Senator Lindsey Graham, a longtime ally of Donald Trump, criticized on Sunday the president's pardon of about 1,500 of his supporters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, saying it could lead to more violence.
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham incited the fury of President Donald Trump’s most fervent supporters after describing the president’s decision to pardon more than 1500 Jan. 6 insurrectionists as a “mistake”—with one former prisoner slamming Graham as a “Republican in name only.
The republican senator also laid into former President Joe Biden for pardoning "all of his family going out the door."
Sen. Lindsey Graham on Sunday said President Donald Trump sent “the wrong signal” in pardoning Jan. 6 rioters who violently assaulted police officers.
S.C., said congressional Republicans who delay funding for border czar Tom Homan could "own another attack on our country."
Senator Graham said while President Trump had the legal authority to issue the pardons, he thought it was a mistake to pardon people who "beat up a police officer violently.... because it seems to suggest that's an okay thing to do".
US Senator Lindsey Graham tells NBC News his ally President Trump shouldn't have pardoned 6 January defendants who attacked police.
As President Donald Trump issues a flurry of executive orders during his first week in office, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) reacts to his blanket pardons for Jan. 6, 2021, rioters. Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, a top Trump ally, says the White House pardoning rioters who fought with police while storming the U.S. is “sending the wrong signal.”
Pardoning the people who went into the Capitol and beat up a police officer violently I think was a mistake,’ Lindsey Graham says
S.C., on Sunday urged his congressional Republican colleagues to prioritize sending more money to the Trump administration to help the president with his mass deportation plan. “Here’s the question for the Republican Party.