South suburban Congressman Adam Kinzinger is defending his role as one of only 10 House Republicans to vote to impeach President Trump.
Congressman Adam Kinzinger said he voted for Donald Trump’s re-election in November. He regrets that now because he believes the fellow GOP member incited the deadly violence at the Capitol last week.
“And I took that in account with the president’s four years of building a narrative — four years of making people believe that the election would be stolen, that there is a dark conspiracy, that the enemy of the United States is not China or Russia, it’s the Democrats and it’s the media. You cannot function with that as a common set of assumptions,” Kinzinger told WBBM Newsradio on Wednesday.
Kinzinger said friends and family members have severed ties with him because of his stance on the impeachment. He said voting his conscience was the most important thing, even if it jeopardizes his future in the party.
He said he hopes the Republican Party moves forward, accepting the truth that Democrat Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election, and moving beyond Trump.
The House’s 232-197 vote sends the single article of impeachment to the U.S. Senate, which presumably will hold a trial, but likely after Trump leaves office Jan. 20.
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