While acknowledging that reaching the truth of what transpired on January 6, 2021, is essential, Kinzinger stressed that the Jan. 6 committee’s work is not limited to looking at information from that date alone.
“Everything prior to that is the rot in the democracy or the rot in self-governance that we have to correct so we don’t get another January 6th,” Kinzinger stated. “So absolutely anybody, nobody - members of Congress, the former president - nobody in America is above the law.” Kinzinger noted the influence that he, along with the other members of the Jan. 6 committee, have on how this period of American history is remembered.
“Probably a significant amount of people believe that Antifa or the FBI had something to do with January 6th,” Kinzinger expressed. “It’s been a year and we haven’t had any real, in essence, detailed accountability for what led to that. The history books, who knows what they’re going to say because who will control the narrative?”
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The Illinois congressman also noted he is hopeful that the Jan. 6 committee will get access to White House records to which former President Trump has tried to block access. Earlier this month a federal appeals court ruled that the records can be released. Trump is expected to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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At the same time, yet another example of a Jan. 6 committee member misportraying a text message sent to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows emerged on Friday. Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, incorrectly described on Tuesday a message to Meadows describing a strategy to overturn the results of the 2020 election as coming from a House lawmaker. Anonymous sources told CNN that it was, as the news outlet put it, "an inadvertent error," and a "Raskin source said the congressman learned of the error this week from CNN and confirmed the mistake with staff."
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Raskin wrote a letter to correct the Congressional Record, according to the report, which noted the Jan. 6 panel declined to comment on the actual author of the text.
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Raskin cited the text message during debate on holding Meadows in contempt of Congress after he stopped cooperating last week with the panel's investigation into the Capitol riot. "HERE's an AGGRESSIVE STRATEGY: Why can t (sic) the states of GA NC PENN and other R controlled statehouses declare this is BS (where conflicts and election not called that night) and just send their own electors to vote and have it go to the SCOTUS," the message said.
The CNN report claimed members of the Jan. 6 panel believe the author is Trump Energy Secretary Rick Perry, who was also the former Texas governor, but a spokesman for him denied the text was his.
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