Lindsey Graham said he had no intention of honoring a subpoena from a special grand jury in Georgia. A judge told him he doesn't have a choice. (via MaddowBlog)
to several people close to Donald Trump — including Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham. Almost immediately thereafter, the South Carolinian’s lawyers said Graham didn’t intend to honor the subpoena, dismissing the local investigation as “all politics.”, a judge took the next obvious step and told Graham he has no choice but to testify.
The description of the GOP senator as a “necessary and material witness” is more than fair given the circumstances. As we recently discussed, it was about a week after the 2020 presidential race was called when Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, With this in mind, it was hardly a shock when the Fulton County District Attorney’s office, investigating possible election interference, said it wanted to hear Graham’s side of the story.last week that the Fulton County district attorney’s office was “engaged in a fishing expedition and working in concert with the January 6 Committee in Washington,” adding that if Graham cooperated, his testimony “would immediately be shared” with the bipartisan House select committee.
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