- Lindsey Graham suggested that Kamala Harris could be charged with a future House controlled by the Republican Party.
- “We have opened the Pandora’s box for future presidents,” he said.
- Graham voted for the ex-president’s acquittal in his second impeachment trial.
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Republican Senator Lindsey Graham suggested on Sunday that Vice President Kamala Harris could be impeached in a future Republican-controlled House after former President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial for “inciting insurrection”.
During an appearance on Fox News Sunday, Graham sharply criticized the trial record, calling it a “joke”, before turning to Harris, a former United States senator from California who has been in his new position for less than a year. one month.
Graham, who was one of 43 Republican senators who voted to absolve the former president on Saturday said “the case presented to the Senate by House managers was based on rumors after rumors combined with media reports.”
“We opened Pandora’s box for future presidents,” Graham express on Fox News. “If you use this model, I don’t know how Kamala Harris doesn’t get impeached if Republicans take over the House because it really saved the hooligans and one of the hooligans came back out and broke someone’s head. We opened Pandora’s box here and I’m sad for the country. “
—Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 14, 2021
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Graham is making an unfounded connection between Harris’ support for the Minnesota Freedom Fund, a non-profit organization that helps low-income people who need money to post bail, and the unrest that occurred in the state after the assassination of George Floyd in Minneapolis last year.
After Harris He asked his Twitter followers “to help bail out those protesting in Minnesota,” Trump and Republicans like Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas tried to confuse peaceful protesters fighting for racial justice with those who were actually protesting on the streets.
According to The Washington Post, few of the protesters really needed help from the Minnesota Freedom Fund, and about 92% of those accused during the protests were not required to post bail.