Lindsey Graham just crossed a line in the Donald Trump probe – and may have increased his own criminal exposure
Donald Trump keeps making increasingly thinly veiled threats of inciting retaliatory violence if he’s indicted and arrested. As we pointed out earlier this evening, if Trump wants to go that route, it’s not going to work out well for him. If anything, it’ll merely help demonstrate Trump’s criminal intent to a trial jury.
Now Lindsey Graham has gone and made things far uglier. Graham appeared on Fox News and insisted that there will be “riots in the streets” if Trump is indicted. This would be an inappropriate thing for anyone to say, let alone someone with the power and influence of a sitting United States Senator. But it’s actually far worse than that.
The Fulton County District Attorney is criminally investigating Donald Trump and Lindsey Graham as alleged co-conspirators in the criminal plot to overthrow the 2020 election results in Georgia. Moreover, Trump and Graham both know they’re being investigated for this; Graham is currently fighting a court battle over which questions he’ll have to answer to the special grand jury.
When Graham made his remark about “riots in the streets” if Trump is indicted, he was talking about the Trump classified document espionage scandal. But that doesn’t really matter. Graham knows that he and Trump are considered co-conspirators in another ongoing criminal probe. So Graham isn’t just trying to incite violence here; he’s trying to obstruct a criminal investigation into one of his own co-conspirators.
This won’t go well for Lindsey Graham. He’s already struggling to convince a judge to give him any sort of concessions when it comes to his upcoming testimony in the Fulton County probe. And now he’s trying to obstruct a separate criminal investigation into one of his co-conspirators in the Fulton County probe. This is only going to increase Graham’s criminal exposure.
