Longtime Trump backer Lindsey Graham says pardoning Jan. 6 defendants was a ‘mistake’
Longtime Trump backer Lindsey Graham says pardoning Jan. 6 defendants was a ‘mistake’
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‘Pardoning the people who went into the Capitol and beat up a police officer violently I think was a mistake,’ Lindsey Graham says. A longtime backer of President Donald Trump, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, said Sunday that he thinks the new president’s choice to pardon January 6 defendants was a “mistake.”.
“Pardoning the people who went into the Capitol and beat up a police officer violently I think was a mistake, because it seems to suggest that’s an OK thing to do,” Graham said on NBC’s Meet the Press. Graham went on to connect Trump’s pardons of violent criminals to former President Joe Biden’s choice to pardon a number of members of his family in the final hours of his presidency.
“You know, Biden pardoned half his family going out the door. I think most Americans, if this continues ... will revisit the pardon power of the president if this continues,” Graham added. “As to pardoning violent people who beat up cops, I think that’s a mistake.”.
California Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff said Biden was “wrong” to hand down the pardons. “What it says now to the Trump family and to President Trump’s kids: they can engage in any kind of malfeasance, criminality, graft, whatever, and they can expect a pardon on the way out the door. That is not a message you want to send to this family, or really any family occupying the White House,” Schiff said on Meet the Press.
