Sen. Lindsey Graham has warned Republicans could take action to accuse Vice President Kamala Harris, arguing that former President Donald Trump’s accusation in the Senate has opened due to the Capitol riots ‘Pandora’s Box’. ‘
The Republican of South Carolina spoke a single day after the Senate voted 57-43 to acquit the former president on a single charge of ‘incitement to rebellion’ over ‘Fox News Sunday’, on a single charge of ‘incitement to insurrection’, and the Republican of South Carolina argued that the vice president’s support for a fund that saved the protesters during the summer could she be liable for the same punishment.
“And if you use this model, I do not know how Kamala Harris will not be accused if the Republicans take over the House,” Graham said.
‘Because she actually saved rioters and one of the rioters went back to the streets and broke someone’s head. So we opened Pandora’s Box here and I’m sad for the country? ‘
Graham referred to Harris’ support for the Minnesota Freedom Fund before becoming President Biden’s running mate, which helped protesters post bail.
“If you can do that, you should join the @MNFreedomFund now to help bail out those who are protesting on the ground in Minnesota,” she said on Twitter in June.
But the fund, which opposes the concept of cash bail, was used to ensure the relief of a number of convicted violent criminals as well as protesters during the summer who rallied against the death of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers.
A Fox News report found that among the people rescued by the MFF was a suspect who shot at police, a twice convicted sex offender and a woman accused of dating a friend. killed.
However, it was not clear who allegedly broke someone’s head.
Graham also spoke about the possibility of accusing Harris in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity earlier this month, when he tried to discourage Democrats from calling witnesses in Trump’s indictment, pointing out that it would prolong the proceedings. and Harris would imply.
“If you’re going to pursue it and you want to start calling witnesses, and you want to get this thing out, it would be fair to have Kamala Harris’ band play where she’s sponsoring people out of jail,” Graham said.
“What more can you do to incite future violence than to pay bail to the people who broke into the stores and beat the police,” Graham added. ‘How is it not future violence? Be careful what you want for my Democratic colleagues, be careful what you want. ”
During the trial, T rump’s legal team played a series of videos in defense of Trump showing a number of Democrats urging followers to ‘fight’, including Harris, to state their case that the former’s comments president during a rally of supporters before the storm of the Capitol did not incite the crowd.
The Senate acquitted Trump of voting the riot 57-43, which was far less than the margin of 67 votes needed to convict.
Graham, who was among the Republicans who voted for acquittal, said the former president may have printed ‘stories about the election that I think are not healthy and not true’, but he does not believe Trump’s words incited the mob do not have.
‘The president is a handful and what happened [at the Capitol] on January 6 was terrible for the country. But he is not to blame for that. “Democrats have been sitting on the sidelines watching the country burn down for a year and a half and not saying a damn word, and most Republicans are tired of the hypocrisy,” Graham said.
He also said he spoke to Trump on Saturday night, who assured him he wanted to return to fight for Republicans to regain their majority in the Senate and House.