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The Kinzinger Report
Adam Kinzinger — former U.S. Congressman and Air Force veteran — breaks down the day's biggest stories with the clarity and candor Washington doesn't always welcome. No spin. Just honest analysis of the people, decisions, and moments shaping America.
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Episodes
The Kinzinger ReportThe Bubble Is About to Burst | Right-Wing Media Says MAGA Has Lost Touch With Normal People — October 29, 2026
The Washington Examiner, a conservative outlet, says the MAGA bubble is about to burst. Adam Kinzinger breaks down the piece and why right-wing media turning…
The Kinzinger ReportThe Revenge Campaign Keeps Losing | Grand Jury Rejects Hutchinson Indictment — October 28, 2026
A federal grand jury has refused to indict Cassidy Hutchinson. Trump’s Justice Department wanted to charge the January 6th witness with lying to Congress over…
The Kinzinger ReportThe Seashells Weren’t Enough | Trump’s Justice Department Files Its Third Comey Case — October 27, 2026
The Trump Justice Department charges James Comey for the third time, over a 2016 leak that Trump’s own DOJ investigated twice and declined to prosecute. With…
The Kinzinger ReportTrump’s Worst Nightmare | Obama Is Back on the Trail and Not Holding Back — October 26, 2026
Barack Obama is back on the campaign trail, rallying in Cleveland for Amy Acton and Sherrod Brown and going after Donald Trump on the grift, the war, and his…
The Kinzinger ReportThe $2 Billion Revelation | New Allegations About Jared Kushner's Foreign Financial Ties — October 23, 2026
Jared Kushner faces new allegations involving foreign money, secret bank accounts, and his role in Trump's Middle East policy. Adam Kinzinger breaks down the…
The Kinzinger ReportThe Deal Doesn’t Add Up | Trump’s Venezuela Oil Numbers Versus The Actual Contract — October 22, 2026
ProPublica obtained the secret contract behind Trump’s Venezuela oil deal, and it doesn’t match his claims of hundreds of billions in revenue. The U.S. bought…
The Kinzinger ReportWhat a Coincidence | Trump’s Ex-Lawyer Collected $50 Million From a Billionaire Who Needed a Pardon — October 21, 2026
Alina Habba, Trump’s former personal lawyer, took a $50 million job from the family of Venezuelan billionaire Julio Herrera Velutini while she was still acting…
The Kinzinger ReportElection Integrity, MAGA Style | Trump’s Team Wanted a Voting Machine Hacked — October 20, 2026
ProPublica reports Trump’s DHS appointees asked CISA, the federal election security agency, to secretly buy a voting machine, hack it, hide the results from…
The Kinzinger ReportAnother Lifeline for Putin | Trump Waives Russia Sanctions as Moscow Calls It a Historic Moment — October 19, 2026
Trump waives the Russia sanctions law Congress passed 86 to 11 and he signed himself, then blames Zelensky for the war and praises Russia for cheap diesel…
The Kinzinger ReportPulling the Plug | Trump Reverses Hegseth on Livestreaming an Execution — October 16, 2026
Trump cancels Pete Hegseth’s plan to livestream the Fort Hood firing squad execution after bipartisan backlash, but says it still would have been a strong…
The Kinzinger ReportWhere’s Bo Hines? | The White House Crypto Adviser Who Was on the Industry’s Payroll — October 15, 2026
The Wall Street Journal reveals that Trump’s White House crypto adviser Bo Hines kept a stake in a consulting firm that was paid $415,000 a month by Tether…
The Kinzinger ReportHiding the Numbers | White House Buries Report on Impact of GOP Tax Law — October 14, 2026
The IRS report showing who actually got a break from the Republican tax cut was due in July. It’s October 14th and the Treasury Department still hasn’t…
The Kinzinger ReportPartying With Fugitives | Ken Paxton’s Dubai New Year’s Eve Video Exposed — October 13, 2026
The Wall Street Journal has video of Ken Paxton, the Republican nominee for Senate in Texas, at a Dubai New Year’s Eve party with two fugitives indicted for…
The Kinzinger ReportPutin’s Lifeline | Trump’s Illegal Russian Diesel Deal Sparks a Senate Revolt — October 12, 2026
Trump lifts Russia sanctions to buy diesel from Putin, and senators from both parties say it’s illegal. Adam Kinzinger breaks down the Russian energy deal, the…
The Kinzinger ReportRaking In The Dividends | Trump’s “Golden Age” Of Science Is Really About His Portfolio — October 9, 2026
Trump handed out National Medals of Science to Big Tech CEOs and declared a “Golden Age” of American innovation. His administration has canceled billions in…
The Kinzinger ReportHoney, Please | Leaked Texts Expose Corruption Inside Trump’s Administration — October 8, 2026
Kimberly Guilfoyle, Trump’s ambassador to Greece, texted a donor asking him to wire $100,000 to her American Express account so it “won’t show up anywhere,”…
The Kinzinger ReportWhen Loyalty Is the Qualification | The Criminals and Conspiracy Theorists Now Working at the DOJ — October 7, 2026
The Justice Department's civil rights division has lost more than 300 career lawyers under Trump, and the New York Times just revealed who's replacing them…
The Kinzinger ReportDeny, Deny, Deny | Russia Hides a Deadly Outbreak While Trump Takes Putin's Word — October 6, 2026
A plague outbreak in Russia, and the Kremlin wants everyone to stop asking. One lab worker is dead, a second death is reported, and nearly 200 contacts are in…
The Kinzinger ReportRepublicans Abandon Trump | Red-State GOP Leaders Back Democrats as Polls Collapse in Trump Country — October 5, 2026
Dozens of Republicans are endorsing Democratic candidates ahead of the 2026 midterms, and new polls show Democrats competitive in red states Trump won by…
The Kinzinger Report"We'll See" | Trump Won't Rule Out Troops at the Polls — October 2, 2026
Trump told TIME he won't rule out invoking the Insurrection Act or declaring a state of emergency around the 2026 midterms. Adam Kinzinger breaks down what the…
The Kinzinger ReportRescue Mission | Trump Spends Final Month Defending Red States As Approval Hits 30 Percent — October 1, 2026
Trump is spending the final month before the midterms campaigning in Texas, Oklahoma, Iowa and Alabama, some of the reddest states in the country, while a new…
The Kinzinger ReportCaught on Tape | Ken Paxton Privately Admits Trump Is Sinking His Campaign — September 30, 2026
Ken Paxton was secretly recorded at a private Washington fundraiser admitting Trump's Republican convention in Dallas dropped his poll numbers and hurt the…
The Kinzinger ReportA Scam From the Beginning | Trump's Grand Conspiracy Probe Loses Top Prosecutor — September 29, 2026
Trump's grand conspiracy investigation loses a second prosecutor in a month. Kurt Olsen, the election denier sanctioned in Arizona for false statements in Kari…
The Kinzinger ReportWalking Away | Farmers and Superfans Abandon Trump Before the Midterms — September 28, 2026
Farmers, truckers, and Trump's own rally superfans are turning on him. Soybean prices collapsed after China stopped buying, diesel hit a record six and a half…
The Kinzinger ReportFollow the Money | Government Watchdog Finds ICE Wasted Millions on Detention Nobody Used — September 25, 2026
A government watchdog says ICE wasted tens of millions on detention space it never used, including tents and empty warehouses, after Congress gave the agency…
The Kinzinger ReportYou Can't Do This | A Trump-Appointed Judge Orders the White House to Restore Press Passes — September 24, 2026
A Trump-appointed federal judge blocked Trump's press ban on CNN, MS NOW, and Politico, ruling it likely unconstitutional and ordering the White House to…
The Kinzinger ReportRight Before They Vote | Trump's Big Beautiful Bill Starts Hurting His Own Voters — September 23, 2026
Republicans timed the One Big Beautiful Bill's Medicaid and SNAP cuts to land after the 2026 midterms. They're hitting early instead. Food stamp work…
The Kinzinger ReportCaught in the Act | The Susan Collins Bribery Scheme and the Case Trump Killed — September 22, 2026
Trump killed the FBI's bribery investigation into Congress. ProPublica reports the case ran through Susan Collins' office, built on a defense contractor who…
The Kinzinger ReportThe Fine Print | Trump's Drug Pricing Deals Exposed — September 21, 2026
Trump's secret drug pricing contracts are finally public, and they show the deals protected the pharmaceutical companies instead of lowering drug prices…
The Kinzinger ReportPulling the Plug | Republicans Sink Trump's ICE Pick — September 18, 2026
The White House pulls its nominee to run ICE after Republican opposition in the Senate. Rand Paul wanted DHS files on the two American citizens killed by…
The Kinzinger ReportBegging for Mercy | Vance's Desperate Closing Message for the Midterms — September 17, 2026
JD Vance gives the Republican closing message for the 2026 midterms, and it amounts to begging voters for another chance. Adam breaks down why the White House…
The Kinzinger ReportThe Revolt Begins | Republicans Start Breaking With Trump Over the Iran War — September 16, 2026
The Pentagon's inspector general and the Congressional Budget Office just revealed the true cost of the Iran war: dozens of aircraft destroyed, bases hammered…
The Kinzinger ReportThe Final Blow | The Supreme Court Ends the War on Mail-In Ballots — September 15, 2026
The Supreme Court rejects the Trump administration's attempt to rewrite mail-in voting rules weeks before the midterms, and a whistleblower report reveals a…
The Kinzinger ReportBrought to You by Russia | Putin's Inner Circle Paid for Don Jr.'s Wedding — September 14, 2026
A ProPublica investigation reveals Donald Trump Jr.'s Bahamas wedding was bankrolled by Umar Kremlev, a Russian oligarch in Vladimir Putin's inner circle who…
The Kinzinger ReportHe Quit | The Man Running Trump's Revenge Probe Walks Away — September 11, 2026
Joe diGenova has resigned from the Justice Department's grand conspiracy investigation into Trump's enemies, saying on his way out that indictments without…
The Kinzinger ReportRigging the Census | How Trump's New Plan Redraws Political Power — September 10, 2026
The Trump administration wants to change who counts in the 2030 census. A new Commerce Department proposal would exclude millions of immigrants, including…
The Kinzinger ReportThe 9/11 Lie | Trump Turns the 9/11 Anniversary Into a Story About Himself — September 9, 2026
Trump told a fake story about firefighters carrying him to safety at Ground Zero on 9/11, days before the 25th anniversary. There's no record he was there…
The Kinzinger ReportThe Shadow Secretary | The Unconfirmed Aide Who Ran DHS and Shopped It to Foreign Governments — September 8, 2026
The Wall Street Journal reports that Corey Lewandowski secretly ran Trump's Department of Homeland Security as an unpaid, unconfirmed adviser, controlling…
The Kinzinger ReportWorkers Organize Anyway | A Labor Day Reckoning With Trump's War on Unions — September 7, 2026
Adam Kinzinger marks Labor Day with a special episode on Trump's assault on organized labor, from stripping nearly a million federal workers of collective…
The Kinzinger ReportA True Warrior | Trump Salutes the Fox Anchor Fired for Serving Him — September 4, 2026
Fox News fired Maria Bartiromo after she leaked internal Fox guidance about Trump's 2020 election claims straight to the White House. Adam Kinzinger breaks…
The Kinzinger ReportThe Exodus Begins | Republicans Flee Trump's Midterm Convention — September 3, 2026
Republicans are skipping Trump's first-ever midterm convention in Dallas. Politico surveyed more than 70 GOP candidates and most are staying away or won't…
The Kinzinger ReportNobody's Buying It | Trump's Numbers Collapse and the GOP Blames Biden Again — September 2, 2026
Trump's approval rating just hit 33 percent, a record low for his second term and his worst numbers since January 6th. Republican approval is down 14 points…
The Kinzinger ReportThe Pentagon Revolts | Army Secretary Resigns as Military Chiefs Warn Hegseth on Iran — September 1, 2026
Adam Kinzinger breaks down the revolt inside the Pentagon. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll resigned after telling President Trump how many generals Pete Hegseth…
The Kinzinger ReportThey've Had Enough | Trump's Own Voters Revolt in Farm Country — August 31, 2026
Adam Kinzinger breaks down why Trump is losing farm country. Cattle ranchers and farmers are furious over tariff-free beef imports, soaring fuel and fertilizer…
The Kinzinger ReportThe Case That Wasn't | Rand Paul's Fauci Prosecution Stalls at the DOJ — August 28, 2026
Adam Kinzinger breaks down why the case against Anthony Fauci is falling apart. Rand Paul's committee held Fauci in contempt of Congress, but Trump officials…
The Kinzinger ReportThe Panic Begins | Republicans Race to Fix an Economy Trump Says Is Fine — August 27, 2026
Adam Kinzinger breaks down the White House's quiet admission that the affordability crisis is real. After a year of Trump calling high grocery prices a…
The Kinzinger ReportNot So Fast | Judges Throw Out the GOP's Plan to Flood the Airwaves — August 26, 2026
A federal appeals court just blocked the Republican plan to buy midterm TV ads at the discounted candidate rate, throwing out Trump's FCC guidance days before…
The Kinzinger ReportWho Gets a Ballot? | Supreme Court Lets Trump's Mail Voting Order Take Effect — August 25, 2026
The Supreme Court just cleared the way for Trump's executive order restricting mail voting, lifting a freeze that covered 23 states, while the Postal Service…
The Kinzinger ReportElection Integrity? | The DOJ's New Election Monitor Was Convicted of Hacking Elections — August 24, 2026
Adam Kinzinger breaks down the DOJ's apparent hire of a convicted election hacker into the office that polices voting rights, plus the White House sitting on…
The Kinzinger ReportHe Made It Up | Trump's Census Bureau Caught Manufacturing Voter Fraud — August 21, 2026
Trump got caught manufacturing his own voter fraud. Adam Kinzinger exposes the Census Bureau's anonymous 2020 election report, built by partisan operatives…
The Kinzinger ReportWho's Watching Your Food? | Trump Hollows Out the FDA as Recalls Hit the Highest Risk Level — August 20, 2026
A record food outbreak has sickened more than 11,000 Americans, the FDA just upgraded a frozen blueberry recall to Class One over E. coli, and Trump's answer…
The Kinzinger ReportThe Base Is Breaking | Republican Voters Hand Trump's Candidates a Brutal Night — August 19, 2026
Trump's handpicked candidates lost across the board last night. Catalina Lauf and Cory Mills went down in Florida, his pick for Wyoming governor lost her…
The Kinzinger ReportThe Meltdown | One Question About Trump's Aide Sends the White House Into a Rage — August 18, 2026
Adam Kinzinger breaks down Trump's Oval Office meltdown at CNN reporter Kristen Holmes after a question about aide Natalie Harp, the story Jon Ossoff put on…
The Kinzinger ReportA Fraud Unit Doing Fraud | Trump's Fraud Squad Caught Faking Its Own Numbers — August 17, 2026
The Wall Street Journal reports that Trump's fraud enforcement operation is falling apart. DOJ officials are accusing each other of faking prosecution numbers…
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This Isn't What They Signed Up For | The Crisis Aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln — August 14, 2026
The court tossed Trump's billion-dollar case against Harvard, and Adam explains why the antisemitism claim was a mask for a retaliation campaign. Also today…
The Kinzinger ReportThou Shall Not Lie | Karoline Leavitt Is Out, and the Names to Replace Her Are Worse — August 13, 2026
Trump's press secretary Karoline Leavitt is out, and Adam covers what her tenure really represented along with the troubling shortlist to replace her. Also…
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It's All Lies | New Details on Trump's Decoy Plane — August 12, 2026
The Air Force One decoy backlash keeps growing, and Trump's excuse under questioning fell apart on camera. Adam also covers Trump signaling openness to a…
The Kinzinger ReportHe Got Played | Netanyahu Rejects Trump's Gaza Peace Deal — August 10, 2026
Just over a week after Trump declared a historic breakthrough for peace in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood in front of his own cabinet…
The Kinzinger ReportBusted Ballroom | A Court Halts Trump's White House Ballroom
A federal appeals court just ordered Donald Trump to stop building his $400 million White House ballroom, the one he tore down the East Wing to make room for…
The Kinzinger ReportThey Booed a Fallen Cop | What a Name Now Means Inside MAGA — August 6, 2026
The missile shortage is real, the war in Iran has stalled because of it, and Trump's answer is to hunt down leakers and threaten prison. Adam covers the Camp…