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Lindsey Graham offered up what has become the standard Republican response to Trump’s prosecution. Unlike Trump, and most of the party’s voters, Graham did not insist Trump had legitimately won the 2020 election. Instead, he argued on Fox News that it is wrong to criminalize Trump’s attempt to secure an unelected second term. “This should be decided at the ballot box and not in a bunch of liberal jurisdictions trying to put the man in jail,” he complained. “They’re weaponizing the law.”
Worse, he predicted, the successful use of a state prosecution would unleash copycat tactics on the right. “This is setting a bad precedent,” continued Graham, “and what I fear is, you’re changing the game in America and there’s no going back. We’re in for a very hard time if this becomes the norm.”
We already decided this at the ballot box. And during trump’s impeachments, you said they should be decided in the courts.
Here we are.
“You can’t indict a sitting president, that’s what impeachment is for.”
“You can’t impeach a sitting president, that’s what the election is for.”
“You can’t impeach the president again now that he’s lost the election, that’s what the justice system is for.”
“You can’t indict someone running for president, that’s what the next election is for.”
“You can’t nominate a Supreme Court Justice during an election”
Followed quickly by “of course you can nominate a Supreme Court Justice during an election.”