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Ramon Antonio Vargas

Lindsey Graham contradicts Trump by saying January 6 investigators should not go to jail

Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina.
Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina. Photograph: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images

US senator Lindsey Graham has said officials who investigated Donald Trump supporters’ deadly attack on the US Capitol in 2021 should not be imprisoned – despite what his fellow Republican has argued in advance of his second presidency.

During an interview Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press, show host Kristen Welker asked Graham whether he agreed with Trump’s assertion on the program seven days earlier that those involved in the investigation of the January 6 Capitol attack “should go to jail”.

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