{"id":1601215,"date":"2022-08-11T12:47:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T16:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1601215"},"modified":"2022-08-11T12:48:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T16:48:04","slug":"allegiance-to-trump-over-his-oath-to-the-constitution-january-6-committee-republican-blasts-man-he-flew-with-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/allegiance-to-trump-over-his-oath-to-the-constitution-january-6-committee-republican-blasts-man-he-flew-with-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Allegiance To Trump Over His Oath To The Constitution\u2019: January 6 Committee Republican Blasts Man He Flew With In Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fallegiance-to-trump-over-his-oath-to-the-constitution-january-6-committee-republican-blasts-man-he-flew-with-in-iraq%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1601215&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), a congressman with more than half a million followers, posted a screenshot of Facebook criticism from his former co-pilot on Twitter and accused him of \u201callegiance to Trump over his oath to the constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Illinois Republican\u2019s membership on the Democrat-led January 6 committee investigating former President Donald Trump\u2019s alleged role in the Capitol riot has sparked strong condemnation from his critics.<\/p>\n<p>This includes a man who reportedly served as Kinzinger\u2019s co-pilot in Iraq, Jeff Surran, who the congressman said now works as an airline pilot. Kinzinger did not mention what airline Surran flies for, but the congressman\u2019s post quickly prompted some users to say that Surran is employed by JetBlue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we have a member on here who was partly responsible for the former President of the United States residence being stormed by the FBI today,\u201d Surran posted in a private Facebook group that Kinzinger appears to be part of. \u201cI say f*** that anti American POS. I wish I never met him or flew with him. He is a disgrace to this country and this group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kinzinger posted a screenshot of the Facebook post, taken apparently seven minutes after Surran initially posted and before anyone had liked the post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis guy, Jeff Suran, was my copilot in Iraq and now an airline pilot,\u201d Kinzinger tweeted. \u201cHe has allegiance to Trump over his oath to the constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This guy, Jeff Suran, was my copilot in Iraq and now an airline pilot. He has allegiance to Trump over his oath to the constitution. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pnQgkPTZsk\">pic.twitter.com\/pnQgkPTZsk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adam Kinzinger\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\u270c\ufe0f (@AdamKinzinger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamKinzinger\/status\/1556842476589223941?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kinzinger\u2019s Twitter post prompted some users to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Art72903458\/status\/1556889692246683648\">begin tweeting<\/a> at JetBlue and criticize Surran for his opinions. However, others praised Surran, letting JetBlue know that they would make the airline \u201cour first choice for air travel for hiring such great, patriotic, veteran pilots.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kinzinger did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire as to why he posted about Surran and whether the post was intended to impact Surran\u2019s employment. Surran could not immediately be reached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), a congressman with more than half a million followers, posted a screenshot of Facebook criticism from his former co-pilot on Twitter and accused him of \u201callegiance to Trump over his oath to the constitution.\u201d The Illinois Republican\u2019s membership on the Democrat-led January 6 committee investigating former President Donald Trump\u2019s alleged role &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1601302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1601215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1601215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1601302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1601215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1601215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1601215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}