Adam Kinzinger calls the Hunter Biden coin launch "ridiculous" and says corruption must end "no matter who it is"
Adam KinzingerFormer Republican member of the United States House of Representatives for Illinois, posting on his own Bluesky account
Former Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger posted on the day the token launched that the Hunter Biden cryptocurrency story was ridiculous and that corruption in the country had to end regardless of who was responsible.
“The Hunter Biden cryptocurrency story is ridiculous. The corruption in this country has to end, no matter who it is. It's out of control.”
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Hunter Biden’s laptop memecoin ($LAPTOP): launch and criticism
Hunter Biden launched the $LAPTOP memecoin, using the name of the laptop controversy that has defined his public profile. Critics including Coffeezilla and cryptocurrency commentators called the project a “shitcoin” or scam and warned against buying it; Channel 5 disavowed promoting crypto after controversy over an audience-list file. Biden framed the token as an act of resilience, redemption, and recovery and contrasted it with Donald Trump’s token.
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The speaker's own post on Bluesky, published the day the token launched. Kinzinger is a former Republican member of Congress and a frequent critic of his own party, and frames the objection as applying regardless of party.
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The $LAPTOP token launched on September 9 and lost most of its value within minutes. Biden had promoted the launch, using the name of the laptop controversy that has defined his public profile.
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Cryptocurrency commentators including Coffeezilla described the project as a scam. Kinzinger's framing, that the objection applies regardless of party, contrasts with commentary tying the launch to the Trump family's own token ventures.
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Kinzinger rejects the launch and places it in a category of corruption he says must end, which condemns the conduct under scrutiny. The closest competing label is minimizes, because calling something ridiculous can dismiss it as unserious rather than treat it as wrong. That loses because he pairs the word with an explicit charge of corruption, and the phrase "no matter who it is" signals he is applying a standard rather than belittling the matter.
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