Adam Hamilton tells CNN the church should have called police, and calls the attacks a deflection
Adam HamiltonDemocratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Kansas and founding pastor of the Church of the Resurrection, in an interview with CNN
Adam Hamilton, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Kansas, tells CNN's Manu Raju that the church should have called police immediately and calls the attacks a deflection, in a report published Oct. 18, 2026.
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Asked by CNN's Manu Raju whether he would have done anything differently, Hamilton says the church should have called police immediately but that it was not its policy 21 years ago, and calls the attacks a desperate attempt to deflect from Marshall's record.
Responding to
Boys were molested at Adam Hamilton's church camp, his church swept their reports under the rug and welcomed the abuser back, and Hamilton protected a pedophile.
“Absolutely. Like, we should have called the police immediately. But that was not our policies 21 years ago. This is desperate attempts to try to deflect from a horrible record Roger Marshall has.”
Interview
Where this statement fits
Super PAC ads accuse Roger Marshall and Adam Hamilton of protecting pedophiles in the Kansas Senate race; FactCheck.org calls both attacks misleading or unsupported
A WinSenate ad says Sen. Roger Marshall helped cover up Jeffrey Epstein's abuse by voting to keep the Epstein files sealed, and a Senate Leadership Fund ad says his Democratic opponent, Adam Hamilton, protected a pedophile at his church's camp. FactCheck.org says both attacks are misleading or unsupported by the evidence.
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Interview
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A CNN report by Manu Raju on the Kansas Senate race with interviews of Adam Hamilton and Sen. Roger Marshall. Raju asks Hamilton about ads accusing him of covering up a child sex abuse case at a church camp two decades ago and about a Truth Social post by President Trump.
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Before the quotation
Raju says Marshall is running ads accusing Hamilton of covering up a child sex abuse scandal and that Trump piled on in a Truth Social post. Hamilton says the president is lying and twisting the truth, and that every organization that looked into the claims four months earlier found them a misrepresentation of what happened. Raju then asks whether he would have done anything differently.
After the quotation
Hamilton says Marshall sued more than 700 of his own patients for paying their medical bills late, and Raju turns to reporting on the billing practices of Marshall's medical practice.
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The reference point is the super PAC ads' accusations that Marshall and Hamilton protected pedophiles. Hamilton calls the accusations a misrepresentation and says the president is lying while conceding that the church should have called police, which disputes the characterization without denying the underlying events.
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Read the full caseFactCheck.org says both Kansas attacks are misleading or unsupported by the evidence
FactCheck.org
“In both cases, the attacks are misleading or unsupported by the evidence.”Read statement
WinSenate says Marshall turned his back on Epstein survivors who pleaded for transparency
WinSenate
“When survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse pleaded with Roger Marshall for justice and transparency, he turned his back on them”Read statement
Senate Leadership Fund calls Hamilton a pedophile protector after his CNN answer
Senate Leadership Fund
“pedophile protector Adam Hamilton admitted that he failed to report a sexual predator abusing children under his watch to law enforcement, despite multiple children coming forward.”Read statement
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