The death threats Rep Adam Kinzinger has gotten are a dark prelude to the upcoming Jan. 6 hearing

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/jan-6-hearing-focuses-trump-supporters-violent-extremism-n1297103?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma

One message left for Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., on his office voicemail describes him as a “backstabbing son of a bitch.” Another says Kinzinger, an Air Force pilot who flew in Iraq and is a lieutenant colonel in the Air National Guard, is “going to swing for f---ing treason, you communist f---.”

On July 5, Kinzinger, one of only two Republicans serving on the bipartisan Jan. 6 House committee, which meets again Tuesday, released a compilation of the threats he’s received, including those directed at his wife and newborn child.

These messages are an appropriate prelude to Tuesday's hearing, which is expected to focus on the extremist violence supporters of former President Donald Trump waged at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

And as the voicemails make clear, Kinzinger was being subjected to such vile, profanity-laced threats because of his work on the Jan. 6 committee and because of his criticism of Trump. The threats, he said when he released them, “are unhinged and all too common."

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[mopinko]

1. this really needs to be rubbed in the faces of the whole gqp.

[plimsoll]

2. Because they're proud of it?

They’ve had a week to respond. Oooo, I hear crickets.

[ancianita]

3. And he's Republican. Imagine what threats the rest of the committee has been getting.

The FBI's official mission is threat assessment. They should be on this. Sometimes we know they are, sometimes we don't. Recently we learned they've rounded up 1,500 criminals in a dragnet.

Those who won't 'live and let live' will have to learn the hard way about what America.

[Ligyron]

4. I wish they'd somehow trace these calls and prosecute some of these idiots.

I don't know where the technology on this is right now but it would be great to nab some of these Maga morans and make an example of them.

Until Trump,who among us would have imagined we were surrounded by such hateful ignorance?

Certainly not I.

[Different Drummer]

8. Trump validated their views.

Most of them had probably never had their hatefulness encouraged by people they knew. Trump, either cynically to get voter support or because he genuinely agreed with them, made them feel that their views were valid.

[Traildogbob]

5. Especially

Rubbed in the faces of those bitching about a Kavanaugh’s disturbed steak dinner. I sure wish the Otess Secretary would have thrown it back in Doooochee’s face as he hammered here about the terrorist’s harassing boof beer bong boy out of sight at dinner.

[Martin Eden]

6. DEPLORABLE is an inadequate term

Hillary was too kind in describing the basket these low-lifes are in.

[Initech]

7. These people are truly horrible on every level. They don't deserve power.