Rep. Adam Kinzinger on Sunday said he expects the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the capitol to issue “a significant number of subpoenas.”
Kinzinger, R-Ill., told ABC News This Week that the committee hopes to conduct the process of investigating the insurrection led by supporters of former President Donald Trump “expeditiously” adding that it is likely going to take “talking to a lot of people” along with thorough investigations.
“I would expect to see a significant number of subpoenas for a lot of people,” he said. “But I think the bigger thing is just what is the message that’s going to come out of this, is that the American people deserve the truth. They need the truth.”
When asked if the commission would issue subpoenas to House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., or Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, Kinzinger said he didn’t want to “get into naming names at this point but was in favor of seeking testimony from anyone who spoke to Trump on the day of the attack.
“I would support subpoenas to anybody that can shed light on that,” said Kinzinger. “If that’s the leader, that’s the leader. If it’s anybody that talked to the president that can provide us that information, I want to know what the president was doing every moment of that day.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., appointed Kinzinger to join the committee late last month after rejecting two of McCarthy’s picks, including Jordan, to serve on the committee. The Republican leader then withdrew all five of his selections.
When asked what Congress would do in the event that McCarthy, Jordan or others reject the subpoena, Kinzinger said such an issue would likely be handled by the committee’s lawyers.
Kinzinger went on to say that the committee may not need to hear testimony from Trump directly unless he had “unique information” about the events surrounding the riot.
“It’s going to depend on where the facts lead,” he said. “We may not even have to talk to Donald Trump to get the information. There were tons of people around him. There were tons of people involved in the things that led up to Jan. 6.”
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, echoed Kinzinger’s assessment saying that “there were many communications” with Trump on the day of the riot.
“I believe that while the rioters are primarily responsible for what happened, there’s no doubt in my mind that President Trump helped instigate and motivate the rioters,” Collins told CNN’s State of the Union. “And that’s one reason I voted to impeach him.”
Collins, who pushed was part of a failed effort to have an independent committee investigate the riots, criticized the select committee as “partisan” and said Pelosi should not have been able to select Kinzinger and Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming to serve as the Republican members.
“I respect both of them, but I do not think it was right for the speaker to decide which Republicans should be on the committee,” she said.
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All for show. What a disgrace Congress has become.
This is just another Democrat’s kangaroo court circus con.
Just like their fabricated phony impeachment charges against President Trump.
Nancy Pelosi admitted an unfortunate truth about
her fabricated impeachment “farce”
– It hinges on witness’s “allegations” not “proof”.
It’s Not A Question” Of “Proof”, It’s About “Allegations”
https://youtu.be/7dzhIxeF204
So if the disgraceful Nancy Pelosi’s Congressional Democrat Cult allegates that you are a frog.
You better start eating bugs and learn how to hop.
SHOW me the crook, and i will tell you what he is guilty of.
He would be better off issuing subpoenas to the Communist party members that also belong to the Democrat Party. In 1945 when WWII ended, those still swearing allegiance to the communist party were subject to arrest and prosecution. Here these days they just get put in charge of investigatng patriots and approving Russian gas pipelines.
SINCE HE IS ONE of those commies, HELL Will freeze over, before he EVER ISSUES any subpoenas to his own kind.
Oh, Adam Kinzinger, why don’t you and Susan Collins join the Democrat communist party and then subpoena yourselves and convict yourselves of being communist traitors?
YOu can bet, ALL those subpoenas he will issue, will ONLY BE FOR WHITE CONSERVATIVES..
Not a single Antifa/BLM member will get one.
chief of the gestapo kinzinger please take his little r from him.
Bet Kinzinger, the twerpy little runt, always got his lunch or lunch money stolen in school and now, like his butt buddy Schiff, he will get even with all his enemies.
Hope he gets same middle finger response to his subpoenas that Maricopa County & Dominion election machine company gave to the subpoenas from AZ Senate.
The millions of legitimate voters are sick of being told by Dem Party & flunkies that we just have to take their word for it that 2020 widespread voting fraud in their favor didn’t happen & furthermore they will cancel, forcibly silence & try to jail anyone who can prove otherwise.
The totally corrupt liars & cheats in Congress are just lucky that 75 million plus defrauded voters didn’t show up Jan 6 to protest the certification of bribe me demented Biden & violent criminal bail bond queen Harris, neither of whom had any national voter approval or support until magically in the wee hours of Nov 3-4.
Despite mass ballot harvesting & numerous other violations of state election laws the Dem Party still had to double / triple count Biden votes, hijack election machines & illegally round up & produce phony ballots for days & weeks after Nov 3.
IF i was the AZ senate, and dominon had thumed their nose at my subpoenas, THE NEXT STEP would have been to send STATE marshals, to ARREST THEM..