Adam Kinzinger

You think they'd sneak it to Dan Bongino to be the guy to leak it?

This like fame addiction they have.

I mean, I would like to think if I was ever hired to be the director of the FBI, that I would very happily put my doing media and podcast thing aside with pleasure and focus on being the FBI director or the deputy director.

I'll text you, but I'm not coming on.

We'll keep a good friendship.

But unless you do something illegal, then I'll come after you.

But I'm going to kind of go a quick different direction, but it'll make sense.

One of the things that we didn't have the time in the January 6th committee to really flush out for the American people, it's in the report a little bit, but

is the role of emails, fundraising, and kind of clickbait in actually radicalizing people.

So one of the things we came to realize, so between the period of the election in 2020 and January 6th, the Trump, which I'd love to know where the money went, but the Trump campaign and Stop the Steal combined raised close to $400 million, I think, in just three months, keep in mind.

Yeah.

They did that through five to ten emails to everybody on their list every day that basically would say – imagine the headline.

They're stealing this.

The Democrats are coming for you.

Nancy Pelosi said this.

Boom, boom, boom, right?

And you get ten of these messages to your face a day.

You don't even have to open the emails.

Miles Bruner, who you know, who wrote for the Bulwark about leaving, he talks about his role in some of the fundraising and stuff like that.

All of those emails, those headlines, you do not need to open the body of the email.