Two senior Republican senators urged President Donald Trump to rethink his decision to strip personal security from some former Trump administration officials, one of whom was the target of an alleged Iranian plot.
S.C., on Sunday said he believes it was “a mistake” for President Donald Trump to pardon those who were convicted of violent crimes or pleaded guilty to committing violent crimes during the Jan. 6, 2021,
Trump pardoned over 1,500 people charged with attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, 34 of them from South Carolina.
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.”
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham wants to claw back funds from the Biden administration’s hallmark clean energy law to pay for President Donald Trump’s deportation and border control campaign promises. Amid a flurry of executive orders Trump signed on his first day in office was an order blocking certain funds Congress previously authorized to
The South Carolina senator admitted that Donald Trump broke the law with his mass firing of inspectors general.
S.C., said congressional Republicans who delay funding for border czar Tom Homan could "own another attack on our country."
Graham was a fierce critic of Trump before the latter’s 2016 election victory over Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. The lawmaker went on to become one of Trump’s most loyal defenders, breaking with him slightly over the Jan. 6 riot, before resorting to his supportive ways.
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".
Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Trump ally, affirmed his opinion of Trump pardoning Jan. 6 rioters saying he doesn't like anything that would send the "wrong signal"
Trump FBI director nominee Kash Patel was grilled Thursday over the FBI’s investigation into alleged Trump-Russia connection, known as "Crossfire Hurricane."