In an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union with host Jake Tapper, one Republican Representative launched a fiery attack on the GOP’s equivalent of The Shining twins, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, as the two continue to spread baseless, dangerous lies regarding the coronavirus vaccine, going so far as to say to two GOP congresswoman are going to get “somebody killed.”
Illinois Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger spoke with Tapper on the CNN segment about the newest GOP talking point — heavy criticism of the Biden administration’s plan to go door to door to encourage people to get the life-saving and potentially pandemic-ending vaccination. The Illinois Republican became quickly aggravated over the topic.
“It’s absolute insanity,” Kinzinger fumed. “What President Biden said, and maybe he could have said it slightly different was, we’re willing to come to your house to give you the vaccine. At no point was anybody saying they’re going to break down your door and jam a vaccine in your arm despite your protest.”
“This is outrage politics that is being played by my party and it’s going to get Americans killed,” he continued to fume. “We are on a — our party has been hijacked. We can put out this outrageous stuff on Twitter, ‘yeah, I’m getting all these retweets and everybody knows me, I’m famous,’ but this plane is going to crash into the crowd.”
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“If you’re a Republican voter, do not listen to Marjorie Taylor Greene,” he went on to plead with members of his party. “The vaccine is safe, COVID is real, get vaccinated. Because if you are going to listen to the outrage, by the way, in March, she’s [Taylor Greene] was bragging about Donald Trump creating the vaccine and now she’s saying basically the vaccine is going to kill you.”
“I call on Leader [Kevin] McCarthy, I call on every leader in the Republican Party to stand up, say get vaccinated, and to call out these garbage politicians — these absolute clown politicians playing on your vaccine fears for their own selfish gain,” Kinzinger concluded.
You know it’s bad when your own party is warning people against you. These two need to do better before they genuinely do get someone killed.
You can watch the clip here:
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