The Kinzinger Report
Adam Kinzinger, former U.S. Congressman and Air Force veteran, delivers straightforward analysis of the week's biggest political stories. The podcast offers honest, no-spin commentary on the people, decisions, and moments shaping America.
Episodes
Partying 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 stealing $15 million from a Chicago hospital. One of them donated $190,000 to Paxton’s campaigns. Adam breaks down the video, the Texas attorney general’s donor problem, and why none of this is new. Also: Republicans push back on Pete Hegseth’
Putin’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 2022 law Congress passed, Thom Tillis and Mike Pence pushing back, and why it hands Putin a lifeline. Plus Ukraine’s drone strikes on Yandex data centers and Russia’s bot farms, a federal judge pulling Trump’s taxpayer-funded ads, a Politic
Raking 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 research grants, including 2,500 NIH grants, and American scientists are fleeing overseas. Meanwhile, Trump has traded $3.2 billion in stocks and bonds since taking office, nearly three times the entire Congress. Also: Jon Ossoff and Abdul El-
Honey, 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,” according to hundreds of messages obtained by the Wall Street Journal. Adam Kinzinger breaks down the access-for-cash scheme, the million-dollar offer, and why she wanted the whole thing moved to Signal. Plus, Trump midterm chiefs Chris LaCivi
When 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. One hacked a Florida election system twice and was sent to monitor a polling place in Minneapolis. Another was pulled off a murder case for reading privileged defense communications. A new senior counsel called January 6th a false flag
Deny, 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 quarantine while Moscow insists it's pneumonia. Adam Kinzinger breaks down what we know, why the WHO is the only channel left, and why Trump sounds a lot friendlier about this outbreak than he ever did about COVID. Plus: Trump retreats o
Republicans 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 double digits. Conor Lamb fills in for Adam Kinzinger on why the GOP's "vote for the team" strategy is cracking. Plus: more leaked Ken Paxton audio, Trump doxxing Senator Tom Cotton, The Atlantic's report on Kash Patel and the FBI
"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 Insurrection Act actually is, why federal law bans troops at polling places, and why a losing president five weeks out is talking about the military at all. Also today: the Justice Department reopens Watergate to review Richard Nixon
Rescue 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 AP poll puts his approval at 30 percent and his economic approval at a record low 26 percent. Two thirds of Americans say Trump's policies are driving higher prices. Adam Kinzinger explains why the 2026 midterms have turned into a rescue
Caught 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 whole GOP ticket. The tape went to the New York Times, Paxton's campaign is calling it manipulated, and James Talarico leads every independent poll in the Texas Senate race while Paxton dodges a Fox News debate.Plus, Republicans hype a
A 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 Lake's case, walks away from the DOJ probe into Obama officials. Fourteen months, three lead prosecutors, zero indictments. Adam Kinzinger explains why this was never a real investigation. Also on the show, FBI deputy director Andre
Walking 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 dollars a gallon in the middle of harvest, and farm bankruptcies tripled in Iowa. One superfan who followed Trump in an RV for years now calls him a fraud. Adam Kinzinger explains what the MAGA defection means for the midterms. Plus: tax
Follow 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 45 billion dollars. Meanwhile new reporting shows ICE arrests are surging, spread out across the country and away from the cameras after the January backlash. Plus, Trump hosts Xi Jinping at the White House, the West Wing lets GOP candidates
You 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 restore their press passes. Reporters were still turned away at the White House gates the next morning. Plus: Trump invites Putin to the G20 at his golf club, MAGA podcasters stop talking about Trump, F-35 parts turn up in China, and Cook Pol
Right 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 requirements, expired health insurance subsidies, and rural hospital cuts are landing hardest in Trump country. Plus Trump's UN speech falls flat, Sen. John Curtis wants Don Jr. subpoenaed, the GOP spends big to defend safe seats, and JD
Caught 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 funneled $150,000 to her Super PAC through a shell company and then gave the FBI a road map naming more than a dozen members of Congress. Trump fired the agents working the case, including one targeted for investigating his 2020 electi
The 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. Tariff exemptions, confidentiality clauses, and bestsellers carved out of the discounts entirely. RFK Jr. signed the deals, and now his Make America Healthy Again movement is holding a summit funded by corporate money. Plus: Republicans in Co
Pulling 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 federal agents in Minneapolis, and the administration chose to lose its nominee instead of handing them over. As a result, ICE stays in the hands of an unconfirmed acting director. Plus: RFK Jr. speaks at an anti-vax conference as the Pennsylvani
Begging 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 can't ask for forgiveness while insisting nothing is wrong. Plus, Republican candidates like Maria Salazar run away from Trump, the Federal Reserve raises interest rates over Trump's objections, House Republicans fight behind closed
The 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 by missile strikes, and $38 billion spent. Now Republicans are breaking ranks. Thomas Massie filed articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and seven Republicans voted with Democrats to end the war. Adam also cover
The 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 new scheme: federal immigration officers pulled off their jobs to hunt for noncitizens on state voter rolls. Plus, Trump calls AI safety warnings a hoax as industry leaders beg for regulation, Iran-backed Houthis seize a second oil chokepo
Brought 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 paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for the private island and fireworks. Adam reports from his trip to Ukraine, where a Russian drone hit a passenger train on the route he'd just avoided. Plus, 60 Minutes catches Trump allies s
He 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 evidence are an ethical problem. Today's show breaks down why Trump's revenge probe keeps losing its own prosecutors. Plus, Republican election officials ask the Supreme Court to keep Trump's mail ballot order blocked, the
Rigging 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 people here legally, and drop the race and ethnicity questions asked since 1790. The census decides House seats, electoral votes, and federal funding, and the Fourteenth Amendment says to count every person. Plus: Trump promises a $5,000 "Tr
The 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 until September 13th, and on the day of the attacks he called a news station to brag that his building was now the tallest in downtown Manhattan. Adam Kinzinger breaks down the lie, plus the GOP convention Republicans are skipping, Canada
The 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 billions in DHS contracts, then offered his services to Qatar and the UAE on the side. Adam breaks down the shadow secretary scandal and the criminal referral now on the table. Plus: the White House marks Labor Day with AI videos that contai
Workers 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 bargaining to firing career employees without due process. Then the 2026 midterm map, Democrats' path to the Senate, ICE at the polls, and what Adam learned running for Congress that every first time candidate needs to hear.Go deeper at
A 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 down how she finally lost her job, and why Trump calling her "a true warrior" says it all. Plus: the DOJ fires the prosecutor who wanted to hold an ICE agent accountable for shooting a man in Minneapolis, the Missouri Supreme Court
The 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 answer, with swing-district Republicans leading the exodus sixty days before the 2026 midterms. Adam Kinzinger breaks down what it means for the election, plus DHS agents hunting voter fraud that doesn't exist, a whistleblower's
Nobody'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, 71 percent of Americans disapprove of his handling of the cost of living, and Democrats now lead on the economy for the first time in a decade. Adam breaks down the polls Trump calls "Demoralization Operations." Plus: Pete Hegseth
The 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 has fired, and military chiefs are warning that the Iran war is unsustainable. The Army now has no Senate-confirmed civilian leader or top general. Plus, a USPS whistleblower says Trump's mail ballot system was built to fail ahead of the m
They'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 costs, and the trade war with Canada, and Republicans like Senator Kevin Cramer now fear a 2006-style midterm wipeout. Plus: fired three-star admiral Nancy Lacore runs as a Democrat in South Carolina, DHS gets caught using a 1930 customs la
The 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 at the Justice Department doubt the referral would survive in court, and nobody wants to prosecute. Plus: Trump signs an executive order renaming Lake Ontario "Lake America," the Iran war hits six months with 18 Americans dead and
The 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 Democrat scam, a JD Vance fundraising text told donors the truth, internal polling shows the issue could sink Republicans in the midterms, and Congress is now scrambling for a last-minute stimulus. Plus: ICE arrests surge for people with no cri
Not 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 60-day election window opens. Adam breaks down what the ruling means for the midterms. Also on today's show: a Trump-endorsed Kentucky candidate scrubs Trump from his website after a bad poll, MAGA influencer DataRepublican is ex
Who 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 says ballots should be handled like replica explosives. Adam breaks down what the order does, what the dissent warned, and what it means for the 2026 midterms. Plus: the US-Canada trade war and Trump's plan to rename Lake Ontario, Ame
Election 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 2024 foreign election interference report that federal law required to be public over a year ago. Also on today's show: Trump's June financial disclosure reveals more than 1,000 stock trades, including Boeing and SpaceX purcha
He 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, contradicted by Republican election officials, and debunked by DHS's own staff in Nevada. Also on today's show: the USS Doris Miller renaming controversy, the House Judiciary report on Trump's 1.7 billion dollar pardon giveaway
Who'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 is to nominate Heidi Overton, a White House loyalist with no management experience, to run an FDA that's lost a fifth of its staff. Adam also covers the Moderna-Merck mRNA cancer vaccine breakthrough that RFK Jr.'s research cuts p
The 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 primary, and a Democrat flipped a Pennsylvania seat Trump carried by 18 points. Adam covers what it means for November, plus Darline Graham's Senate debate disaster, the court ruling unsealing Ghislaine Maxwell's Epstein files, the fa
The 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 map, and the official White House statement attacking her children. Plus: Attorney General Todd Blanche creates a new path for convicted felons to get their guns back, Trump votes by mail in Florida after years of calling it fraud, Pet
A 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, and court records show the unit took credit for cases charged before it even existed. Adam breaks it all down, plus a Trump-appointed regulator approving a bank charter for the Trump family's crypto company World Liberty Financial,
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 Kennedy Center board voting to close the building and rename it for Trump while a judge has already ruled that unlawful, the USS Abraham Lincoln crisis with 250 days at sea and Pete Hegseth dismissing the families' warnings, DHS s
Thou 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 today: a Wall Street Journal exclusive on Ukrainian drones destroying a U.S. armored brigade during the Combined Resolve exercise, Pete Hegseth shutting Democrats out of Pentagon briefings on the $1.5 trillion defense budget, the record-bre
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 conspiracy theorist's plan to declare an election emergency and seize control of the midterms, the White House pressuring prosecutors to revive the Reflecting Pool case against Olympian David Hearn after a judge already threw it out, Trea
He 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 and rejected the entire 15-point plan, handing Trump a public embarrassment from the one ally he was sure was on his side. Adam breaks down why it happened and what it says about how Trump misunderstands foreign policy, plus Trump already sour
Busted 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, ruling that he needs congressional approval and can't use what the court called executive self-help. Adam breaks down that ruling and what it means for the fight over Trump's overreach, plus Democrat James Talarico surging ahead of K
They 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 David blowup with Hegseth, Trump naming JD Vance his successor for 2028, the MAGA defections led by Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene, two losses for RFK Jr. and the MAHA movement as the FDA approves an mRNA flu vaccine, a stunnin
Central Casting | Trump's Pentagon Picks Generals for Their Looks — August 5, 2026
Adam Kinzinger breaks down NBC News reporting that the Pentagon is drafting a new nuclear weapons strategy for a possible war with China or Russia, one that embraces tactical nukes, while Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's pick to lead the Army gets blocked by Senate Republicans. Plus Max Miller's disastrous CNN interview with Jake Tapper, Kansas and Missouri voters rejecting GOP power grabs
Intentional Discrimination | A Federal Judge Blocks Trump's Attack on New Citizens' Voting Rights — August 4, 2026
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration's ban on voter registration help for newly naturalized citizens, ruling it was motivated by intentional discrimination. Adam breaks down the ruling and what it means for voting rights. Plus: RFK Jr. and Rand Paul turn the Fauci circus into a book-selling operation, Senator Bernie Moreno says Max Miller is unfit to serve as Trump looks the other
Backfire | Capital One Cites Money Laundering in Trump Account Closures — August 3, 2026
Capital One told a federal court it closed hundreds of Trump Organization accounts for anti-money laundering reasons. The bank never said why until Trump sued them for debanking, and his own lawsuit forced the answer into the open. Adam breaks down the court filing, plus Senators Cornyn and Tillis caving to confirm Todd Blanche as Attorney General, RFK Jr.'s meltdown with Dana Bash on CNN, Tru
Shakedown | Inside Trump's $800 Million Money Machine — July 31, 2026
The Wall Street Journal exposes Donald Trump's $800 million fundraising operation, where his personal fundraiser tells corporate executives "the boss wants this money" and companies believe donations buy access to the White House. Adam Kinzinger breaks down the shakedown, plus the Commerce Department taking equity stakes in seven more private companies, Trump walking back Ukraine's
Major Setback | GOP Holdouts Pull the Vote on Trump's Attorney General — July 30, 2026
Todd Blanche's confirmation vote for Attorney General was pulled after Republican Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis demanded written assurances about the Trump-IRS settlement that shields the President's family from tax audits. Plus: Senate Republicans turn the Fauci COVID hearing into a spectacle, Alex Jones demands Trump's impeachment over the Iran war, Elon Musk brings back Ameri
Broken Promise | Trump Ends the Medicare Program Holding Down Costs — July 29, 2026
Medicare drug premiums are going up in 2027. The Trump administration is ending the Part D subsidy that held them down, and Dr. Oz is calling it the end of a bailout. Adam runs the real numbers for 25 million seniors. Also in this episode: Trump at Lindsey Graham's National Cathedral funeral, the Senate Russia sanctions vote, Jay Clayton's party-line confirmation as DNI, and the leaked GOP
Underwater | Trump's Political Operatives Tell GOP Candidates to Keep Their Distance — July 28, 2026
With the 2026 midterms under 100 days out, Trump's own political operation is telling Republican candidates to keep their distance from him. Adam breaks down why the people running these campaigns already know they're in trouble, and why Speaker Mike Johnson is counting on prayer warriors at the Capitol instead. Also: new abuse allegations against Ohio Rep. Max Miller and the Republican si
Awkward Silence | Trump Embarrassed at the Correspondents' Dinner — July 27, 2026
Trump attended the rescheduled White House Correspondents' Dinner and bombed, rambling for an hour, insulting reporters by name, and mocking CNN's Kaitlan Collins. Then he watched Wall Street Journal reporters win the Katharine Graham Award for the Epstein birthday letter story he's suing them over. Also: fired 60 Minutes correspondent Cecilia Vega says CBS pressured her to report thin
Never Vance | The MAGA Revolt Against Trump's Own VP — July 24, 2026
The 2028 fight has already started. Terry Virts, filling in for Adam Kinzinger, covers the "Never Vance" campaign against Vice President JD Vance, the online revolt inside MAGA, and what it means for the race to succeed Trump. Also in this episode: the DOJ backs down on its New York Times reporter subpoenas after a judge threatens to quash them, new tariffs take effect on 80+ countries cov
Running on Empty | Officials Flee Trump at a Record Pace — July 23, 2026
Senior officials are leaving the Trump administration faster than under any modern president, and Trump is replacing them with acting officials who skip Senate confirmation entirely. Adam Kinzinger explains why that loophole matters. Also on today's show: $13 billion in missing Venezuelan oil revenue, the US-Saudi nuclear agreement and the Trump family's Saudi money, the dignified transfer
Special Episode: Introducing Astronaut Terry Virts — July 23, 2026
Adam sits down with astronaut and former ISS commander Terry Virts, who'll be filling in on the daily show when Adam's on the road. They talk about his run for office in Texas, his passion for Ukraine, and the open corruption of this administration.Go deeper at AdamKinzinger.com
No Answers | Pete Hegseth's Brutal Day in the Senate — July 22, 2026
Adam Kinzinger breaks down Pete Hegseth's disastrous Senate hearing on Iran war funding, where senators from both parties demanded answers on the $67 billion request and got none. Then: Republican midterm panic and the $530 million "hate election" plan, Trump's push to make FIFA president Gianni Infantino the UN Secretary-General, the court order opening Trump's financial recor
Follow the Lettuce | The Trump Donor at the Center of a Nationwide Parasite Outbreak — July 21, 2026
The worst cyclospora outbreak on record is spreading, and the lettuce supplier at the center of it, Taylor Farms, gave a million dollars to a pro-Trump super PAC and met with the White House days before the FDA reversed its only positive test. Adam also covers the 50 percent Canada tariff, Kash Patel's Russia trip hosted by the FSB, the Justice Department subpoenaing reporters' relatives o
Change the Subject | The Speech Republicans Are Pretending Never Happened — July 20, 2026
Adam Kinzinger breaks down the Republican backlash to Trump's primetime address on the 2020 election. His own party wanted a midterms message, Fox and Friends went three hours without mentioning the speech, and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is now threatening to prosecute state election officials. Adam also covers the three US soldiers who died at the hands of Iran this weekend
The Big Lie Is Still a Lie | Trump's Primetime Election Speech Falls Apart — July 17, 2026
Trump went on primetime TV claiming China stole the 2020 election, but the declassified documents he released prove him wrong. Adam breaks down what the intelligence actually says. Plus, the White House teleprompter operator caught betting on Trump's speeches on Kalshi, Trump Media selling Wall Street early access to Truth Social posts, the Washington Post debunking Trump's Reflecting Pool
The Slip | Trump's Personal Lawyer Auditions for Attorney General and Tells On Himself — July 16, 2026
Todd Blanche, Donald Trump's former personal defense lawyer, faced the Senate Judiciary Committee at his confirmation hearing to become Attorney General. He dodged questions on DOJ independence, the January 6th pardons, and investigations of Trump's enemies, then slipped on one unguarded question that revealed who he really works for. Adam also covers Jay Clayton, Trump's Director of N
Keep Those Crime Stats Coming | Trump Orders ICE Traffic Stops to Resume After Two Deaths — July 15, 2026
Trump overrules his own administration and orders ICE to resume traffic stops just one day after the agency suspended them over two fatal shootings in Maine and Texas. Adam breaks down Trump's Truth Social post, the deaths of two men who weren't even targets, and what "keep those crime stats coming" says about this president. Plus: a judge reveals ICE has 11,000 pages on putting ag
The Slush Fund Is Dead | A Federal Judge Torches Trump's IRS Deal — July 14, 2026
A federal judge just nullified Donald Trump's $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund, ruling his IRS lawsuit was brought for an improper purpose and sanctioning his lawyers days before Todd Blanche's Attorney General confirmation hearing. Adam Kinzinger breaks down the ruling, plus ICE suspending vehicle stops after two deadly shootings in Maine and Houston, Trump's plan to rel
No Line He Won't Cross | Trump Uses Lindsey Graham's Death to Push the SAVE Act — July 13, 2026
Adam Kinzinger remembers Senator Lindsey Graham, then breaks down how Donald Trump marked his friend's death: by going on Meet the Press within hours and turning it into a pitch for the SAVE America Act, his stalled voting bill. Also on today's show: the Justice Department subpoenas four New York Times reporters over the Air Force One story, Iran declares the Strait of Hormuz closed as Tru
Platner Drops Out | Trump Casts Doubt on the Woman Who Accused Him — July 9, 2026
On today's Kinzinger Report: Graham Platner is out of the Maine Senate race after a sexual assault accusation, and when Trump was asked about it, he didn't go after the Democrats. He went after the woman. Adam breaks down why he does this every single time in today's show. He also gets into why Trump refused to board his brand new Qatar-gifted Air Force One after the NATO summit, the P
Back to War | Trump's Iran Ceasefire Collapses — July 8, 2026
The ceasefire Trump spent all summer bragging about is dead. Adam Kinzinger breaks down the overnight US strikes on Iran, the spike in oil prices Americans will feel at the pump, and a NATO summit where the President demanded Greenland, cut off trade with Spain, and confused Zelensky with Putin in front of the world. Plus some actual good news: courts protected your vote twice in one day, even wit
Trump Loses in Court Again | Judge Orders Legal Immigration Applications to Restart — July 7, 2026
Adam Kinzinger breaks down a federal judge's order forcing the Trump administration to unfreeze green card and work permit applications for immigrants who are already here legally, and why the ruling exposes the "legal immigration" talking point. Plus: Trump's oldest friend Peter Ticktin pushes a national emergency plan to take federal control of the midterm elections, Kevin McCart
Reclaim America? | White Nationalists March on DC and Trump's Cabinet Won't Condemn It — July 6, 2026
Hundreds of masked members of the white nationalist group Patriot Front marched through Washington on July 4th, and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum wouldn't condemn them when asked directly. Adam breaks down the photo that defined the weekend, Trump overruling safety officials before falling asleep at his own fireworks, the President's communism rhetoric while his government owns a stake in
The Promise Is Still Ours | A Fourth of July Message — July 3, 2026
Adam Kinzinger spends a few minutes on the Fourth of July, 250 years after the Declaration was signed, and why he still thinks the promise is worth keeping. The regular show is back Monday. Happy Fourth.Go deeper at AdamKinzinger.com
Cashing In | Trump's $1.4B Crypto Windfall — July 1, 2026
Trump's new financial disclosure runs 927 pages and shows he pulled in at least $1.4 billion from crypto in his first year back in office, most of it from a meme coin with his own face on it. Adam breaks down what it means for a sitting president to profit this openly from the office he holds. Plus: House Republicans tank the defense bill and leave town early for the Fourth, freezing a troop p
The Constitution Holds | SCOTUS Strikes Down Trump's Bid to End Birthright Citizenship — June 30, 2026
The Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship, striking down Trump's executive order in a 6-3 ruling. Plus: Trump calls the bipartisan housing bill a "big yawn" while building a $500 million White House ballroom, a plan to issue 250 pardons for America's 250th birthday, confusion over US-Iran talks in Qatar and Trump's demand for $2.50 gas, and a federal judge calling the Ga
Trump Loses at the Supreme Court | Mail Ballots and the Carroll Verdict — June 29, 2026
Donald Trump had a rough morning at the Supreme Court. In a 5-4 ruling written by his own appointee Amy Coney Barrett, the justices upheld Mississippi's grace period for mail ballots postmarked by Election Day, rejecting a challenge brought by the RNC and backed by Trump's Justice Department. The same morning, the Court refused to hear his appeal in the E. Jean Carroll case, leaving the ju
The TPS Ruling | Supreme Court Clears the Way for Mass Deportations — June 26, 2026
The Supreme Court just stripped legal status from roughly 350,000 Haitians and thousands of Syrians who came here the legal way — registered, passed background checks, paid their fees — and cleared the way to deport them to a country our own State Department says is too dangerous to visit. We break down the 6-3 ruling, Stephen Miller's reaction, and why even Republican governors like Mike DeWi
Fall in Line | Trump's Capitol Hill Shouting Match — June 25, 2026
The President went to Capitol Hill for a show of unity and turned it into a shouting match, spending most of a private lunch railing against the Republicans in his own party. When Senator Bill Cassidy stood up to push back, Trump told him to sit down — and by midnight, Cassidy had folded and voted exactly the way the President wanted.Adam also breaks down Trump admitting on camera that he leaned o
Held Hostage | Trump Won't Sign Landmark Housing Bill — June 24, 2026
In a rare case of bipartisanship, Republicans and Democrats passed the biggest housing bill in 30 years. Then, hours before signing it, Trump torched the whole thing, refusing to put his name on it until Congress passes a voter bill aimed at fraud that doesn't exist. We get into how the President is holding struggling families hostage over a lie. Plus: the Senate's historic rebuke of the I
Losing Streak | The Courts Hand Trump Two Big Losses in One Day - June 23, 2026
The courts had a big day yesterday, and it did not go the administration's way. A George W. Bush appointee threw out the DOJ's grand jury subpoenas against Tim Walz, Jacob Frey, and other Minnesota officials, calling it a blatantly unlawful use of the grand-jury process. Hours later, a D.C. judge struck down the administration's expanded SAVE database after it flagged natural-born citi
Who Is She? | Trump's Weird Post Raises New Questions About His Mental Acuity - June 22, 2026
On the eve of Father's Day, the President posted a tribute to his "great daughter" — and the woman in the photo was a stranger. Adam digs into what that moment says about the President's mental decline, his late-night posting, and why the people around him won't say what they're seeing.Plus: a Washington Post investigation suggests Tulsi Gabbard spent years following the sc
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