have a mass exodus from Donald Trump’s support base. And it might be his gutter-mouth tendencies. I don’t want in the White House someone who in front of little children on national television uses the kind of profanity that Donald Trump uses.”

Associated Press reporting was included in this story.