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Sam Levine in New York

Kinzinger: Republicans ‘hypocritical’ for defending Trump over taking classified material

Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger has been one of the most vocal critics of Trump.
Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger has been one of the most vocal critics of Trump. Photograph: Patrick Semansky/AP

Congressman Adam Kinzinger, the Illinois Republican who has been one of the most vocal critics of Donald Trump, called out his party for criticizing Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while continuing to defend the former president’s decision to take sensitive government information to his home at Mar-a-Lago.

Kinzinger’s comments came days after the FBI released a redacted version of the affidavit the agency submitted to a federal judge to justify a search of Trump’s home. The document details how Trump retained classified material at Mar-a-Lago and that the government had been working for more than a year to retrieve those materials. A batch of documents returned earlier this year contained 184 documents marked as classified, including 25 marked as top secret.

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