Adam Kinzinger, former Republican elected official: “If Trump wins, American democracy risks not surviving” Kinzingers is one of the rare elected Republican officials to have dared to stand up to Donald Trump. He was a member of the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the assault on the Capitol.

He is the author of Renegat, a book in which he tells how the former American president, once again a candidate for the White House, took control of the Republican Party. The 45-year-old is a former Navy pilot and Iraq veteran.