Here's what Lindsey Graham gets totally wrong about Trump document scandal. - maddowblog
” if Donald Trump were to be criminally charged in the scandal surrounding classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. The South Carolinian specifically argued that the violence wouldn’t just be a partisan backlash, but rather, it’d be a response to a perceived injustice and lack of fairness.
Graham was willing to endorse “handling classified information responsibly,” but again added that “mishandling classified information is really bad, but we can’t have a system where one person gets prosecuted and the other doesn’t.” Right off the bat, as law enforcement faces an escalating number of threats from right-wing extremists, Graham could take this opportunity to discourage radicalized members of his party’s base from turning to violence. Given his proximity to the former president, that might even help.
: “Graham’s angry, pointed declaration of what would come was predicated on the idea that riots would in some way be justified, that a universe of Trump supporters who have come to understand investigations as unwarranted wouldGraham hasn’t bothered to argue that Trump is innocent. Indeed, the senator has seemed largely indifferent to criminal culpability.
Australia Latest News, Australia Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
What Lindsey Graham still doesn’t get about his ‘riots’ rhetoricLindsey Graham keeps arguing that the Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton controversies are the same. As the former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, he almost certainly knows he's wrong. (via MaddowBlog)
Read more »
Graham Foy on the Journey to Venice for Teen Drama ‘The Maiden’“The Maiden,” Graham Foy’s finely tuned story of adolescent mythmaking, togetherness and grief, has its world premiere Tuesday in Venice Days before heading to Toronto, but the film’s impressive in…
Read more »
Rubio's latest defense of Trump classified docs scandal is unintentionally funnyIf any Republican was to going to take the Mar-a-Lago scandal seriously, it'd be Marco Rubio. Alas, he can’t quite bring himself to put country over party.
Read more »
By GOP's standards, Trump's classified docs scandal is now a ‘problem’There’s an opportunity to re-evaluate the Mar-a-Lago story — not by my standards, or the Justice Department’s standards, but by GOP lawmakers' own words.
Read more »