The GOP senator said Trump "technically" broke the law by firing several inspectors general, but "has the authority to do it."
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.
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.
Pardoning the people who went into the Capitol and beat up a police officer violently I think was a mistake,’ Lindsey Graham says
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.
Trump FBI director nominee Kash Patel was grilled Thursday over the FBI’s investigation into alleged Trump-Russia connection, known as "Crossfire Hurricane."
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) railed against the Steele dossier, a debunked document central to the Trump-Russia investigation.