Adam Kinzinger Shares Why He Thinks Trump Threatened To Go After Jan. 6 Panel Members | EUROtoday

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) on Thursday mentioned the findings of the now-defunct House choose committee tasked with investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, rebellion, “embarrassed” President-elect Donald Trump, prompting his menace of retribution towards its members.

In an interview with CNN’s “The Source,” Kinzinger, one of many Republicans who sat on the Jan. 6 panel, mentioned that, regardless of the outrage the president-elect confirmed towards its work, the committee served its operate.

“I was in the legislative branch. We were investigating as per the request from Congress to do that,” Kinzinger mentioned. “We obviously came up with answers that embarrassed Trump. He was embarrassed by it. It showed that he was completely complicit for 187 minutes while violence happened.”

Kinzinger expressed indifference to Trump’s latest menace to jail a number of the committee’s members, addressing the president-elect immediately: “Sorry to embarrass you, Donald, but that’s what we were tasked with was the truth.”

“You want to threaten to throw us in jail for that?” he requested. “It just shows how small of a person you really are. I’m not intimidated. The person that intimidates me the least of anybody in this country is Donald Trump.”

In an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” broadcast Sunday, Trump falsely claimed that the panel “deleted and destroyed all the evidence” and recommended that some members of the committee “should go to jail.”

In December 2022, the committee launched its ultimate report detailing Trump’s efforts to remain in energy regardless of shedding the 2020 election. The 845-page doc additionally included suggestions on stop an analogous assault to the Capitol riot from occurring once more, together with by implementing the 14th Amendment’s ban on insurrectionists serving in workplace.

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.), the opposite Republican who served on the committee, additionally responded to the allegations Trump leveled towards the panel.

“Here is the truth: Donald Trump attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election and seize power,” she mentioned in a press release Sunday.

“Donald Trump’s suggestion that members of Congress who later investigated his illegal and unconstitutional actions should be jailed is a continuation of his assault on the rule of law and the foundations of our republic,” Cheney continued.

In an interview revealed by Time journal on Thursday, Trump additionally spoke about his pledge to pardon these charged for his or her function within the rebellion.

“Well, we’re going to look at each individual case, and we’re going to do it very quickly, and it’s going to start in the first hour that I get into office,” he mentioned. “And a vast majority of them should not be in jail. A vast majority should not be in jail, and they’ve suffered gravely.”

Kinzinger informed CNN’s Kaitlan Collins what he thinks Trump is making an attempt to convey with this assertion.

“This is basically sending a message not just that in his mind Jan. 6 was a beautiful day,” Kinzinger mentioned. “But I think he’s also sending a message that ‘look, if you commit violence on my behalf I will pardon you.’”

“That’s pretty chilling,” he added.