Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) on Tuesday shared profanity-filled threats and other obscenities that his office has received during the hearings by the House select committee into the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by a mob of Donald Trump supporters.
“Threats of violence over politics has increased heavily in the last few years,” Kinzinger tweeted. “But the darkness has reached new lows. My new interns made this compilation of recent calls they’ve received while serving in my DC office.”
Kinzinger and Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.), the two Republicans on the bipartisan panel, have been on the receiving end of much of the criticism from the former president’s supporters for their focus on Trump’s culpability for the insurrection and warnings that Trump is a threat to democracy. Seizing on Trump’s false claims of a rigged election, the mob tried and failed to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s presidential win.
In February, the Republican National Committee censured Kinzinger and Cheney for serving on the Jan. 6 committee, saying the panel was persecuting “ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse.”
Kinzinger tweeted some of the recordings compiled by high school and college students interning for him this summer and invited readers to listen to the attacks. One caller said he hopes Kinzinger dies quickly, while another called him a lying backstabber for his participation on the committee. Callers left racist comments and disputed the facts of the...
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