Analysis: Even for Lindsey Graham, this was over the top. His stunningly fact-free, pro-Trump spin of the Mueller report.
By Amber Phillips Amber Phillips Reporter for The Fix covering Congress, statehouses Email Bio Follow May 1 at 12:12 PM There’s shading the truth to suit your message, and then there’s what Sen. Lindsey O. Graham just did: completely forsaking the facts to play politics.
Instead, in his opening statement, Graham adopted a Trumpian-like worldview in which the president could do no wrong. Graham completely mischaracterized special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report and how damaging it was for Trump. He misstated key facts. He ignored reality and raised conspiracy theories about how the Russian probe got started in the first place.
The conclusion that Congress may apply the obstruction laws to the President’s corrupt exercise of the powers of office accords with our constitutional system of checks and balances and the principle that no person is above the law.Graham’s attempt to summarize the Mueller report’s findings is misleading, at best. The report did not assess whether there was collusion, because collusion isn’t a legal term.
Graham spent a significant portion of his limited time looking back at the origins of the Russia probe. Trump and his conservative allies have long tried to argue that the probe was put together on false pretenses, despite the rigorous protocols in place to avoid such politicization of the FBI, most especially in how agents get warrants to surveil people.
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