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, really? Tell us more about this concept, Linda.
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Graham invited one of the Bernstein hags into the WH to write a book. They told Trump together they were interested in putting a positive spin on his Presidency.
Timed for just before the Election.
If one doesn’t know what Lindsey Graham is by now, then it must be hard going through life like that.
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He was fist-bumping Kamala in Covid Crisis times!
He’s a POS. He’s only there because he decided he could do more damage from the inside.
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Isn’t Linda supposed to be protecting the Constitution?
Linda needs to be fired for Dereliction of Duty.
So, these so called leaders that sat on their collective asses all summer watching businesses looted and shutdown, seeing police attacked, and citizens standing in their own yard holding a gun taunted by a prosecutor and other government officials, were frightened, but all the forementioned were supposed to suck it up and take it whatever was dished out to them.
I would say we voted em in so we get what we get. But we cant even be certain we voted em in anymore.. Regardless they are not leaders in the American mold to be sure.
These people think they are royalty. For God’s sake, learn to protect yourself and stop being afraid of your constituents. DC is trapped in a hysterical bubble where they are the center of the universe. Why do they need 10K NG to protect the streets from Joe’s basement inauguration? No one wants to travel to that cesspool any more.
These little Lord Fauntelroys are perfectly happy when police withdraw from rioters burning down businesses, homes, police stations, but if some of the smelly rabble starts making no use outside their doors, they scream and stomp.
What a fruit.
Six House Republicans on Tuesday introduced a resolution to censure President Trump over his role in stoking last week’s violent riots at the U.S. Capitol and efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
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Lindsey wanted the Police to kill more Trump voters.
Stupid [bleep].
“I heard when the 75 senators were confined in a room ....”
So Linda “heard” about this event. But then she goes into quite a bit of detail about it. Liar.
Careful not to insult limp-wristed school girls ! Jk 😆
Some of them are more courageous than our esteemed leaders!
Pussito.
“Thank You very much, I’ll be here all night”
100%
somebody get that boy some pearls to clutch
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