All posts tagged "Adam Kinzinger"

Federal regulators are probing former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), a vocal critic of President Donald Trump, over bets he placed on his pardon.

Citing three people familiar with the matter, Politico reported on Tuesday that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has been examining trades made in December 2024 and January 2025 by a Kalshi account tied to the Illinois Republican. Kalshi, a prediction market platform that says it monitors for insider trading on political events, is reportedly conducting its own review of the activity.

Kinzinger was among the members of the House committee that investigated the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack who received preemptive pardons from former President Joe Biden in the final hours of his term. Trump had previously called for the panel's members to be jailed....

Former Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger ripped into President Donald Trump's claim that the triumphal arch has a national security purpose.

On Friday, Kinzinger appeared on CNN to discuss Trump's claim that the arch will house snipers on its roof, giving it a national security purpose. Kinzinger, a veteran, said the idea is obviously far-fetched.

"It's clearly ludicrous, and I think everybody knows that," Kinzinger said. "It's almost like whenever this president says things, we just kind of wink because we know it's not serious."...

Footage of hundreds of masked men storming Washington, D.C., with Confederate flags spurred an outcry online Saturday.

An estimated 400 masked men, whom Reuters reported were with the right-wing extremist group Patriot Front, marching into D.C. on July 4 with Confederate flags, online video shows.

On X, the video spurred outrage. ...

A former GOP congressman is calling out a failed Trump administration investigation into voter fraud.

Adam Kinzinger described how Trump set out to prove "stolen elections," specifically by looking at voting machines. Ultimately, the investigation failed to dig up any instances of fraud, Kinzinger said.

He was referring to a probe that stemmed from a Trump executive order from last year, according to Reuters, which broke the exclusive. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence produced the report, but Reuters reported that it found no evidence that machines that will be used in the midterms caused votes to flip....

A former lawmaker and critic of President Donald Trump slammed the president's Iran war decisions following his announcement on Monday to stop a planned military attack amid "serious negotiations" and telling the military to be ready "on a moment's notice."

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) told CNN that Trump's Truth Social post announcement stating alleged negotiations underway and that an attack had been stopped by allies was putting the United States in a bad position.

"This is so damaging," Kinzinger said. "You know, regardless of let's just be, you know, agnostic on whether he should attack again or not for the moment when you make threats and then you're eager to back down from those threats, which he has been every single time. I mean, he's gone from 'we will destroy an entire civilization' to 'we have a deal,' which we never actually had, by the way, claiming the strait's open, claiming it's closed, claiming he was going to pull the trigger on May 19th."...

An ex-GOP congressman couldn't believe what he heard when learning about the Trump family's gold "Made in USA" phone that's starting to sound like it could be a scam.

"Company executives confirmed the phone would actually be manufactured overseas with only the final assembly of about 10 components happening in Miami," Adam Kinzinger, a former GOP lawmaker and outspoken Trump critic, said in a video he posted on X on Tuesday.

Kinzinger was talking about Eric and Donald Trump Jr.'s venture to sell a gold Trump phone, the T1, which was marketed as made and manufactured in the United States with wireless service from Trump Mobile. The two sons collected an estimated $59 million in deposits from an estimated 590,000 buyers — figures that Trump Mobile executives have refused to confirm. As of this month, not a single confirmed customer has received the device....