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The Kinzinger Report

The Kinzinger Report

Adam Kinzinger 5 Episodes Aug 21, 2026

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

He Made It Up | Trump's Census Bureau Caught Manufacturing Voter Fraud — August 21, 2026
He Made It Up | Trump's Census Bureau Caught Manufacturing Voter Fraud — August 21, 2026 Aug 21, 2026 772 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
Who's Watching Your Food? | Trump Hollows Out the FDA as Recalls Hit the Highest Risk Level — August 20, 2026 Aug 20, 2026 823 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
The Base Is Breaking | Republican Voters Hand Trump's Candidates a Brutal Night — August 19, 2026 Aug 19, 2026 754 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
The Meltdown | One Question About Trump's Aide Sends the White House Into a Rage — August 18, 2026 Aug 18, 2026 890 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
A Fraud Unit Doing Fraud | Trump's Fraud Squad Caught Faking Its Own Numbers — August 17, 2026 Aug 17, 2026 979 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
This Isn't What They Signed Up For | The Crisis Aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln — August 14, 2026 Aug 15, 2026 795 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
Thou Shall Not Lie | Karoline Leavitt Is Out, and the Names to Replace Her Are Worse — August 13, 2026 Aug 13, 2026 754 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
It's All Lies | New Details on Trump's Decoy Plane — August 12, 2026 Aug 12, 2026 857 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
He Got Played | Netanyahu Rejects Trump's Gaza Peace Deal — August 10, 2026 Aug 10, 2026 781 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
Busted Ballroom | A Court Halts Trump's White House Ballroom Aug 7, 2026 772 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
They Booed a Fallen Cop | What a Name Now Means Inside MAGA — August 6, 2026 Aug 6, 2026 894 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
Central Casting | Trump's Pentagon Picks Generals for Their Looks — August 5, 2026 Aug 5, 2026 790 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

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