At a recent Jan 6 hearing, Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger destroyed any positive image anyone would have of Donald Trump. MAGA, listen.
MAGA followers, heed GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger
I had to do a double-take on this complete Trump excoriation. Adam Kinzinger did not hold back. This type of Trump-lambasting coming from a very Right-Wing conservative Republican is even more telling. While it will not reach the many mindless MAGA sycophants, it will touch many trying to hold on to what they hope is still a Republican Party.
“President Trump tried to erase his loss at the ballot box by parachuting an unqualified man into the top job at Justice,” Kinzinger said. “It was a power play to win at all costs, with no regard for the will of the American people. It was about ignoring millions of votes. Ignore them, throw them out, label them fraudulent, corrupt, illegal, whatever. Facts were clearly just an inconvenience.”
Kinzinger had a lot more to say. He addressed the big lie directly.
“From the Oval Office, President Trump urged others to bring his big lie to life,” the congressman continued. “He begged. ‘Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen.’ He didn’t care what the department’s investigations proved. What good were facts when they would only confirm his loss? And it’s no surprise that all the far-out, fully fabricated whack job conspiracy theories collapsed under even the slightest scrutiny.”
Kinzinger pointed out that all of the senior leadership in the Justice Department confirmed that the election was clean. And he inferred it was Republicans who made that clear.
“That insanity went from the Internet to the highest levels of government in no time,” Kinzinger said. “The bottom line the most senior leadership of the Justice Department from Attorney General Bill Barr to Jeff Rosen, his successor, and his deputy, Rich Donoghue. Everyone except Jeff Clark was telling President Trump the very same thing. The conspiracy theories were false. The allegation of a stolen election was a lie. The data left no room for doubt, nothing to question, and the Constitution left no room for President Trump to change the outcome of the election.”
And then this most striking statement that should be enough for most. Kinzinger made it clear the president was a fraud.
“[Trump] was willing to sacrifice our republic to prolong his presidency,” Kinzinger said. “I can imagine no more dishonorable act by a president.
The congressman’s closing statement was an admonition to all.
“It’s now up to every American, now and in the future, to stand for truth,” Kinzinger said. “To reject the lies wherever we confront them in our towns, in our capitals, in our friendships, in our families and at the ballot box and within our own minds and hearts.”
That is a sentiment most Americans should agree with now. One hopes that enough do before the drive to fascism becomes irreversible.