Georgia Republican Candidate Donated to Kinzinger PAC, Said Trump ‘Can’t Go Down in Political Flames Fast Enough’
John Cowan, candidate for the 11th District seat vacated by Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), had previously denounced Donald Trump in interviews and in social media posts that have since been deleted.
Federal Election Commission (FEC) records show Cowan donated $2,500 on March 4, 2021, to the Future First Leadership PAC, the political committee launched by then-Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, who become one of Trump’s fiercest Republican critics. Five days after Cowan’s donation, CNN reported, “Representative Adam Kinzinger wants to save the Republican Party from Donald Trump. His first challenge: convincing the party that it needs to be saved.”
In April 2021, Cowan said The United States today“Until we had President Trump, I never really saw the conservative movement making an idol of the leader of the party when it was more about fealty than loyalty.”
He added: “Trump was a dynamic leader, and after eight years under (Barack) Obama, the party was looking for someone to lead us out of the wilderness. And instead of him being Moses, some people turned him into God, and I think we lost our way a little bit.”
Archived copies of deleted posts on X show that Cowan made a series of remarks criticizing Trump and his role in the Republican Party.
January 17, 2021, Cowan common an article titled “Trump’s impeachment is deeply flawed, but he deserves to be convicted” and wrote: “A very well constructed argument and worth reading. »
Less than a month later, on February 12, 2021, Cowan wrote“The Republican Party must take the energy of change cultivated by Trump and channel it into constitutional principles based on facts, truth and a philosophy of a ‘More Perfect Union.’ The party is not Trump’s; it is the people’s.”
January 12, 2021, Cowan said the events of January 6, 2021 “should forever be known ignominiously as the ‘Trump Rebellion’ so that future generations will immediately know who and what happened.” »
January 15, 2022, Cowan replied to a video of Trump discussing the 2020 election, writing, “He should have taken Hannity’s advice and stopped mentioning the election…sounds like a drunk uncle here.” »
Two weeks later, on January 30, 2022, Cowan declared“Agreed Erick. The GOP cannot consider itself the home of the conservative movement with Trump in any form of leadership.”
On November 25, 2022, Cowan wrote: “Trump taking a leaf from the MT(G) playbook? Both can’t go down in political flames fast enough.”
Then, on December 15, 2022, after Trump announced a digital trading card collection, Cowan said, “Not a serious presidential candidate.”
Cowan is a neurosurgeon from north Georgia who previously ran in the Republican primary for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, losing to former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG) in 2020.
