Adam Kinzinger says he 'got super drunk' when Trump visited Republicans at a legislative retreat in January 2017: 'How do we deal with this?'
Long before breaking with the former president and serving on the January 6 committee, Kinzinger worked to cope with Trump's influence on the party.
news.yahoo.comJan. 6 panel deepens probe to Trump Cabinet, awaits Thomas
The House Jan. 6 committee plans to interview more former Cabinet secretaries and is prepared to subpoena conservative activist Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, who’s married to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, as part of its investigation of the Capitol riot and Donald Trump’s role.
Why Donald Trump can't be prosecuted for 'dereliction of duty' for his inaction on Jan. 6
Pro-Trump protesters and police clash on Jan. 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol. Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)During the prime-time hearing on July 21, 2022 of the House January 6 committee, the two panel members leading the hearing used the phrase “dereliction of duty” to describe the conduct of then-President Donald Trump. Trump “was told by everyone to halt the violence,” Rep. Elaine Luria, a Democrat from Virginia, said. “But he refused to do anything…It was a dereliction
news.yahoo.comAhead of primetime hearing, Rep. Kinzinger tweets testimony about what Trump was doing during Jan. 6 insurrection
Before the Jan. 6 hearing on Thursday night, committee member Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., tweeted a video with clips of interviews with Trump administration officials about what the president was doing during the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol.
news.yahoo.comEven a day after Jan. 6, Trump balked at condemning the violence
The hearing will focus heavily on Trump’s inaction in the White House during that time, the aides said on a background call with reporters. “We are going to remind people that there was this inaction at the White House.”AdvertisementThe hearing, whose chairman, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss. But with new evidence continuing to surface — and fresh investigation targets — committee members said this week that there are likely to be more hearings later this year. “There is no reason to assume this will be the final hearing,” one committee aide told reporters Wednesday. Already, committee members are beginning to discuss what kinds of recommendations to prevent a recurrence of Jan. 6 will emerge from an investigation that has stretched over a year.
washingtonpost.comAdam Kinzinger and his family are getting so many death threats over his Trump criticism that his office put together a 3-min audio clip
GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger and his family are receiving more threats for his involvement on the House committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot.
news.yahoo.comKinzinger shares compilation of vulgar and threatening calls
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) shared a compilation of around a dozen vulgar and threatening calls to his congressional office to highlight an increase in threats of violence in politics. “Threats of violence over politics has increased heavily in the last few years. But the darkness has reached new lows,” Kinzinger said in a tweet accompanying the…
news.yahoo.comJan. 6 panel considers criminal referral against Trump
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is talking publicly about the possibility it will recommend the first-ever prosecution of a former president. Meanwhile, CBS News has learned that Donald Trump has told allies he's considering announcing a 2024 presidential bid early. Scott MacFarlane has the latest.
news.yahoo.comJan. 6 panel: More turning up with evidence against Trump
A member of the House Jan. 6 committee says more witnesses are coming forward with new details on the Capitol insurrection following former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s devastating testimony last week against former President Donald Trump.
Jan 6 panel: More people turn up with evidence against Trump
More witnesses are coming forward with new details on the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot following former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson's devastating testimony last week against former President Donald Trump, says a member of a House committee investigating the insurrection. The panel already has subpoenaed former White House counsel Pat Cipollone, who investigators remain hopeful will appear Wednesday for a deposition, and said it would also welcome follow-up details from Secret Service members with Trump that day. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., cited Hutchinson's testimony that Trump wanted to join an angry mob that marched to the Capitol on Jan. 6 where they rioted as particularly valuable in “inspiring” more people to step forward as the committee gets set for at least two public hearings this month.
news.yahoo.comKinzinger hits back at Boebert’s church and state remarks: ‘We must oppose the Christian Taliban’
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) on Wednesday criticized comments that Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) made on Sunday in which she called for ending the separation of church and state in the United States. Boebert said in a speech at the Cornerstone Christian Center in Basalt, Colo., that she is “tired” of the principle and falsely claimed…
news.yahoo.com"Pure insanity": Witnesses say Trump pursued conspiracy theory that Italian satellite switched ballots
At the fifth public hearing of the House select committee investigating January 6, Republican committee member Rep. Adam Kinzinger, former Acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue, and former Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen discussed President Trump's insistence that federal officials pursue a "wild, baseless conspiracy theory" about an Italian satellite switching ballots.
news.yahoo.comTakeaways: Trump risked provoking 'constitutional crisis'
The House Jan. 6 committee used its hearing Thursday to show how Donald Trump tried to install a loyalist atop the Justice Department who would pursue his false claims of voter fraud and stop the certification of the 2020 election that Democrat Joe Biden won.
U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert asked Trump for a pardon after insurrection, Jan. 6 committee reveals
Gohmert was mentioned several times during Thursday’s hearing, which focused on the coordinated effort by Trump and his allies to convince the Justice Department to investigate voter fraud and help overturn election results.
EXPLAINER: How platforms dealt with 'RINO hunting' video
When a GOP Missouri U.S. Senate candidate released a video Monday in which he cocked a gun after calling for a hunt of fellow Republicans who he believes are “RINOs,” or Republicans in Name Only, Facebook scraped it off its platform within a few hours.
Jan. 6 panel releases video of Capitol tour before attack
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection released video on Wednesday of a Capitol tour led by a Republican lawmaker the day before the attack, showing at least one participant taking photos of stairwells and tunnels in the Capitol complex.
GOP now looks to censure Cheney and Kinzinger, not oust them
Republican officials meeting in Utah have advanced a watered-down resolution that would formally censure Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for their perceived disloyalty to former President Donald Trump but not try to expel them from the party.