Adam Kinzinger’s Excuse for the January 6th Hearing Being Postponed Doesn’t Pass the Smell Test – Opinion

RedState previously reported that the January 6th Committee had postponed its next hearing. This was due to happen on Wednesday. After infighting between the members over whether to issue criminal referrals including for Donald Trump, Monday’s hearing was postponed.

Sources to mainstream media claimed that the delay was due to them needing more time to create video exhibits. To even those supportive of the committee, that shouldn’t make any sense. Do we believe the congressional members that have planned these hearings since a while, and then waited till the last minute to edit the video? Joe Biden mumbles, incoherently: “Come on, man.”

Rep. Adam Kinzinger commented and said nothing that passes the smell test.

Just to be clear: tomorrow’s hearing has been moved to next week. To space out the hearing, this change was made. #January6thHearingsNothing else. It is a pleasure to lead this hearing, and to present our findings to American citizens.

— Adam Kinzinger (@RepKinzinger) June 14, 2022

It’s not surprising that the absolute dumbest, least believable excuse for the postponement would come from the absolute dumbest member of the committee, and that’s saying something given we are talking about a group that includes Jamie Raskin and Bennie Thompson. Kinzinger actually wants you to believe that this last-minute change was done to “space out” the hearings as if the schedule hasn’t been set for months.

To even a casual observer, it’s obvious that’s just not a thing that happens. Any concerns about the speed of the hearings will have been resolved long before now. Kinzinger knows that, and you’d think he would come up with something more clever than insulting everyone’s intelligence.

But even taking him at his word, and you shouldn’t, isn’t his excuse an admission that the committee is flopping like a fish? Why would they need to change course and “space out” the hearings more if they were actually landing blows? The answer is obviously that the primetime opener and Monday’s effort were duds, leaving the committee members scrambling to come up with some other flash in the pan to push their narrative.

Of course, there’s one more possible explanation, which is that the committee has come to terms with the fact that they’ve got nothing and have now decided to try to stretch things out closer to November. The whole point of this ridiculous exercise is to support Democrats in the next mid-term elections. It’s all politics, and Kinzinger, being the sucker that he is, is dutifully playing his part. Cheney will end up with a golden parachute after she loses her primary, but he’ll be stuck doing daytime cable news hits.