Former GOP Rep Adam Kinzinger On Project 2025

On April 10, former Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger talked to Don Lemon about Project 2025, the sweeping plan for a second Trump presidency. Kinzinger said the plan for Trump’s second term is how “democracy falls apart.”

As the Washington Post reported, part of the Project 2025 plan is for Trump to “invoke the Insurrection Act on his first day in office to allow him to deploy the military against civil demonstrations.” The outlet noted that Project 2025 plans to use the U.S. Justice Department to punish Trump’s political enemies. According to the Post, the Justice Department will “investigate onetime officials and allies who have become critical of his time in office, including his former chief of staff, John F. Kelly, and former attorney general William P. Barr, as well as his ex-attorney Ty Cobb and former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Mark A. Milley.”

Kinzinger explained to Lemon why the elements of Project 2025 would end democracy, “The only thing you need for democracy to survive is just a basic trust, a basic compact with everybody that you can vote, your vote counts whoever gets the most votes wins...when that basic compact goes away you cannot, you cannot self-govern without that basic trust.” Starts at 15:10

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