Campaign momentum for the former president was viewed as “pretty disheartening” for a crying congressman turned CNN benchwarmer in a Bible-citing lamentation.
(Video: CNN)
With only 20 of the 1,215 delegates needed to secure the GOP presidential nomination awarded thus far, corporate media has appeared all-too willing to skip ahead to the general election with all the legal trouble that entails for former President Donald Trump. Even acknowledging the primary contest was not yet over came with sorrowful analysis from former Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R).
Joining the eponymous host of “Anderson Cooper 360°,” the politician turned senior political analyst spoke to the most recent Republican senator to endorse the GOP figurehead, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott despite having been originally appointed to that position by fellow White House hopeful and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley.
“I never expected this from Tim. I know him…as a decent man, as somebody that’s concerned about character. But he chose to put himself and his political career above his character as so many other people have,” Kinzinger said of Scott’s endorsement more than two months after suspending his own campaign for the presidency.
“Nikki Haley appointed Tim Scott to the Senate. She made him a U.S. Senator where he could then become a national figure and then launch his campaign for president that failed, and he could have waited until after New Hampshire,” the analyst went on. “But there is something that’s going on in people’s soul where it’s like, as the Bible says you know, what is to gain the whole world but lose your soul?”
“There’s people just wanting to gain the world right now and Donald Trump has done a masterful job of convincing people that they can’t stand up against him and so they won’t,” he argued before suggesting he had let opportunities to demonize Trump go unaddressed.
Continuing his screed against the former president, Kinzinger asserted, “Donald Trump is a masterful victim. He is actually one of the weakest men you’ll ever meet. He’s actually somebody that is scared of his own shadow and he’s frankly scared of everybody, but he puts up a really good front that he’s not and he puts up what appears to be a tough front and it cajoles people like Tim Scott to not even wait ’til after New Hampshire. Give Nikki a shot to actually take it to New Hampshire.”
“I don’t think this is gonna affect her in New Hampshire too much,” he contended of the potential impact the 26th U.S. Senate endorsement of Trump could have. “The one thing it does do is it shows the momentum that Donald Trump has been doing — I’ll objectively say — a good job of showing momentum and it’s actually pretty disheartening.”
A leading question among social media users after the interview was simply, “Is he going to cry again?”
Is he going to cry again?
— Davison Harley (@DavisonHarley1) January 20, 2024
Cry baby give him his Joe ba ba …….
— rob mitchell (@drumfreeks) January 20, 2024
I love to see him cry.
— 2Buggs (@KixMoxie2) January 20, 2024
Adam Kryzinger pic.twitter.com/Sw54mCJ3w5
— BeverlyConservative (@BeverlyConserv1) January 20, 2024
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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