‘Good call by the President’: Adam Kinzinger was winning some respect but makes a hard turn back to Donald Trump worship

Adam Kinzinger, the principled critic with a spine made of steel (or so we thought), just hit the brakes on his slow march toward redemption and made a hard swerve back into the warm, suffocating embrace of Donald Trump’s shadow.

Let’s not forget, this is the same Kinzinger who became a household name for his public rebuke of Trump and the MAGA cult. He stood out as one of the rare Republicans who dared to criticize the chaos and conspiracy theories that defined Trump’s presidency. He told us he was different, that his moral compass wasn’t for sale. He even joined the January 6th Committee to show the world he wasn’t afraid to stand up to the guy who turned the Republican Party into a reality TV spinoff. But now? Now he’s back to clapping for Trump.

Kinzinger’s apparent fall from grace came in the form of a post on X:

In his post, Kinzinger applauded the U.S. military strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, calling it “the right call” and urging follow-up actions like suppressing missile fire and moving toward negotiations. The strikes targeted three major Iranian nuclear facilities—Fordo, Natanz, and Isfahan—key hubs of Iran’s uranium enrichment program. Trump, never one to undersell anything, called the strikes a “spectacular military success” and wasted no time taking a victory lap on his Truth Social platform, bragging about dropping a “full payload of BOMBS.”

And yet, here Kinzinger is, siding with Trump on a military action that many experts, including members of the U.S. intelligence community, have questioned. For context, U.S. intelligence has consistently assessed that Iran is not actively pursuing nuclear weapons. Even as far back as 2007, intelligence reports have stated that Iran’s Supreme Leader had not authorized the development of nuclear weapons. In fact, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has repeatedly confirmed that Iran is in compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), despite being under relentless scrutiny. So why the sudden urgency to bomb their facilities?

This isn’t about protecting the world from a nuclear Iran; it’s about political posturing. And Kinzinger, for reasons only he can explain, decided to co-sign this charade. It’s difficult to definitively say whether Adam Kinzinger received direct donations from AIPAC or any Israel Lobby. Kinzinger in the past has participated in an American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF) seminar in Israel. AIEF is a non-profit charity affiliated with AIPAC.

Regardless, the U.S.’s involvement risks turning this into a full-blown regional conflict, which would be catastrophic for everyone involved. And let’s not forget the glaring double standard here: Israel, the only nuclear-armed state in the Middle East, refuses to sign the NPT or allow international inspections of its nuclear arsenal, yet it’s Iran that gets labeled the biggest threat.