Former Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger of Illinois said on Sunday that he knows what the mystery drones actually are, prompting MAGA outrage.
Kinzinger, who recently hit Donald Trump with a challenge of his own after the president-elect said Kinzinger should be jailed, told CNN on Sunday that the "drones" people are seeing are just airplanes. The drones have been reported across the Northeastern part of the United States.
"I've spent the last couple of days looking at every one of these videos, every video I have seen on Twitter, and on the Internet are all airplanes," the ex-lawmaker and pilot said on CNN. "They're literally all airplanes."
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Right-wing broadcaster Nick Sortor said that "disgraced former Rep. Adam Kinzinger says we are NOT spotting drones, but instead are only seeing airplanes."
"He is ONCE AGAIN verifiably wrong," Sortor added. "Why the hell is CNN giving this clown any airtime?"
Pro-Trump influencer Collin Rugg said, "Adam Kinzinger says after spending a couple of days looking at videos, he can confidently say the New Jersey 'drones,' are just airplanes."
"The drone 'expert' said there was nothing to be worried about because the FBI told him everything was okay," the influencer added.
Another popular pro-Trump account, MAGA Kitty, said, "Crack UAP and Drone expert, Adam Kinzinger, tells everyone to move along, nothing to see here…these are ALL just PLANES!"
Conservative political commentator, lawyer, and social media influencer Rogan O'Handley, known better by his social media handle DC Draino, said, "Oh look - The guy who lied (and cried) about J6 now wants us to believe what he says about the NJ drones."
"If Adam Kinzinger says they’re just airplanes then I now definitively know they are anything except airplanes," O'Handley said.
"Look who is pissed, the MAGAs. Somehow this is political. They are MAD it’s not Iran or aliens," Kinzinger said in response to the outrage.