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Senator Lindsey Graham saying to Capitol police inside the Capitol building on Jan 6 2021:
"we give you guns for a reason. Use them"
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/lindsey-graham-capitol-police-shoot-jan-6-gunsI
might be able to understand Senator Graham's saying that impulsively in the heat of moment, during the chaos of a riot on Jan 6th. But he didn't voice similar calls for action or retribution when it was later revealed that very few actual Trump supporters turned out to be involved, and that (out of 600 protesters who entered peacefully and only trespassed, many invited in, SHOWN ON VIDEO, by the Capitol police themselves). The small fraction of those, of the only 60 people stoking the violence or vandalism (according to the FBI's own investigative reports of Jan 6th) were "at least 20" who were "un-indicted co-conspirators" (i.e., FBI agents,
agents provacateur, and at least 20 who were Antifa led by John Earle Sullivan, who combined, FBI and Antifa, were at least 40 of the 60).
No re-assessment or criticism by Graham of those who hijacked the Jan 6th protests inside the Capitol. Or re-assessment or comment by Sen Graham on the FBI's or Capitol police's or Antifa's orchestration of the push inside the Capitol.
Especially unforgivable is Sen. Graham's use of the rioting chaos on Jan 6th to call for shutting down of
the legitimate and constitutional challenge of the fraudulent electoral votes on January 6th by his fellow Republican Senators and Congressmen. As opposed to Graham instead (as he should have) pressing for a debate for several weeks by a joint session of the Senate and Congress on the legitimacy of the electors in those states. When the joint session re-convened about 3 hours after the rioting, that was the right thing for Graham and other RINOs to do after the hearings were brought back in session.
Graham often acts as a Democrat/swamp agent within the Republican party, undermining the Republican party from within. A textbook RINO, who occasionally makes noises as if he were a committed Republican conservative, but a majority of the time betraying the people who voted for him.
Trump's most regretted political endorsements must surely be Mitt Romney, Lindsey Graham, and Mitch McConnell, all of whom would have lost without Trump's political endorsements and active campaigning on their behalf. But if they had been replaced by Democrats, I guess the damage would have been worse. At least some of the time, these three RINOs speak and vote like the Republicans they pretend to be.
