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GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger calls Trump 'an utter failure' after the former president said that the Capitol rioters posed 'zero threat'

Summary List Placement GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, one of the most prominent Republican critics of former President Donald Trump's influence over the party, went after the former president again last week.
When Trump called into the Fox News host Laura Ingraham's nightly show, he continued to push 2020 election-related complaints, but Ingraham pivoted to the deadly January 6 Capitol riot , asking the former president if he's concerned that the US Capitol has become a "fortress" after attempted insurrection.
"I think it's disgraceful," he said. "It's a political maneuver that...
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Trump was 'manifestly false' in claiming the Capitol rioters posed 'zero threat,' said his former chief of staff

20 days ago | By Business Insider

Summary List Placement Donald Trump's ex-chief of staff has said that it was "manifestly false" of the former president to suggest that a mob of his supporters who breached the Capitol building in January posed "zero threat."
Mick Mulvaney, who resigned as the White House special envoy to Northern Ireland after the deadly January 6 riot, told CNN that he was "surprised" to hear the president say his supporters were "hugging and kissing" police officers. Five people, including a police officer, died as a result of the attack.
"I was surprised to hear the President say that," Mulvaney told...
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