Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), on Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Situation Room,” said the death threats he and other lawmakers are receiving over the course of the January 6 hearings show the “depravity of what’s existing out there.”
Anchor Wolf Blitzer said, “I know over the weekend you revealed that you received a very disturbing death threat directly at your family and you. Are these threats ongoing? Are you among the members who are now getting a security detail?”
Kinzinger said, “So I’ll tell you the threats are constant. They’ve increased. And I even heard a voicemail just this morning that we got last night threatening execution. That kind of seems to be the normal thing nowadays. Let’s just threaten execution. But this is the reason I released this letter. This was sent directly to my home, directly to my wife. And it went on to…