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Adam Kinzinger

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Adam Kinzinger is a former U.S. Representative for Illinois's 16th congressional district, serving from 2013 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party, Kinzinger gained national attention for his outspoken views on various political issues, particularly his criticism of former President Donald Trump. He was one of the few Republicans to support the impeachment of Trump and served on the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Capitol riot.

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Dec 17, 2024

He is mad because he was embarrassed, but he also knows that the only thing right now that unifies the Republican Party... is victimhood.

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Dec 15, 2024

Look who is pissed, the MAGAs. Somehow this is political. They are MAD it’s not Iran or aliens.

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Dec 15, 2024

I've spent the last couple of days looking at every one of these videos, every video I have seen on Twitter, and on the Internet are all airplanes.

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Nov 20, 2024

I think there's going to be some senators that actually kind of look at this very critically.

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Nov 20, 2024

Yes, I mean, the vast majority of Republicans will do whatever Donald Trump wants, and he wants it to be Pete Hegseth.

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Nov 20, 2024

Well, I mean, better than Gaetz. I mean, you know, a bag filled with peanut butter would be better than Gaetz.

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Nov 18, 2024

I think Donald Trump truly wants him in. This idea of a sacrificial lamb I don't think that's the case.

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Nov 18, 2024

No. Absolutely not and keep in mind, Medicare and Medicaid obviously is very complex.

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Nov 14, 2024

American people deserve transparency particularly because Matt Gaetz is up to be attorney general.

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Nov 13, 2024

This is a guy, you know, if Matt Gaetz was just going away, I think you can make an argument for he's out of the House, don't release it. But now that Matt Gaetz is up for attorney general, the number one law enforcement position in this…

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Nov 13, 2024

Look, Tulsi is very pro Bashar al-Assad, who was committing genocide against his people.

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Nov 11, 2024

This sounds eerie and again, it sounds like the focus is going more to make DoD more Republican instead of more efficient.

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Nov 11, 2024

I mean it depends, obviously, it's weird and there's only one reason he's doing it because he's on Fox News.

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Nov 11, 2024

My guess, and my kind of prediction here, is they're putting Pete Hegseth up to really stir the pot.

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Oct 31, 2024

if Donald Trump is saying that anybody who is scared of battle somehow can't have an opinion or can't do anything regarding national defense then what the hell is he doing running for president?

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Oct 2, 2024

We've got to take a strong stand to save this party in the country.

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Oct 2, 2024

She's made it very clear, she's actually taken a lot of real estate that Donald Trump vacated. He's not proud of America, the Republicans aren't proud of America. They're proud of America and their vision of 1950.

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Oct 2, 2024

So what changed? Well, the answer this is really simple. We did not bow the knee and pledge allegiance to Donald Trump. So, anybody that tries to pretend like somehow this party is the same party and this is the group were talking to. You…

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Sep 17, 2024

This is a very damaging thing. I mean, we can try to justify this by saying it was an awkward transition and you know okay. But she could always come out and apologize today, but nobody apologizes anymore because that's weakness.

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Sep 17, 2024

I think it's absolutely about that. It's about division. Look, we learned in politics, basically from the day I got in there and we kept learning this lesson every day, which is if you make people fearful or you make them angry you can…

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Sep 8, 2024

Donald Trump gets away with literally anything he's thrown so much garbage at the wall that people are just fatigued with it.

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Sep 8, 2024

When he is saying that the election is going to be stolen, all he's doing is setting up so that when he loses, if he loses, he can then turn around and say, see, I told you it was going to be stolen.

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Sep 8, 2024

People hold her to the standards they would hold a normal person and they hold Donald Trump by a complete different double standard.

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