Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) is questioning why the Republican National Committee (RNC) is
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) is questioning why the Republican National Committee (RNC) is moving to censure Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), prominent critics of former President Trump who are both serving on the House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
"The RNC is censuring Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger because they are trying to find out what happened on January 6th," Cassidy wrote in a tweet. "HUH?"
Cassidy is one of seven Senate Republicans who voted to convict Trump on an impeachment charge for his actions ahead of the mob attack on the Capitol a year ago.
Trump and Jan. 6 itself have badly divided the GOP as Trump continues to wield enormous influence within the party.
Kinzinger is leaving the House at the end of his term, while Cheney is facing a primary opponent supported by the former president. Cheney also was kicked out of the House Republican leadership team.
In the Senate, the divisions over Trump have been more muted than those in the House, but Trump has repeatedly criticized Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). McConnell did not vote to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial, but did starkly criticize the former president in a floor speech for his actions.
The RNC is expected to consider the resolution to censure the two Republicans at its winter meeting on Friday.
In a statement on the RNC resolution, Kinzinger said he is now "even more committed to fighting conspiracies and lies."
"I'm a constitutional conservative and I do not recognize those in my party who have abandoned the Constitution to embrace Donald Trump," Cheney said in a statement on Thursday.
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Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) said in an interview Monday that it was wrong for the Republican National Committee (RNC) to censure him and Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) for their work on the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, mob attack on the Capitol.
In an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" show, Kinzinger said that the RNC's censure "was a bridge that went way too far."
He told MSNBC that the Jan. 6 committee is "working together, pulling in the same direction all to get one thing, which is answers."
In a separate interview with CNN's "New Day" on Monday, Kinzinger said the RNC is "completely unmoored from truth."
He said it had "pledged allegiance to one man over any kind of principle."
"Conservatism is no longer about what you actually believe, it's about how intensely you're loyal to Donald Trump," he said. This in turn shows the party "is not committed to the rule of law, despite what they say and it's not committed to democratic principles," he told CNN.
The RNC resolution said Friday that Cheney and Kinzinger have been engaging in the "persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse," referring to the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol.
Officials later said that language was not referring to those who took violent actions and entered the Capitol on Jan. 6, but the language voted upon by the RNC was not changed.
Kinzinger and Cheney have both taken severe political lumps for their criticism of former President Trump, who was impeached for a second time for inciting the Jan. 6 mob, and for their work on the panel.
Cheney was booted from House GOP leadership and is facing a Trump-backed primary challenger. Kinzinger has decided to not run for reelection.
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