We all know that Lindsey Graham was up to his eyeballs in the scheme to pressure the Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger to toss out legal ballots, so I'm not sure why he wasn't named along with the other 18 co-defendants and Trump last night. He'd better hope there are no indictments coming his way later.
Of course, there was no mention of that fact when he was invited to appear on Fox this Monday to whine about the pending indictments that had not yet been announced in Georgia and talk about how terribly unfair it is that Trump might finally be held accountable for his crimes.
HEGSETH: Talk to us about this case, what you know the case that the government will try to make, or the state of Georgia is going to try to make here.
GRAHAM: I know that Fulton County is the most liberal county, I think, in all of Georgia. The DA there is a Democrat. I know that they're trying to use a RICO statute. I don't know exactly what they're going to come out with.
But I know this, between Manhattan and Fulton County, and DC, the most liberal jurisdictions in the country, it’s very unfair to president Trump. And shouldn’t this really be done by a statewide official? If there’s a crime against the people of Georgia, shouldn’t it be done by somebody like the attorney general?
Are we going to let county prosecutors start prosecuting the president of the United States, the former president of the United States. You open up Pandora’s box with the presidency. This whole exercise of allowing a county prosecutor to go after a former president of the United States will do a lot of damage to the presidency itself over time.
To my Democratic friends, be careful what you wish for.
Yeah, be careful. If we hold one president accountable for his crimes, we might have to hold every president who commits crimes while in office accountable as well. How terrible would that be? Which was followed by more whining about poor Trump and his legal bills. No mention that he's bilking his supporters to pay his lawyers.
HEGSETH: Yeah, play this forward. How do you run for president in 2024 moving between court houses in New York City and Washington DC and Florida and Atlanta?
GRAHAM: He's spending more money on lawyer fees than he is running for office. January the 6th, I was there, I saw it. He was impeached over it. The American people can decide whether they want him to be president or not.
This should be decided at the ballot box, not at a bunch of liberal jurisdictions trying to put the man in jail. They are weaponizing the law in this country. They're trying to take Donald Trump down, and this is setting a bad precedent, and what I fear is that you're changing the way the game is played in America, and there's no going back.
We're in for a very hard time if this becomes the norm.
I love Adam Parkhomenko's response to this:
