GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger: 'My party has utterly failed the American people at truth'

• GOP Rep Adam Kinzinger, one of two Republicans on the Jan. 6 committee, slammed his party Sunday.

• He has charged that Donald Trump knew he lost his 2020 reelection bid ahead of the Capitol riot.

• "Unfortunately, my party has utterly failed the American people at truth," Kinzinger said.

GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger, one of two Republicans in the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot, said on Sunday that Donald Trump "knew what he was doing" ahead of the insurrection and that his party has failed "at truth."

"I certainly think the president is guilty of knowing what he did, seditious conspiracy, being involved in these, you know, kind of different segments of pressuring the DOJ, vice president, et cetera," Kinzinger said on ABC's "This Week" when the host George Stephanopoulos asked whether he thought Trump should be prosecuted over the riot.

"Unfortunately, my party has utterly failed the American people at truth. It makes me sad, but it's a fact," Kinzinger added.

Kinzinger has argued that Trump knew he lost his 2020 reelection ahead of the Capitol riot.

"The president absolutely tried to overthrow the will of the people, and he tried to do it initially through misinformation, through the Department of Justice, through pressuring the vice president, and then on January 6," he said last week on CBS's "Face the Nation."

A majority of Americans in a recent poll by Ipsos and ABC News said Trump should be criminally charged over the Capitol riot.

"Obviously, you know, we're not a criminal-charges committee," Kinzinger said Sunday. "So I want to be careful and specifically using that language. But I think what we're presenting before the American people certainly would rise to a level of criminal involvement by a president and definitely failure of the oath has to matter here, your personal demand to stand for the Constitution has to matter."

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