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The official report of the House Select Committee, which runs to more than 800 pages, is too deeply biased to give much help. This was foreordained given the hyper-partisan way the Select Committee was formed. Then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected then-House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s two Republican appointments to the committee—Representatives Jim Jordan and Jim Banks—and instead appointed two virulently anti-Trump Republicans, Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger.More important than the report’s factual errors are the serious questions never investigated by the Select Committee. Why did Democrat congressional leaders turn down repeated offers of National Guard troops to protect the...

Former Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger wonders "why is it that whenever Republicans decide to boycott a company like Bud Light or Disney, it's okay? Yet when the rest of America protests against a company like Tesla because the CEO is running around telling Americans what government spending they can live without, then all of a sudden it's a crime. Why do we let them get away with double standards." Attorney General Pam Bondi explained that "there is no double standard. Boycotting a company's merchandise is a perfectly legal action. In a free society every individual can freely choose what they...

Per @POTUS directive, I have revoked former President Joe Biden’s security clearance, and revoked clearances and access to classified information for Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Fiona Hill, and Alexander Vindman.

Former GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger has accused MAGA of brazen hypocrisy over its fury at attacks on Tesla. Kinzinger, who served as a representative for Illinois from 2011 to 2023 and is vehemently anti-Donald Trump, contrasted the fury at Tesla being boycotted and its cars being vandalized with how Budweiser’s work with transgender social media creator Dylan Mulvaney set conservatives alight with anger in 2023. snip “So, here’s an interesting question. Why is it that whenever Republicans decide to boycott a company like Bud Light or Disney, they’re doing it because they’re victims of that company?” he said. “Yet when...

“Mark my words maga, you abandon Ukraine and you will make the Afghanistan withdrawal, and the failure to act in 2014, look like brilliant strategy,” Kinzinger said on X. “Trump will be seen as the worst president in history for foreign policy. A weak weak scared boy [sic].” Kinzinger has long held extremely hawkish views on Ukraine, introducing a joint resolution in 2022 to allow U.S. soldiers to enter Ukraine. He also insists the U.S. continue backing Ukraine in order to “exhaust” the Russians.

Former US congressman Adam Kinzinger is set to release his documentary The Last Republican very soon, and it’s landing at a fitting time. With Donald Trump voted the president-elect last month, the US political landscape is under the spotlight more than ever before. In the runup to the election, we had Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice, starring Sebastian Stan as the man himself. Earlier this year saw the release of the A24 doc The Sixth, which examined the January 6 Capitol attack, an event that was retold through a satirical lens in The Boys Season 4. Now, with the last...

Newly pardoned Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif) lashed out at President Trump's pardons for 1500 individuals convicted for their participation in the alleged insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, calling them "obscene and grotesque. Our democracy hung by as thread that day as a mob of MAGA extremists trespassed into the Capitol building forcing 100s of frightened members of Congress, myself included, to flee in fear for our lives." Newly pardoned Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md), condemned "the unjust release of domestic terrorists who tried to overthrow our government is despicable. If it weren't for the shooting of one...

Pam Hemphill, who received a two-month sentence in federal prison for her involvement in the January 6 riot at the US Capitol, tells CNN's Gary Tuchman she was "brainwashed."

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) on Wednesday criticized Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) for defending President Trump’s recent pardons for rioters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. “I’m speaking as a Christian here, I saw Speaker Johnson say, ‘We believe in redemption,’” Kinzinger said on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360.” “How dare you use the Bible in this?” “I mean, don’t talk about repentance, Speaker Johnson, defend this,” Kinzinger added later. “Go out and defend that there’s these criminals on the street now, do that. I’ll respect if you do it.” Kinzinger’s remarks were first highlighted by Mediaite.

Now-pardoned Adam Kinzinger said he didn’t want one two weeks ago: The second you take a pardon, it looks like you're guilty of something." ... So is Adam now admitting he is guilt of committing crimes? ... What illegal things did DC and Capitol Police commit .. ? the stench of treason and obscene cronyism. ... He still has the Biden crime family pardons to do ... Nothing admits guilt quite like a preemptive pardon in the final hours of an administration. ... They’ve now set an “immunity” precedent — party members and allies of the president can do whatever...

Wonder about their guilt no more. Everything we've said is true. Joe Biden loaded up the pardon shotgun and fired it. He has pre-emptively pardoned Anthony Fauci, Mark Milley and the entire Jan 6 committee. President Biden pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, Gen. Mark Milley (Ret.), and others who some speculated may have faced investigations under the incoming Trump administration on Monday. Biden's pardons come just hours before he is set to depart the White House and President-elect Trump takes the oath of office once again. The pardon also applies to a litany of people involved in the January 6 select...

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Friday joined outrage over Elon Musk’s endorsement of the far-right German political party Alternative for Germany (AfD), which has been criticized as a neo-Nazi group, ahead of February elections in the country. Musk, the tech billionaire and close ally to President-elect Trump, posted on his social platform X that “only the AfD can save Germany,” triggering backlash in the U.S. and from Berlin. “The out of touch billionaire running the incoming Trump Administration announced last night that he enthusiastically supports the neo-Nazi party in Germany,” Murphy posted on X, alongside a screenshot of Musk’s tweet....

President-elect Donald Trump, in his first post-election TV interview, promised a confrontational return to the White House, saying he would like to see many of those who investigated him jailed, including lawmakers who led an inquiry into his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. **SNIP** In a 45-minute interview with NBC News’s “Meet the Press” that aired Sunday and was recorded on Friday, Trump said members of the now-defunct House select committee tasked with investigating the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol should be in jail. “Everybody on that committee … for what they...

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), a frequent critic of President-elect Trump, praised the reported nomination of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) to serve as the next secretary of State. “You know, Marco Rubio has been obviously kind of changing. I think he even voted against Ukraine aid, which was very surprising, when I learned that,” Kinzinger said during his Monday evening appearance on CNN’s The Source.” “But he’s not a, you know, by no means is he like a neocon, so obviously that was important for Donald Trump, but he’s somebody that understands foreign policy. And that’s going to be important,”...

Where are the videos of Kinzinger crying post election?

Day #48 of the Top 50 songs on my iTunes playlist -- ranked in reverse order by play frequency from #50 to #1 and presented here on a series of FR threads. I've been posting them here on a new thread that compiles the growing list one day at a time over the last couple of months. We are coming down the home stretch here, folks -- and we will be done by early next week, God willing! And to show my gratitude to the FR management for giving us all a forum to post vanity threads like this, I'll...

A television reporter was wounded by an apparent bullet fragment while Missouri Democrat Senate candidate Lucas Kunce was shooting an AR-15 at a campaign event. The Kansas City Star reported that the event was held in a rural area north of Kansas City. The Star also noted, “Kunce was shooting an AR-15 at the time, and was the only person shooting when the injury occurred.” The reporter, KSHB-TV’s Ryan Gamboa, stood in place while Kunce bandaged the wound. With the election only two weeks away, Kunce had been stressing his military service as a way to appeal to voters, and...

Ryan Wesley Routh, the man named as the suspect in a possible assassination attempt near Donald Trump's Florida golf club, was calm and emotionless when he was arrested Sunday. Routh, 58 is in custody after the terrifying incident at Trump International Club almost exactly two months after a separate assassination attempt against Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The suspect was found unarmed, as a backpack, GoPro camera and AK-47 style rifle that a gunman left behind when fleeing the scene have already been located. Martin County Sherriff William D. Snyder said Routh 'was not displaying a lot of...

Former MSNBC analyst and U.S. Navy veteran Malcom Nance appeared Monday on The ReidOut from Ukraine, where he joined the International Legion of Territorial Defense to fight Russia’s continued invasion. For Nance, the war is personal, and he could no longer be a bystander. “I spent quite a bit of time here in the pre-war period, and when the invasion happened, I had friends who are in Donetsk, who are in the Ukrainian army, who are writing to us and telling us, ‘We’re not gonna survive tonight. We’ve been hit 500 times,’” Nance said, adding “The more I saw of...

They rushed to Ukraine by the thousands, many of them Americans who promised to bring military experience, money or supplies to the battleground of a righteous war. Hometown newspapers hailed their commitment, and donors backed them with millions of dollars. With Legion growth stalling, Ryan Routh, a former construction worker from Greensboro, N.C., is seeking recruits from among Afghan soldiers who fled the Taliban. Mr. Routh, who spent several months in Ukraine last year, said he planned to move them, in some cases illegally, from Pakistan and Iran to Ukraine. He said dozens had expressed interest We can probably purchase...