'Disgusting': Kinzinger slams Republicans who went after Hillary Clinton over her emails but are now defending Trump taking classified material to Mar-a-Lago

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Kinzinger slammed fellow GOP members criticizing Clinton over her emails but backing Trump following the Mar-a-Lago raid.

The FBI seized highly classified documents from Trump's Florida residence earlier this month.

"This is disgusting in my mind," Kinzinger said on "Meet the Press" on Sunday.

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Rep. Adam Kinzinger slammed fellow Republicans who criticized Hillary Clinton over emails but are backing former President Donald Trump after storing highly-classified documents at his Florida estate.

"The hypocrisy of folks in my party that spent years chanting 'lock her up' about Hillary Clinton because of some deleted emails or 'wiping a server' are now out there defending a man who very clearly did not take the national security of the United States to heart," Kinzinger told NBC's NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday.

When asked by Chuck Todd if Trump would be indicted after the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago, the Illinois lawmaker said it "will be up to DOJ whether or not that reaches a level of indictment."

"This is disgusting in my mind, and no president should act this way, obviously," he added.

—Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) August 28, 2022

The FBI seized more than two dozen boxes of government records, including some that were labeled top-secret. The DOJ recently released a redacted version of the FBI affidavit that granted the search.

During the 2016 campaign, GOP members slammed Clinton for using her private email server during her time as US secretary of state. Following news of the Mar-a-Lago raid, Clinton promoted her merch with the slogan "But her Emails," Insider reported.

Meanwhile, GOP members like Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar, Colorado lawmaker Lauren Boebert, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene spoke out against law enforcement after the raid.

AnalogDogg on August 28th, 2022 at 17:54 UTC »

The double standards are intentional. They see it as a sign of strength. "Following the rules" is a sign of weakness to them. They don't get embarrassed when you point out the hypocrisy, they feel confidence in their side refusing to compromise with the enemy. A former GOP president taking classified materials, either for illegal political motives or personal gain, is a winning move regardless of whatever potential damage it could do to the nation as a whole. If trump is hurting the nation, that's a good thing and hurts a nation you didn't want in the first place (a liberal one) or in a way that helps their side for whatever cost.

This is the fundamental difference between America's two biggest political parties: the democrats' binding message is to do things by the book and it's believe it will ultimately end up the best for everyone, democracy and all, regardless of the plethora of nuanced differences in politics among them. The GOP binds together over a select few wedge issues and their actions to win those political battles through any means necessary, illegal, immoral, or otherwise.

It's through shit-eating grins that any of these republicans are "slammed" for their hypocrisy.

fozan1968 on August 28th, 2022 at 17:30 UTC »

Don't be fooled. It's not about the documents or his stealing from charity, or his fraudulent college, or his racism or any of the other crap he's done. It's tribalism, us against them. They will defend this clown forever

2_Spicy_2_Impeach on August 28th, 2022 at 16:08 UTC »

Not just classified. Some of the most secret intelligence we have as a nation sitting in a box next to the fucking pool.