Posted on 01/12/2021 5:54:07 PM PST by RandFan
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) says that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) "screamed" at an officer for not doing "enough" to protect senators as the U.S. Capitol was being breached last week.
Brown shared the detail during an interview with MSNBC's Ari Melber on Monday.
“I heard when the 75 senators were confined in a room with about 75 staff people, Lindsey Graham with his mask off started screaming at one of the officers — I think it was one of the captains — saying, ‘How come you didn’t protect us? It’s doing your job,' ” Brown said of the account.
"He was screaming at an officer,” Brown added later. “He had his mask off screaming at this officer from 5 feet away — I was maybe 10 feet on the other side — that the officer, the police, didn't do enough to protect us."
A spokesperson for Graham's office told The Hill that he was familiar with Graham "letting the sergeant-at-arms know his thoughts" but wasn't aware of other comments. Brown's office did not provide any additional information.
Brown knocked Graham and other GOP senators in the interview, during which he was asked if he felt Republicans were afraid of political backlash from some of President Trump’s supporters.
“This is the same Lindsey Graham that for five years — or for four years, he didn’t do it in the beginning — defended and argued for and encouraged and aided and abetted this president and all of his followers," the Democratic senator said.
The account comes as lawmakers vow to investigate how rioters were able to breach the Capitol in the first major attack on the building in over 200 years.
Graham backed a pledge from Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) to fire Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Michael Stenger when Democrats take over the upper chamber. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) asked for Stenger’s resignation last Thursday.
Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund is also resigning later this month following the riot, and House Sergeant-at-Arms Paul Irving is also resigning.
Oh just shut up lindsey. You protesteth much!
Miss Lindsey was so scared she probably started her period early. (Hate when that happens.)
I cannot believe people actually think a democrat is telling the truth about anything! lol
Anyone who believes Sharod Brown is an idiot. The Democrats right now want to make republicans in congress, as well as those in ‘flyover country,’ feel isolated and betrayed by their own side. Don’t fall for the bait they are using to set conservative against conservative, it is the same tactic the Democrats have successfully used to set American against American based on anger over race.
I’m no particular fan of Lindsay but it is absolutely ridiculous for Repubs to be attacking him now based on what a wacko radical Democrat says about him. Every Democrat and every institution in America is attacking us and here we are attacking our own.
Do you think an ahole like Sherrod Brown is going to put a positive slant to what he may have said. He is a liar that will use any crisis to advantage.
Non gendered fagqueen
I wonder how this brave war hawk would have reacted if they were illegal aliens?
Graham’s office did not deny it
Weren’t the proceedings being recorded? For posterity, you know.
Once Trump and his family fly out, may God smite that entire Satanic town right off the map as He did with Sodom and Gammorah.
The Congresscritters should give a feel to all their body parts. Are they all there? Are they functional? Are they still breathing? Then the Capitol cops did their job. I’m totally sick at the very low quality of people holding the positions of Congresscritter, with very few exceptions. I left messages of praise for Cruz and Hawley today, as well as write an email to Trump, thanking him for all the good he’s done for us and telling him he has my support. I hope that gives him a bit of cheer today.
Lindsey is not one of our own, not anymore. He’s the enemy just like any other Rat.
OMG HE HAD HIS MASK OFF!!!!
This guy is the biggest pansy on Capitol Hill.
You can see him dressing as a woman to get on the Titanic elevator to the basement secure room.
Karma Karma Karma Karma Karma Chameleon
You come and go
You come and go...
Didn’t do enough to protect?
Senators were injured, killed?
I missed that.
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