Rep. Adam Kinzinger: ‘We Impeach Presidents for High Crimes and Misdemeanors’
"We need actually grown up politics," Illinois Republican says
Rep. Adam Kinzinger is once again taking his party to task.
The Illinois Republican — only one of two to serve on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's select committee to investigate the events of January 6 Capitol insurrection — is now pushing back against those other Republicans pushing to impeach President Biden for his handling of the events in Afghanistan.
The Biden administration's overseen the evacuation of nearly 100,000 American and Afghan citizens in recent weeks due to Afghanistan falling, once again, under the rule of the brutal Taliban.
President Biden had ordered the final withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan earlier this year, following the peace agreement that the Trump administration set last year with the Taliban and after nearly 20 years of US occupation of the country.
More than a dozen US military service members — and 169 Afghan nationals —were killed Thursday in a terrorist attack outside of the airport in Afghanistan's capital city, Kabul
Fueled by heart-wrenching images of desperate Afghan nationals trying to flee the Taliban, commentators and Republicans have been hammering Biden for his policies related to Afghanistan.
This has included a number of Republicans, including Sen Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, calling for either for Biden's resignation or impeachment.
Kinzinger, who with Rep Liz Cheney of Wyoming, is just one of two House Republicans working with Democrats to probe the January 6 Capitol insurrection, is now speaking up to resist those calls.
“I do believe some people on [Biden's] national security team should resign. That’s up to them and it’s up to him,” Kinzinger said. “But look, we impeach presidents for high crimes and misdemeanors. This is a very bad decision. Other presidents have made bad decisions, but I’m not going to call on the president to resign for this, nor to be impeached.
“Look, we need some stability in our government and we’ve gotten to this back-and-forth where, you know, it’s just constant battle of power who can take over next year instead of looking that this country needs some real help. And we need actually grown up politics for once and not just kind of next-day, news-cycle politics,” the congressman added.
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