‘RINO’ GOP House Reps Fred Upton and Anthony Gonzalez Complain to CNN’s Jake Tapper About Trump

In a statement yesterday looking for challengers to “RINO” GOP U.S. House Reps, former President Donald Trump mentioned Fred Upton (MI) and Anthony Gonzalez (OH).

Both Upton and Gonzalez today mentioned the former president during interviews with CNN’s Jake Tapper on his show “State of the Union.”

Gonzalez told Tapper in a sit-down interview, “The cold hard truth is Donald Trump led us into a ditch on January 6. The former president lied to us.”

“He lied to every one of us and in doing so he cost (Republicans) the House, the Senate, and the White House,” Gonzalez asserted.

Gonzalez, who has announced that he won’t run for re-election in 2022, continued, “I see, fundamentally, a person who shouldn’t be able to hold office again because of what he did around January 6. But I also see somebody who’s an enormous political loser.”

“And I don’t know why anybody who wants to win elections going forward would follow that. I simply, like, I don’t get it ethically. I certainly don’t get it politically. Neither of them makes sense,” Gonzalez explained.

Gonzalez then insisted, “If he’s the nominee again in ’24, I will do everything I personally can to make sure he doesn’t win.”

“Now I’m not voting for Democrats, but whether that’s finding a viable third party or whether that’s trying to defeat him in primaries, whatever it is, that’s going to be where I’ll spend my time, January 6 was the line that can’t be crossed,” Gonzalez added.

Upton was asked by Tapper about Jan. 6 as well, who claimed it was perhaps the “beginning” of violence in politics, completely ignoring what happened the previous four years from Antifa and BLM.

When pressed by Tapper, Upton referenced the alleged phone call between House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Trump that day and said, “It’s not right, it’s not appropriate, and it’s certainly not totally appropriate as the president said in his own words in terms of his actions that he took that day.”