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
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
Empty Warehouses | ICE Abandons $700 Million Detention Center Plan - June 19, 2026
ICE spent $700 million on empty warehouses to lock people up — and now it's trying to give them back. Trump's brand new intelligence chief has zero experience, asked to take classified files home, and the White House already told CNN he's there to do whatever Trump wants. Trump's own government found no evidence of a stolen election, and now the White House is sitting on the report
Trump Signs the Iran Deal | And His Party Is Already Bailing — June 18, 2026
Trump signed his Iran deal at the Palace of Versailles, and he's calling it historic. The problem is, his own party isn't. Adam also gets into Georgia Republicans backing away from their own redistricting fight, new reporting on Trump's obsession with "taking" Greenland, a DOJ inspector general nominee who won't call January 6th an attack, and the leaked story of Jeff Bezos
Save the Receipts | Dems Probe Trump's Bid to Suspend Constitutional Rights — June 17, 2026
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are demanding answers about how close the White House came to suspending constitutional rights. It's a records request today, but they're laying the foundation for something bigger. Also on the show: JD Vance doing damage control on his own book tour, Trump holding intelligence powers hostage, confusion over the Iran deal, and Kash Patel's lat
Enemies List | Trump's DOJ Comes for Gavin Newsom — June 16, 2026
Gavin Newsom says he and his wife are under federal investigation, and the timing is hard to ignore — he's the Democrat most expected to run in 2028, and he joins a growing list of Trump rivals the Justice Department has gone after. Adam lays out what we know, what we don't, and why the burden is on the President to prove this is about the law and not a list. Plus: Trump's own CIA dire
The Art of the Deal | Trump's Iran Deal Is Worse Than the One He Tore Up — June 15, 2026
The US and Iran say they have a deal, and the war could be over by Friday — but the fine print tells a different story. Adam breaks down why the agreement Trump is about to sign looks a lot like the one he tore up in 2018, except this time it comes with billions for Tehran and the same unanswered question about Iran's nuclear program. Plus: the FBI raids a voter registration group in Ohio, new
Sounding the Alarm | The Iran War Comes for the World's Food Supply — June 12, 2026
Adam Kinzinger breaks down how the Iran war is coming for the global food supply, with fertilizer shortages set to spike grain prices and deepen world hunger. Plus: Elon Musk becomes the world's first trillionaire as SpaceX hits the Nasdaq, Trump calls off strikes on Iran while claiming a deal is nearly done, the Pentagon pulls a third of U.S. fighter jets out of Europe, and a UFC cage goes up
Going Dark | Trump Turmoil Could Kill a Critical Surveillance Tool — June 11, 2026
Adam breaks down the turmoil inside Trump's White House and the surveillance program set to expire Friday because of it. Also today: the Postal Service's new mail-in ballot rules, JD Vance's Epstein damage-control meeting revealed in a new book, Trump's plan to take Iran's oil, and fresh questions about the President's health.Go deeper at AdamKinzinger.com
Trading Fire | U.S. Strikes Iran and Tehran Hits Back — June 10, 2026
U.S. airstrikes hit Iran overnight and Tehran fired back at American bases as inflation climbed to a three-year high of 4.2%. Adam Kinzinger breaks down the Social Security trustees report moving insolvency up to 2032, a GOP congressman faking a phone call to dodge questions about benefit cuts, the $70 billion ICE funding bill passing the same day a report revealed 500 detained babies and toddlers
Escalation in the Strait | Trump Says Iran Shot Down a U.S. Helicopter — June 9, 2026
President Trump says Iran shot down a U.S. Army Apache near the Strait of Hormuz and that America will retaliate — and the two soldiers on board survived the first-ever rescue by an unmanned Navy drone boat. Plus: Trump booed and caught napping at the NBA Finals, Ken Paxton's impeachment lawyer endorses his Democratic opponent, Speaker Mike Johnson on cutting Social Security and Medicare, and
When the Questions Get Hard | Trump Walks Off NBC Interview — June 8, 2026
Trump sat down with NBC's Kristen Welker and walked off the set the moment she asked him to prove his election fraud claims. Adam Kinzinger breaks down the walkout, plus Israel striking Iran after Trump told Netanyahu to stand down, a federal prosecutor sent to Los Angeles as Trump-backed candidate Spencer Pratt loses ground, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche admitting the DOJ's job is
Fired for Telling the Truth | Trump's 8,000-Worker Purge — June 5, 2026
Adam Kinzinger breaks down Trump's new executive order stripping civil service protections from 8,000 senior federal workers. Plus: a new Lawfare study finds at least 97 pardoned January 6 defendants have been arrested or charged with new crimes, the flesh-eating screwworm reaches Texas for the first time since 1966, the Senate's all-nighter fails to kill the $1.8 billion "weaponizatio
The Blanche Loyalty Test | Trump's Lawyer Takes the DOJ — June 4, 2026
Trump is making his own defense lawyer, Todd Blanche, the permanent Attorney General. Adam Kinzinger breaks down what two months of loyalty bought at the DOJ, the House's historic 215-208 vote to end the Iran war, new Medicaid work requirements that could strip coverage from 5 million people, Spencer Pratt's stunning surge in the LA mayor's race, and how California's slow vote coun
The Cost of Telling the Truth | CBS Fires Scott Pelley — June 3, 2026
CBS fires 60 Minutes veteran Scott Pelley after he refuses to put falsehoods on air — and goes public on Bari Weiss. Plus: Trump's pick Randy Feenstra loses the Iowa governor primary, the Pentagon hires a convicted January 6th rioter for a top-secret counterterrorism job, Rep. Andy Ogles' Pride Month post draws fire from his own party, and a new assessment says the Iran war left its nuclea
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