Tucker Carlson called out soon-to-be-former Rep. Adam Kinzinger on his show last night after the Illinois Republican shared an obviously photoshopped hoax tweet that claimed to identify the “Ghost of Kyiv,” which itself is a likely fabricated tale of a Ukrainian fighter pilot who has allegedly shot down numerous Russian fighter planes:
TUCKER: Adam Kinzinger is pushing us towards World War III.
— Election Wizard 🇺🇸 (@ElectionWiz) March 1, 2022
Here’s the now-deleted tweet:
The ghost of Kyiv is fake, and not only that Sam Hyde is an American comedian with a YouTube channel people make memes about. Adam Kinzinger is a"Republican" representive that voted to impeach Trump. He's stepping down after his first term because he will not be able to win again pic.twitter.com/OlXDPxr4Oe
— Greg Willson (@GregWil33631062) February 27, 2022
But Kinzinger doubled down after the segment, tweeting that he and his idea for a U.S.-led no-fly zone over Ukraine isn’t “pushing us towards war”:
Tucker, I’m not pushing us towards war. Your mentor, Putin, is doing that. https://t.co/9Lc7YILBH1
— Adam Kinzinger (@AdamKinzinger) March 1, 2022
And he said his tweet was only up for “about 10 seconds”:
And that tweet was up for about 10 seconds, because I recognize and correct mistakes. @TuckerCarlson pivots to blame.
— Adam Kinzinger (@AdamKinzinger) March 1, 2022
It was nice of him to delete the hoax photoshop, but this tweet cheering on the “Ghost” is still up:
To the #ghostofkyiv we raise a glass. Here is to even more! https://t.co/7LLRtKq7lo
— Adam Kinzinger (@AdamKinzinger) February 25, 2022
Note, Rep. Eric Swalwell shared this tweet from Kinzinger as well:
Both Kinzinger and one of the media's other favorites, @EricSwalwell, are also ratifying and spreading complete forgeries all over Twitter. Needless to say, there's no action by Twitter to label or ban it. Disinformation is noble when deployed for the right cause. pic.twitter.com/mpx31jrt80
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 26, 2022
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And this tweet is still up. The photo, as we pointed out to him previously, is from at least 2013:
— Adam Kinzinger (@AdamKinzinger) February 26, 2022
Well, what do you expect from someone who quote-tweets Louise Mensch?
Adam Kinzinger quote-tweets Louise Mensch over his new hot take on Russia and the nuclear threat https://t.co/RbwcC143p2
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) February 28, 2022
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