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McClatchy Washington Bureau
McClatchy Washington Bureau
National
Emma Dumain

Impeaching Trump over phone call with Ukraine leader would be 'insane,' Lindsey Graham says

WASHINGTON _ U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham delivered unequivocal support for President Donald Trump less than an hour after the White House released the rough transcript of a phone call congressional Democrats say could be grounds for impeachment.

Speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill on Wednesday morning, the South Carolina Republican announced that he had read the five-page transcript between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on July 25 _ and saw no evidence of misconduct.

"From my point of view, to impeach any president over a phone call like this would be insane," said Graham, who also shared that he had spoken to Trump earlier in the day to "applaud" him for releasing the document.

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