Kinzinger, for his part, believes his family members have been subject to brainwashing by their churches. I hold nothing against them, he told The Times, but I have zero desire or feel the need to reach out and repair that. That is 100 percent on them to reach out and repair, and quite honestly, I don t care if they do or not. The party s sick right now, Kinzinger told The Times, saying, that he plans to fight like hell to save it first before he would consider disaffiliating himself from the GOP.
But as The Times noted, Kinzinger could see himself drawn out of his district in upcoming post-2020 redistricting by Illinois Democratic-controlled state government. Illinois is one of several Midwestern states expected to lose a congressional district following the 2020 census.
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In 2016, Trump apparently directed an Illinois Republican to give Kinzinger a vulgar message.
When he heard it, Kinzinger reportedly laughed and turned the insult back at Trump.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, one of the most vocal Republican critics of former President Donald Trump, clashed with Trump as far back as 2016, The New York Times reports.
The Times said that before the 2016 US presidential election, Trump queried an Illinois Republican National Committee member about Kinzinger s reelection chances.
The RNC member, Richard Porter, reportedly told Trump that Kinzinger was running unchallenged. According to The Times, which usually avoids printing profanities, Trump then poked his finger in his chest and told him to deliver to Mr. Kinzinger a vulgar message about what he should do with himself.
Trump directed an RNC member to tell GOP Rep Adam Kinzinger a vulgar message about what he should do with himself in 2016, report says yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
(JTA) Rod Ponton, a small-town attorney from Texas, captured America’s attention this week after he showed up to a virtual courtroom looking like a fluffy white cat, thanks to a Zoom filter he couldn’t figure out how to disable.
It wasn’t the first time Ponton has made the national news.
In 2014, he drew notice over his involvement in an unusual drug case against a local businesswoman who at one point was released from jail only after promising not to say she was being persecuted because she was Jewish and who said Ponton had targeted her because years earlier she had ended a sexual relationship with him.