U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Huntsville, came out Tuesday in support of an embattled colleague in Congress accused of ignoring allegations of sexual abuse of athletes by a team doctor while a college wrestling coach.

Brooks posted his comments on Twitter voicing his belief that U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, did not know of claims by wrestlers at Ohio State that the team doctor was sexually abusing them.

Several former wrestlers have said publicly that Jordan was aware of the situation and did nothing.

Brooks works closely with Jordan in the House of Representatives as a member of the chamber's conservative wing known as the Freedom Caucus. Jordan is a co-founder of the unofficial caucus and a possible candidate to become Speaker of the House next year following the retirement of Paul Ryan.

Brooks' re-election campaign has received $8,200 this year from the House Freedom Fund political action committee, according to Federal Election Commission reports. That PAC was founded by Jordan.

"I have worked with Congressman Jim Jordan for more than seven years," Brooks said in his Twitter statement. "In my experience, he is a man of great integrity and honesty. Congressman Jordan is not at all hesitant to fight for his principles or fight on behalf of those he supervises or works with. I have no doubt that had Congressman Jordan had actionable knowledge that Ohio State University adult male wrestlers he helped coach were the targets of sexual abuse by a medical doctor, he would have done everything in his power to stop the inappropriate conduct. I believe Congressman Jordan when he says he had no actionable knowledge about these decades-old sexual abuse allegations now being publicized by former adult male wrestlers at Ohio State University."

My statement on unsubstantiated allegations against Congressman Jim Jordan: pic.twitter.com/SRRbMHrZe4 — Mo Brooks (@RepMoBrooks) July 10, 2018

Jordan has repeatedly said that he was not aware of any concerns of sexual abuse made by the wrestlers when he was an assistant coach at the school.

The Washington Post reported Tuesday that a crisis communications firm is working to defend Jordan from the allegations that he knew about the abuse and did nothing.

That firm released a statement from former Ohio State coaches that Jordan was unaware of any issues and, on Tuesday, a statement from 15 former OSU wrestlers who said they believed Jordan when he "he said he knew nothing about alleged groping and other misconduct" by Richard Strauss, the team doctor.

Strauss died in 2005.

Jordan was an assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State from 1986-94.

"I never saw, never heard of, never was told about any type of abuse. If I had been, I would have dealt with it," Jordan said in an interview last week with Fox News.

Pressed to explain why more than a half-dozen wrestlers have said that conversations about the abuse were common in the locker room, Jordan said, "Conversations in a locker room are a lot different than people coming up and talking about abuse. No one ever reported any abuse to me."

Brooks is not the first member of Congress to back Jordan. Among others are House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and Freedom Caucus chair Mark Meadows.