GOP Rep Adam Kinzinger, one of two Republicans on the Jan. 6 committee, slammed his party Sunday.
Kinzinger has charged that Trump knew he lost the 2020 presidential election ahead of the Capitol riot.
"Unfortunately, my party has utterly failed the American people at truth. It makes me sad, but it's a fact," he said.
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GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger, one of two Republicans in the Jan. 6 committee, said on Sunday that former President Donald Trump "knew what he was doing" ahead of the Capitol insurrection and his party has failed "at truth."
In an interview with ABC's "This Week," when asked if he thinks Trump should be prosecuted, Kinzinger told host George Stephanopoulos, "I certainly think the president is guilty of knowing what he did, seditious conspiracy, being involved in these, you know, kind of different segments of pressuring the DOJ, vice president, et cetera."
"Unfortunately, my party has utterly failed the American people at truth. It makes me sad, but it's a fact," Kinzinger, one of two Republicans on the Jan 6. committee, said.
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"The president absolutely tried to overthrow the will of the people and he tried to do it initially through misinformation, through the Department of Justice, through pressuring the Vice President, and then on January 6," he said last week on CBS's "Face the Nation."
According to a new Ipsos/ABC News poll, a majority of Americans Trump say should be criminally charged for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
"Obviously, you know, we're not a criminal charges committee. So I want to be careful and specifically using that language," Kinzinger said Sunday. "But I think what we're presenting before the American people certainly would rise to a level of criminal involvement by a president and definitely failure of the oath has to matter here, your personal demand to stand for the Constitution has to matter."
EmmaLouLove on June 19th, 2022 at 22:28 UTC »
“Unfortunately, my party has utterly failed the American people at truth. It makes me sad, but it's a fact," Kinzinger, one of two Republicans on the Jan 6. committee, said.”
Kinzinger is having an existential crisis realizing that his Party may be beyond repair. It is similar to what I felt when finding out a majority of evangelicals voted for Trump. How can otherwise intelligent people be so duped by someone like Trump who lies on a daily basis? It is beyond me.
Adam, I’m going to give you some advice. Understand that the Republican Party you thought you knew is gone. If they wanted to shift away from Trump and his seditious behavior, they would’ve done so a long time ago. They are now full on the party of Trump.
The Republican Party is an autocratic party willing to throw the rule of law under the bus and follow a corrupt former president. This is sad but true.
Laminatrix2 on June 19th, 2022 at 21:47 UTC »
Truth is only the beginning really. Decency, honesty, doing what is right, standing up to corporate interests...
intestinewinegum on June 19th, 2022 at 21:39 UTC »
And failed them at human decency.
And failed them at enabling their pursuit of happiness.