Republican lawmakers have let Donald Trump get away with just about something over the past 4 years. Their enabling the President, partially, led to the terrorist assault on the US Capitol final week.
And no Republican enabled Trump greater than Lindsey Graham. The South Carolina senator, who stood in offended opposition to Trump in the course of the 2016 primaries, later turned certainly one of his largest followers.
When Trump supporters stormed the Capitol final week, although, Graham was wanting in every single place for assist. And based on Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Graham berated cops for not doing sufficient to guard him from Trump’s mob.
Brown advised Ari Melber, “I heard after we — when 175 senators have been confined in a room with about 75 workers folks, Lindsey Graham together with his masks off began screaming at one of many officers, I feel it was certainly one of the captains, saying ‘How come you didn’t defend us?’ This is similar Lindsey graham that for 5 years — or for fours years, he didn’t do it at the start, defended and argued for and abetted this president.”
Melber jumped in, “You noticed — senator, when you have been nonetheless within the emergency of it, you noticed Senator Graham yelling or berating an officer? What was he getting at?”
Sen. Sherrod Brown: Whereas We Have been in Lockdown at Capitol, Lindsey Graham was Berating Police Officers For Not Doing a Good Sufficient Job of Defending Lawmakers. pic.twitter.com/GnY2mtKZLY
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The Ohio lawmaker continued:
“Yeah, I’ve not mentioned this publicly but, however once I hear graham and these others say this stuff and he was screaming at an officer, he had his masks off, screaming at his officer from 5 toes away — I was possibly ten toes on the opposite aspect. And the officer didn’t — that the police didn’t do sufficient to defend us. The identical Lindsey Graham that aided and abetted the identical variety of senators that then a variety of them, Lindsey wasn’t certainly one of them, however they got here again and nonetheless sided with these terrorists after the assault on our capitol, so I don’t know what they’ve discovered.”
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