In a stunning revelation, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, a staunch ally of former President Donald Trump, reportedly told Capitol Hill police to fire their weapons at protesters storming the Capitol on January 6th.
“What are you doing? Take back the Senate! You’ve got guns. Use them,” Graham told Capitol police officials. “We give you guns for a reason. Use them.”
Graham’s office confirmed that the senator had indeed told police to shoot at pro-Trump protesters, calling the quotes “accurate.”
According to the report, Senator Graham also phoned Ivanka Trump multiple times throughout the incident and gave suggestions to her over what President Trump should publicly say.
A House select committee is currently investigating the storming of the Capitol, and at least five former Trump staffers have already interviewed with committee investigators. Trump has launched a legal effort to block the committee from reviewing phone call logs and documents relating to the incident, citing executive privilege.
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Trump Ally? he hates trump with a passion
What about firing into the crowd of looters to take back our streets! Why should that be any different? Why not defend our stores, banks, offices, and institutions against the black marauders that invaded our neighborhoods and communities?
To top this all off, 65 NYPD officers are being disciplined for misbehavior against these criminals!
He’s a conservative, law and order, type, and conservative “law and order” types tend to think that a whiff of gunpowder if an effective way to convince a rioting mob to calm down. Unless you believe that Jan. 6 was a Republican insurrection attempting to stage a putsch, you shouldn’t be shocked that conservative Republicans would be outraged by the riot. It is a distinctly liberal perspective the feels the rioters who break laws should be treated with kindness, or at least humored.
Was he wrong??? He may be an ally of Trump but that was just chaos and lawlessness.
Senator Graham is absolutely right. An armed attack on the U.S. Capitol is not mere “trespassing.”
Seems like a classic “Ba bamachteres” to me…but worse, on a grand, international scale.
So this just proves it wasn’t a Republican insurection.
Graham will never win a Republican primary again. Unfortunately he has 5 years until he needs to face one.
Shomeia, there was no “armed attack”. Almost all those arrested did nothing but trespass, and most of them didn’t even do that, because they entered through open doors. But there is NO DIFFERENCE between the US Capitol and any department store or other business. If you would not support security guards at a store being looted opening fire, then you have no right to support Capitol police doing so either.