Adam Kinzinger
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So there's legitimate questions.
He's the president of the United States.
And, you know, that's kind of creepy.
Oh, completely.
And this is big brother stuff.
Now, I'm not going to give them the credit to say that they're building some well-oiled machine surveillance state, because I don't think they are.
But I think they are so insecure that...
Instead of looking at it and saying, well, let's just get the files out there.
Let's have transparency.
Let's, you know, if somebody deserves to be prosecuted, let's prosecute them.
It becomes like it always does with MAGA and particularly with Donald Trump.
They automatically insert themselves into the position of victim and they automatically insert themselves in the position of defense.
The only way to defend themselves is to attack somebody.
It can be crazy.
It can be real.
But that's all they know.
And so, yeah, I mean, look, if I was a member of Congress and I fast,
And I found out this happened.
I'd be furious, not because I necessarily have a reasonable expectation of privacy that other people don't.
But the idea of what I'm doing in my position as a member of Congress should be completely separate from the knowledge of the executive branch, if I so choose, comes down again to the basic thing of separation of powers.