Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill) told the New York Times that he suspects some members of Congress knew what would happen on Jan. 6 and supported it.
Asked by the New York Times Magazine’s talk columnist David Marchese if he suspected that some members of Congress were aware of what was going to happen that day and if they supported it,” Kinzinger said he has his suspicions.
“I won’t name names, but yes, I do have that suspicion,” Kinzinger said. “I will say, if you just looked at Twitter — the whole reason I brought my gun and kept my staff home and told my wife to stay in the apartment was looking at Twitter.”
“When Lauren Boebert — I will call her out by name — tweeted “Today is 1776,” I don’t know what that meant other than this is the time for revolution,” he continued. “Maybe it was a dumb tweet that she didn’t mean. Fine. I’ll give her that credit for now. But if you have members of Congress who were involved in nurturing an insurrection, heck yeah, we need to know.”
Kinzinger was one of ten House Republicans who voted to impeach Donald Trump for inciting an insurrection. But, he was one of two Republican members of Congress who voted with Democrats to form a select committee to investigate the deadly riot.
Rep. Kinzinger says he is hoping that a congressional investigation might reveal “what members of Congress knew and were involved,” in Jan. 6.
“I made the decision early in my career that I would be willing to take a potentially career-ending vote,” says Kinzinger. “But I thought that vote would be for something like a Social Security reform bill. I never thought it would be for defending democracy.”
