Adam Kinzinger Delivers Bluntest Of Responses To Trump Threat Question | EUROtoday

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) as soon as once more struck a defiant tone over the chance that Donald Trump could search to have him prosecuted over his work on the now-defunct House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, riot ― and whose findings accused Trump of plotting to reverse his 2020 election loss.

The president-elect has in latest days centered his ire on Kinzinger’s committee colleague Liz Cheney, the Republican former Wyoming congresswoman, and claimed she “could be in a lot of trouble” after a House GOP probe alleged she broke federal legal guidelines in the course of the probe. Cheney has dismissed the claims as “malicious and cowardly.”

Asked on CNN if he anticipated to “face similar attempts at criminal prosecution,” Kinzinger replied: “I don’t know. I mean, look. I’m not worried about it because obviously I didn’t do anything wrong, Liz didn’t do anything wrong.”

The yearslong critic of the returning POTUS added, “Constitutionally, there’s even a question even if something wrong was done, can the executive actually come after a legislator? But no, I’m not worried.”

Kinzinger then launched right into a fierce criticism of Trump, calling him “the most scared guy.”

Trump is “mad because he was embarrassed,” the previous lawmaker mentioned.

And the GOP is at the moment solely unified by “victimhood,” he added.

Trump “always has to be a victim,” mentioned Kinzinger, including that America is “still a country that’s a rule of law” and that the “last person in the world that scares me is Donald Trump.”

Earlier this month, Kinzinger responded to Trump’s feedback about jailing the committee members with: “Bring it on.” He added that the committee “was driven by facts, the Constitution, and the pursuit of accountability—principles that seem foreign to Trump.”