{"id":3112,"date":"2023-01-02T02:46:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T08:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3112"},"modified":"2023-03-14T02:13:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T07:13:04","slug":"i-fear-for-the-future-of-this-country-if-trump-isnt-charged-over-jan-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3112","title":{"rendered":"<strong>I \u2018fear for the future of this country\u2019 if Trump isn\u2019t charged over Jan. 6<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Outgoing Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger said Sunday he fears for the future of the country if former President Donald Trump isn\u2019t charged with a crime related to the\u00a0January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, though he believes the Justice Department will \u201cdo the right thing.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cIf this is not a crime, I don\u2019t know what is. If a president can incite an insurrection and not be held accountable, then really there\u2019s no limit to what a president can do or can\u2019t do,\u201d the Illinois lawmaker told CNN\u2019s Dana Bash on \u201cState of the Union.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cI think the Justice Department will do the right thing. I think he will be charged, and I frankly think he should be,\u201d Kinzinger said of Trump. \u201cIf he is not guilty of a crime, then I frankly fear for the future of this country.\u201d<br \/>\nKinzinger served as one of two GOP members on the House select committee investigating the Capitol riot. The panel\u00a0concluded its work\u00a0last month and laid out a case for the DOJ and the public that there is evidence to pursue charges against Trump on multiple criminal statutes.<br \/>\nThe\u00a0committee referred Trump\u00a0to the department on at least four criminal charges: obstructing an official proceeding, defrauding the United States, making false statements, and assisting or aiding an insurrection. The panel also said in its executive summary that it had evidence of possible charges of conspiring to injure or impede an officer and seditious conspiracy.<br \/>\nIn practice, the referral is effectively a symbolic measure. It does not require the Justice Department to act, though special counsel Jack Smith, who was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate Trump, has\u00a0requested evidence\u00a0collected by the select committee.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Republican Party is not the future of this country unless it corrects,\u201d Kinzinger told Bash, adding that he views GOP leader Kevin McCarthy as responsible for Trump\u2019s political resurrection following January 6.<\/p>\n<p>Cnn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outgoing Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger said Sunday he fears for the future of the country if former President Donald Trump isn\u2019t charged with a crime related to the\u00a0January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, though he believes the Justice Department will \u201cdo the right thing.\u201d \u201cIf this is not a crime, I don\u2019t know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1285,1142,3213,1230],"class_list":["post-3112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-his","tag-jan","tag-king-singer","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7405,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions\/7405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}