On today’s special edition of “This… Is CNN… the Most Trusted Name in News”…

Let me start by saying this: The scenario practically writes itself. Consider the combination of the media outlet that calls itself the “most trusted name in news” with former Representative Adam Kinzinger from Illinois. His strong disdain for President Donald Trump is comparable to that of another former representative, Liz Cheney from Wyoming. What outcome does this pairing produce?

While “a chaotic situation” might come to mind, it doesn’t quite capture the severity when describing both CNN and Kinzinger, who left Congress in 2022 (with his departure officially in January 2023) after he was among just two Republican representatives to support Trump’s impeachment for the second time. (Cheney was the other.) As for CNN, its reputation is well-known for being a tumultuous entity influenced by Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Recently, CNN’s Anderson Cooper hosted Kinzinger in a segment aimed at persuading the few remaining viewers of the struggling network that Trump’s directives for strikes on three significant Iranian nuclear facilities were either unsuccessful or at least not the “ideal operation” that Trump purports it to have been.

Here’s a snippet from Kinzinger, in all of his magnificent Trump-hating glory (bitterness):

He declared victory before we had intelligence assessments and the worst part, he forced a ceasefire between the parties so that the B-2s couldn’t go back for round two, for instance, if they needed to. Nobody guaranteed that it would just take one round of strikes. The political decision that maybe you have to go back for a second strike was on Donald Trump and he failed at that.

Where does one begin? After laughing, I mean.

Adam Kinzinger said that Trump failed because the B-2s needed to make another pass to drop more bombs.

The is CNN. pic.twitter.com/DQeoOn79We

— MAZE (@mazemoore) June 26, 2025

Did you catch the look on Anderson Cooper’s face? I mean, the guy often appears stoic while guests comment, but the look on his face as Kinzinger continues to spew was like, “Dude, what are you talking about?”

First of all, Kinzinger didn’t have a clue what he was talking about. Where did he get his information? Other than from watching CNN and reading TDS-riddled posts on X (formerly, Twitter) or Bluesky (the left’s alternative to X, I mean.

As I reported on Thursday, Brett McGurk, former White House Coordinator for Middle East/North Africa, who also served in senior national security positions under presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden, “devastating” news to the no-doubt crestfallen CNN hacks during a Wednesday appearance on the network. 

McGurk said, in part:

As I come out of this briefing, I now know: BDA [Bomb Damage Assessment] Level Two, as I mentioned — BDA Level One, first 24 hours, looking at imagery. Level Two, did the ordnance work? Did everything go as we had wanted? The answer now is “yes.” 

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If you add it all up, from what we’re seeing, a massive, catastrophic setback for Iran’s program. 

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Fordow is rendered inoperable for the foreseeable future, probably forever.

Yeah, so I’m going to go out on a safe limb and bet on a former national security advisor who served four presidents, vs. the uninformed babbling of a failed congressman — who hates Trump — and simply could not, and still can’t, stop himself from saying stupid things.