The GOP senator called two of President Donald Trump's first presidential moves a "mistake" during Sunday morning television appearances.
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.
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
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"
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".
Trump pardoned about 1,500 people who were charged for their actions during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. That number includes 172 who pleaded guilty to assaulting law enforcement officers. Graham, however, points out that Trump said he would grant the pardons if he was reelected.
Sen. Lindsey Graham on Sunday said President Donald Trump sent “the wrong signal” in pardoning Jan. 6 rioters who violently assaulted police officers.
Pardoning the people who went into the Capitol and beat up a police officer violently I think was a mistake,’ Lindsey Graham says