On CNN’s “The Situation Room,” host Wolf Blitzer asked Kinzinger to weigh in on how much of a national security risk it was to keep such sensitive material outside a secure government space, as many Republicans defend Trump and insist he doesn’t he did nothing wrong. “The explanations from Donald Trump that he was afraid of things came from suddenly saying that he just mentally dismissed those things by saying, well, people take work home all the time, I mean, like anything, just like on January 6, when it started as an antifa operation, then it was the FBI, and then it was really just a bunch of tourists, and then it was a bunch of misunderstood people,” Kinzinger told Blitzer. “There is always an evolving explanation, but that evolving explanation is always a lie, and it points to the fact that Donald Trump knew what he was doing,” Kinzinger concluded. “So I don’t know the details of the raid. But it certainly appears that Donald Trump’s explanation is not accurate.” Kinzinger is on the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on Capitol Hill. Lawmakers have spent months trying to determine Trump’s involvement in the attack that day, detailing a campaign to pressure former Vice President Mike Pence and other officials to overturn the election results, while urging his supporters to “fight like hell” in the aftermath. of 2020. electoral defeat. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate was searched last week by the FBI, after which an unsealed search warrant was released Friday detailing how federal authorities suspect Trump violated the Espionage Act and other laws. Trump trashed the FBI and the Justice Department while giving various explanations for why he did nothing wrong. He denounced the agency’s action as “political prosecution” and at one point floated the idea that evidence had been planted in the investigation. Apple tries again with back-to-office date: report Weisselberg to plead guilty in Trump tax case: report Trump’s argument then evolved, with the former president and his team saying he had declassified the documents at Mar-a-Lago. The Trump team later issued a statement saying that “everyone ends up bringing their work home from time to time” and that Trump would take documents, including classified documents, to his residence to “prepare for work the next day.” In his latest defense, Trump claimed documents covered by attorney-client and executive privilege were obtained and called on the FBI to return them.
