During a new appearance on CNN, Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) told host John Berman that in the future he’d tell his recently born son that Donald Trump was “the worst president the United States of America ever had.” Kinzinger also expressed confidence that Americans would be able to recover from the chaos of the Trump era, a recovery that he himself is attempting to help along, both with his work on the House committee investigating the Capitol riot and his public advocacy against the destructive lies that have been perpetrated by Trump and certain allies of the former president. Trump consistently claims without any legitimate supporting evidence that the last election was somehow rigged against him, but it’s not just about his lack of relationship to the facts. At issue is also the problem of how disturbingly easy that it’s been for Trump and others to try and push democracy aside.
As Kinzinger pointedly explained things, referring to his recently born son:
‘I’m going to tell him [Trump] was the worst president the United States of America ever had. He was a liar; he was a charlatan. And he was a man with a more fragile ego than anybody I’ve ever met, which the irony of it is, he walks around like the tough guy, but he’s the one that gets more offended and wounded and sad than anybody I know. I’m also going to tell him that it was the moment that I hope America hit the bottom of its slide towards authoritarianism, and the moment we woke up. I hope he’s proud of what I’ve done; I’m confident he will be, because short of [our country] really going off-the-rails… I think we’re going to look back and say, wow that was a moment we might have flown too close to the sun, and we can never do that again.’
Watch Kinzinger’s comments below:
The riot panel has scored some significant victories in their efforts to uncover the truth surrounding the attack on the Capitol and what to it. For instance, the U.S. Supreme Court — where three of Trump’s own picks currently serve — rejected an argument from the former president that certain records from his administration should be kept from members of the committee because of executive privilege concerns. That rejection has allowed the committee to obtain records like a draft executive order outlining a plan for the Defense Department to seize voting machines and other election-related materials for the purposes of a sham investigation into debunked allegations of systematic election fraud. Proposing for the military to help take over the continuance of the electoral process is disturbing, to say the least. Committee members are planning rounds of public hearings for the near future to essentially lay out the case for the American people.
Chris Christie, to @hughhewitt this am: "Let’s face it. Let’s call this what it is. January 6th was a riot that was incited by Donald Trump in an effort to intimidate Mike Pence and the Congress into doing exactly what he said in his own words last week – overturn the election."
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) February 7, 2022
