Previously: Trump Claims He’ll Pardon All J6ers “On Day One”
Lindsey Graham’s relationship with Trump is bizarre, insofar as Trump actually believes anything he says.
You shall recall that Lindsey was “never Trump” in 2016, and attacked Trump with John McCain throughout the first years of his first term.
Now, however, Lindsey says he supports Trump, while going out and promoting the opposite agenda.
Lindsey isn’t the only one doing this. Virtually all of the mainstream Republicans claim to support Trump, while promoting the opposite of what his supporters promote (and believe Trump stands for). Marco Rubio is another case-in-point.
In many ways, “America First” has simply become a euphemism for “neoconservative.”
US senator Lindsey Graham has said officials who investigated Donald Trump supporters’ deadly attack on the US Capitol in 2021 should not be imprisoned – despite what his fellow Republican has argued in advance of his second presidency.During an interview Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press, show host Kristen Welker asked Graham whether he agreed with Trump’s assertion on the program seven days earlier that those involved in the investigation of the January 6 Capitol attack “should go to jail”.
“No,” said Graham, South Carolina’s senior senator as well as a ranking member of the chamber’s judiciary and budget committees.
Welker directed the question at Graham during a segment meant to elicit quick answers, which she acknowledged by replying: “OK – that was very clear and concise.”
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More than 1,250 people have pleaded guilty or otherwise been convicted in the January 6 attack. And at least 645 people have been sentenced to serve some time in prison, ranging from a few days to 22 years.
During his 8 December interview with Welker, Trump blamed those convictions on “a very corrupt system” that he would hold in check with pardons, despite criticizing Biden’s recent pardon of his son, Hunter, on convictions of lying on gun ownership application forms as well as tax evasion.
“I know the system,” said Trump, himself convicted in May in New York state court on charges of criminally falsifying business records to conceal hush-money payments to the adult film actor Stormy Daniels.
Obviously, if government officials could face prosecution for hoaxes, Lindsey would be doomed. He’s engaged in virtually every hoax, including all of the war hoaxes.
Politicians will never say other politicians should go to jail for hoaxing. It is a fundamental aspect of democracy that no one is ever held accountable for anything.