Posted on 01/08/2021 1:01:40 PM PST by RandFan
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) was harassed at an airport in Washington, D.C., on Friday, a day after Congress formally tallied President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College win.
Multiple videos posted to social media on Friday show Graham, who has been among President Trump's most vocal Senate supporters, being followed through an airport and being heckled as a "traitor."
Graham was buffered from the group by uniformed law enforcement as well as a security detail. A spokesperson for Graham declined to weigh in, saying that they don't comment on security issues.
The group, many of whom were filming the incident, appeared to be Trump supporters who believe conspiracy theories about the election. Trump has claimed for weeks that the election was "rigged," despite losing dozens of legal challenges and election experts dismissing claims of fraud.
At one point members of the group yell "audit the vote" and "you know it was rigged," in reference to the presidential election, and call him a "piece of shit."
Members of the group who followed and heckled Graham through the airport also include known supporters of QAnon, a baseless conspiracy theory that asserts that a group of Satan-worshipping, child-molesting Democrats and deep-state government officials has global control, and Trump is trying to expose them.
The confrontation comes a day after Congress tallied Biden's win, a process that was delayed for hours after rioters overtook the Capitol, forcing lawmakers to move to secure locations as the mob vandalized leadership offices.
Graham has been one of Trump's most vocal supporters in the Senate since 2017, but came out against challenging the election results through Congress. The effort was guaranteed to fall short regardless because a majority of both the House and Senate is required to successfully challenge a state's Electoral College vote.
Graham, speaking on the Senate floor late Wednesday, said "enough is enough."
"Trump and I, we had a hell of a journey. I hate it being this way ... All I can say is count me out. Enough is enough ... We've got to end it," Graham said, referring to the fight over the election results.
“The group, many of whom were filming the incident, appeared to be Trump supporters who believe conspiracy theories about the election.”
Yep...80,000,000 are wrong.
Are you kidding me?
It’s always been “Of the Lawyers, By the Lawyers and for the Lawyers”
I agree. A significant portion of the base will never vote for a Republican again. Even if its only 25%, Republicans will never win another election again.
I’m watching the video. Why aren’t the police stopping folks from touching Lindsay. So wrong....those are NOT Trump people.
They are ALL a bunch of lying perverts and queers!!
...or ‘Of K Street, By K Street, and for K Street’. :-)
Yes, Hannity will prop him up and no, I won't tune in. I'd rather drink bleach.
More lawyers.
Give ‘em all the old Maxine Waters treatment.
Piece of dog crap
“Actual Title:
“Graham harassed at airport after opposing Electoral College challenges”
How do you suppose it got changed like that?”
His boy toy prefers his first name?
ROFL
MAO
Hope they had their masks on and were social distancing...otherwise they were terrorists to the elites.
Do it to all of them.
This should occur to them every day for the rest of their lives. Why were at, go after their families to, they do to our side.
Boo who hoo, he got yelled at.
Limpsey has been all talk and no action. He failed to follow through in the Russia investigation with any consequence. He was a McCain suck buddy. There is no doubt in my he is up to his eyebrows in corruption and could not allow Trump to stay in office
yup...... done with GOP, voting for them has gotten us what we have today
what planet did you fall off of, of course we the people have a god given right to do this, they don’t listen, then need to be afraid of us
Booh, hoo,hoo, he got yelled at. Big deal.
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